The forthcoming 2019 Ford Expedition is now switched to
a more aluminum architecture, in order to reduce weight.
Not exact matches
All next - gen variants will incorporate
more carbon fiber
architecture and will continue to rely on
aluminum for suspension components, firewalls, and doors, with steel forming the rest of the unibody.
Its
aluminum Ingenium engine line and
aluminum - intensive iQ
architecture are part of this effort, but down the road, the company is looking into even
more innovative methods.
A modest four - cylinder engine packaged in a remarkably lightweight
architecture — composite body panels over an epoxy - bonded
aluminum chassis — made the car far
more significant than any recent Lotus.
Sleeker and even
more stylish than before, the Q7's new
aluminum - intensive
architecture reduces its weight by nearly 500 pounds enhancing fuel efficiency while a new suspension improves ride and handling.
An
aluminum space frame
architecture could help keep the weight down, but that would take even
more time and money to develop.
Compared to the old platform, MRA uses
more aluminum and high - strength steel to cut out weight, reducing it down by 220 pounds compared to the third - gen model's
architecture.