ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAKE LINGEMAN: I have several complaints about the Prius C, but none have to do
with the sheetmetal.
The floor mats are held in place with doorsill plates that attach to the floor
with sheetmetal screws.
Starting
with the sheetmetal, Nissan made a handful of changes concerning the look and the aerodynamics of the new GT - R.
Working
with the sheetmetal Unitbody structure is easy from a drilling standpoint, but extra care is needed when modifying the suspension such as we are.
Damaged springs can often be repaired
with sheetmetal bands to tie them together.
A full - featured economy subcompact built by General Motors Daewoo in Korea, the Aveo is a competently - designed vehicle
with sheetmetal that blends smoothly together to present a neat package.
Cat - like headlights mount flush
with sheetmetal and feature «J - Blade» LED daytime running lights.
Squeeze the Velar's remote and its door handles deploy from a flush fit
with the sheetmetal.
Where the angled rear windshield creates an acute angle
with sheetmetal, full - width taillights reprise the same rectangle - and - triangles shape as the headlights and front grille.
Not exact matches
In 1905 Otto and Adolf Stoelting (sons of German immigrants) went into business
with two partners, selling hardware and operating a
sheetmetal shop (fabricating tanks for farmers and cheesemakers).
Taken to the extreme, one could imagine a monolithic assembly plant in China or India spitting out front - wheel - drive cars and crossover / utilities for all the commodity brands in the world,
with only
sheetmetal and interior trim variations among the myriad brands.
Vmotion 2.0 has a whole lot of Maxima in it,
with sharp
sheetmetal creases all over, and the now - requisite «floating» c - pillar.
The rest of the
sheetmetal matches the stylish Buick Encore,
with short overhangs, tasteful creases, flared fenders, and five - spoke wheels.
While the 86 and BRZ share much of their
sheetmetal and the Subaru's pancake four, the 124 Spider is built in Mazda's Hiroshima plant, though
with its own distinct
sheetmetal and
with Fiat engines shipped from Italy.
The custom creation's
sheetmetal is decked
with hundreds of Christmas lights, a pair of antlers, and strobing red and green LEDs in the engine bay.
The Escalade comes
with crisp new
sheetmetal, a much - improved interior, a lower roofline, and fold - flat rear seats.
Befitting its conventional CUV - style
sheetmetal, it has a familiar plastic - y but feature - laden interior and standard Kia center stack touchscreen
with manual button controls.
While the Trax's new nose is the most obvious
sheetmetal change, the crossover also comes
with a new 18 - inch wheel design, new lower front and rear fascias, and resculpted taillamp lenses.
The chrome - faced prow is more three - dimensional, beautifully flushed into the Ghost's
sheetmetal (the hood and the windshield frame are aluminum), but it's still an imposing whack of shine leading the charge, topped as always
with the flying lady.
With all due respect to our esteemed colleague executive editor Todd Lassa, who'd rather roll down Woodward during the Dream Cruise, given the location, multitude of events, and diversity of
sheetmetal, Pebble Beach is just as good if not better.
The Buick Avista was one of the brightest stars of the 2016 Detroit auto show,
with its gorgeous
sheetmetal wrapped around General Motors» well - regarded Alpha chassis and a 400 - hp twin - turbo engine.
The new car receives revised front and rear clips, along
with restyled headlamps, new taillamps, and a tweaked grille, but most other exterior
sheetmetal is left essentially untouched.
It will not be easy, as an all - new 3 - Series arrives about the same time
with fresh
sheetmetal, state - of - the - art engines and handling that is expected to uphold the legacy of the «ultimate driving machine.»
With bold, expressive
sheetmetal, the production 2017 Infiniti Q30 lives up to the look of the 2013 concept that presaged this model.
The staff at Leipzig numbers about 1150 people currently, and will continue to grow through 2014,
with jobs including operators, staff for ultrasonic testing,
sheetmetal forming positions, and more.
