Sentences with phrase «tubular spaceframe»

The chassis was a tubular spaceframe based on the Dino 246, but was stretched for a 2,550.20 mm (100.4 in)[2] wheelbase to make room for the second row of seats.

Instead of the 300 SL's expensive purpose - built W198 tubular spaceframe the 190 SL rode on a shortened monocoque R121 platform modified from the W121 small saloon.

So the speed is there, and so is a tubular spaceframe and body made entirely of carbon - fiber / composite materials.

As most of Gen Y doesn't care about cars, «we concentrated on the small segment that does like them,» says Chris LaMance, who worked on several parts of the car and was project manager for the tubular spaceframe.

When the sedan's doors are open, the six bucket seats, tubular spaceframe and floorpan are visible.

The 908 was built around a spindly alloy tubular spaceframe, which the bodywork wraps like an eggshell, only thinner.

Designed in 1957 as a simple and affordable sports car, the Lotus Seven featured a tubular spaceframe chassis, aluminium body panels, a live rear axle, drum brakes and a 1 - litre four - cylinder engine from the Ford 100E saloon.

To build a car for the new regulations would mark a major departure for the engineers at Weissach: this new Group C machine would use an aluminium tub structure, not the familiar tubular spaceframe that had been the preferred method since the 906.

Not exact matches

Underneath the Radical RXC there's a new high - tensile, laser - cut tubular steel spaceframe, while the body is designed in - house and riffs on Peugeot's 908 Le Mans racers.

In a (tubular) spaceframe chassis, the suspension, engine, and body panels are attached to a three - dimensional skeletal frame of tubes, and the body panels have little or no structural function.