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Originally Posted by Endgame DOAH!!! MY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, I agree with you - the Z could lose some weight. Tough to do with all the safety equipment required these days.
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12-24-2010, 10:42 AM
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 Seriously, I agree with you - the Z could lose some weight. Tough to do with all the safety equipment required these days.
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12-29-2010, 10:05 AM
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This would have allowed them to keep most everything the same, yet shaved a good bit of weight, eliminated door-ding potential mostly, etc. The only thing is crash-ratings, and I am not an automotive engineer so I don't know how changing from aluminum sheet to CF/glass would effect the need to add support beams that werent necessary before, if at all. |
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