Despite their similar shapes, the AMG GT four - door is bigger than the new CLS,
with completely different
sheetmetal from the Panamericana - style nose, back.
The CX - 9's curved and angled
sheetmetal helps reduce its visual bulk, but it also compromises the view out the back, making the optional rearview camera a virtual necessity, as is often the case
with big crossovers and SUVs.
Whichever brand you're considering, a product cycle typically means all - new
sheetmetal and interiors, often
with reworked engines — adding, say, direct injection or some other emerging technology.
Chevy gets stylish The Suburban and the smaller Tahoe get updated exterior styling,
with fresh
sheetmetal not shared
with their pickup truck relatives.
As much as this segment is starting to feel like all the models are just one very competent, excellent - handling model but
with different
sheetmetal, the Bimmer stands out.
Considering how fast compact and midsize sedans are giving way to smaller XUVs in this market, I can imagine one or two North American Fair Trade Agreement assembly plants spitting out several brands using a single platform, but
with unique
sheetmetal and interior designs.
The changes start
with almost all - new
sheetmetal, save for the roof and doors.
But the 2015 Sonata still manages to move the brand's needle forward,
with an even richer near - premium interior and handsome, if more subdued,
sheetmetal.
And yet he's also drawn to the Mustang, which recalls the 1960s
with every crease in its
sheetmetal.
Now coming up on the six - year mark, the R - class might be expected to undergo a full redesign, but instead the 2011 model is getting new
sheetmetal only from the A-pillar forward, along
with minor equipment revisions, and carryover powertrains.
With money a finite resource for most shoppers, buying a new car sometimes comes down to weighing dollars against
sheetmetal.
Rather,
sheetmetal seems to hug, stretch, and bulge over its underpinnings and wheel edges
with purposefulness: think Frank Gehry, not Frank Lloyd Wright.
Expect a new interior to go along
with made - to - measure
sheetmetal, complete
with top - notch ergonomics and neat touches such as Audi's trademark eyeball vents and its new virtual cockpit display.
Model - year 2012 brought an all - new Camry,
with new
sheetmetal and a new interior for all models.
Rather, the single glass piece stretches from just in front of the driver's head to right before the rear passengers,
with the back third of the roof or so made of
sheetmetal, reducing the amount of extra weight.
Volkswagen says the updates to the Passat will be more involved than a mild refresh,
with new
sheetmetal, new head - and taillights, and new wheels.
Noteworthy: BMW continues to emerge from the visual nightmare of its «flame surface» styling,
with the 5 - series being the latest beneficiary of skillfully resculpted
sheetmetal, which is laid over a 3.2 - inch - longer wheelbase.
I'm sure these results were amplified by the shock of seeing a sexy silver Porsche race through the isolated back corners of farm country, but I'm also sure the Boxster's new
sheetmetal has something to do
with it.
The striking one - off stirred the internet
with its Bond villain
sheetmetal and improbably swoopy silhouette, but the effect in person was even more dramatic.
Mike even joked — we think it was a joke, anyway — about misting the car
with hairspray before they displayed it at the Grand National Roadster Show — where we first saw it, in the Suede Palace — so passersby wouldn't rub off the dirt accumulated on the
sheetmetal's crusty surface.
The coupe will ride on a shortened wheelbase and feature new
sheetmetal topped
with a glass roof.
The extra cash buys a handful of refinements over the sportier model: The GT gains a transparent roof, which merges
with a restyled tail section that McLaren smoothed out to a flush expanse of glass and
sheetmetal.
Under the
sheetmetal, the race car inspiration continues,
with the GR HV getting a performance hybrid system that trickled down from the TS050.
Still, even
with an additional 4.3 - inches of
sheetmetal, the L is the smallest of the three tri-row SUVs in Lexus» arsenal.
Only a steering column and the thin
sheetmetal that is the Bus» front end separates me from whatever it might collide
with.