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Re: [a/s] Towing Question Can-Am
And that in turn was driven by the pressure to reduce fuel consumption ...
reduce vehicle weight and, other things being equal, you reduce fuel
consumption. Can use a smaller, lighter, higher-revving and more highly
stressed European style (or Japanese style) engine.
Before the general availability of computer design and computer-controlled
robotic manufacturing processes, unibodies were tricky and expensive to
fabricate, found in military aircraft and racing cars ... when the latter
weren't built on a space frame, remember the Maserati GP cars?
John
Susi and John Burchard
Tepe Gawra Salukis
saluqi@ix.netcom.com