Sentences with phrase «body rigidity»

"Body rigidity" refers to a state where a person's muscles or joints are very stiff and inflexible, making it difficult for them to move their body freely. Full definition
A new lower body structure, designed to incorporate the battery pack, also manages to increase body rigidity by ten percent.
Often, when an automaker takes the roof off of a car, it improves driving pleasure but makes the car itself ostensibly worse due to a decrease in body rigidity.
A second factor is the high body rigidity — it forms the basis for the top quality feel and the sporty handling.
These savings, along with the implementation of the new V6 engine and enhanced body rigidity, allow for a more dynamic driving experience.
Through the enhancement of body rigidity, less road noise reaches the interior of the car.
It uses a fully enclosed cross brace roof construction that provides greater body rigidity.
This boosts body rigidity by more than 20 per cent and reduces the weight of base chassis, the company claims.
The goal of obtaining emotional driving dynamics has been achieved by ensuring exceptional body rigidity and careful management of the inertia specifications (detailed in the section below).
For without body rigidity, there is no agility.
As well as aiding body rigidity in the corners, it also helps improve occupant protection in the event of a crash.
This material is strategically placed to help increase body rigidity, offering you a smooth ride every time you get behind the wheel.
Honda claims improved body rigidity with increased use of high - strength and ultra-high-strength steel while achieving a 31 - kilogram weight reduction in the sedan despite it being bigger that its predecessor.
It messes with body rigidity, slows you down, and generally makes the car worse at laying quick laps.
Braces on the front struts aid in improving overall body rigidity.
For 2016, development work on the ninth - generation Accord sedan body has centered on increased rear body rigidity in order to significantly improve both ride quality and handling.
Its unique body architecture, featuring two fully - boxed longitudinal frame rails and seven high strength steel cross members in a unitized body construction delivers vastly superior body rigidity and provides the foundation for the Ridgeline's spacious interior cabin and bed, outstanding safety performance and class - leading ride and handling performance.
In 2008 November, Mazda engineers improved the RX - 8 body rigidity through the addition of structural reinforcements, by adding a trapezoidal shock tower brace and enhancing the local rigidity of the front suspension tower areas.
As well as the performance - enhancing parts, Alfa Romeo claims its Stelvio QV optimum 50:50 weight distribution, excellent power - to - weight ratio and class - leading body rigidity were all contributing factors in setting the lap record.
Ride comfort, something that previous generations are notorious of, have been revised through added body rigidity and a now available Adaptive Variable Suspension (AVS).
Unlike traditional truck offerings which utilize body - on - frame construction, the 2017 Ridgeline's unitized body construction provides for vastly superior torsional body rigidity with lower weight, which directly benefits driving performance, fuel efficiency and efficient interior packaging.
In a cabriolet, the lack of a roof often results in reduced body rigidity.
Taking the roof off your hardcore drivers» car never really makes sense, compromising body rigidity and adding weight in the pursuit of wind - in - your - hair driving just doesn't seem worth it.
With «van - like recirculating ball steering», a «lumpy ride» and «less than entirely convincing body rigidity», you shouldn't go into an SLK32 purchase expecting a richly detailed, Boxster - like sports car experience.
The doors have additional spot welds to provide better body rigidity.
As with the US - spec model, the 2019 Lexus ES for Europe is built on the new Global Architecture - K (GA - K) front - wheel - drive platform, which is said to offer «excellent body rigidity and design freedom,» as well as improved driving performance, more interior room, enhanced refinement, and better safety than its predecessor.
Redeveloped suspension cross members not only enhance body rigidity locally but also improve it overall since the body mount positions were optimized in the process.
Higher local body rigidity and reinforced suspension arm mounts provide outstanding controllability.
Extra body rigidity may also pay safety dividends, as the hot stamped and 19 percent high - tensile steel — compared to last year's 3 percent — add to the crash cage's integrity.
An X-type upper cowl structure helps provide front body rigidity for suspension mounting.
Global body rigidity is increased 38.3 percent, directly benefiting the RDX's handling response and precision.
Body The 2016 Civic Sedan's new powertrains and sophisticated chassis design are underpinned by its entirely new body construction, where engineers went deeper in the study of dynamic body rigidity to realize an ultra-rigid platform architecture that serves as the foundation for its more sophisticated chassis design, its class - leading collision performance, and its powerful and fuel - efficient powertrains.
Localized body rigidity in key areas, especially at suspension and subframe mounting points is dramatically improved.
During this type of seizure, the dog typically experiences full - body rigidity along with convulsions.
Stiffening elements have been incorporated in the front and rear structures to ensure body rigidity.
Improved Body Rigidity Compared to the previous Civic generation, the new 2016 Civic Sedan body's global bending rigidity increases 19 percent and its torsional rigidity increases 23 percent.
The higher body rigidity with improved MacPherson strut in front and H Type torso beam suspension in the rear offers solid road handling and supple ride feeling.
Genesis says (let's get used to referring to this as a brand name) the G90's overall body rigidity has been increased to a point 6 - percent higher than that of the Mercedes S550, because of 52 - percent advanced high - strength steel, three times the amount used in the old car, and because of 650 feet of advanced structural adhesives.
Also updated is what's under the skin, and body rigidity compared to the former Hybrid is stiffer thanks to high - strength steel increased from 21 percent of the 2015's chassis to now 51 percent.
Subaru claims the new chassis increases body rigidity by as much as 70 per cent over the old car.
A new rear strut brace delivers greater body rigidity and suspension precision.
To bring it up to date there's twice as much high - strength steel used in its construction, helping boost body rigidity by around 20 per cent and cut body - in - white (without engine and ancillaries) by 28 kg.
Labeled as an «Urban Explorer» in the press release, the UX is the first Lexus to be built on the new GA - C global architecture that helps the crossover achieve the lowest center of gravity in its class and «exceptional body rigidity,» according to the automaker.
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