Curt Tamandl will tell you that chassis engineering for Class 8 tractors has become a very complex balancing act, largely because of the demands being placed on what he calls the critical of the ...

- Automotive chassis refers to the skeletal frame or structure of an automobile over which automotive parts and components and engines are placed. Designed to be lightweight, ductile and aerodynamic, ...

The Lotus Esprit V8 has never traded on brute numbers alone, yet it consistently delivers performance and drama that feel far ...

Structure is everything. Lessons learned from the C5, C6 and C7 Corvettes is that the stiffer the chassis, the better the suspension can be tuned for improved handling. The C1 to C4 chassis were fine ...

DETROIT -- Automakers are facing tougher government regulations for fuel economy, and one former Ford and Chrysler executive says he has a solution Chris Theodore, best known for his work on the Ford ...

Everyone remembers the DeLorean DMC-12 for its doors, for its unpainted body, for the movie. But it in and of itself was an interesting car design, which you can see pretty well when you lift the ...

Ex-Chrysler and Ford engineering titan Chris Theodore unveiled a chassis at the SAE World Congress in Detroit last week that he says will cut vehicle weight and manufacturing costs and make electric ...

Chris Theodore remembers the very frame in the 1966 Frankenheimer epic "Grand Prix" that inspired this project. "I saw the Lotus 33 in a front-three-quarter view and thought: That's the car where ...