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Originally Posted by RWebb
well worth it for Loti, for those interested in sport cars, materials, and engineers you'd allow to test your extrusions to failure
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The adhesive bonding was pretty cool.
Early in the development they put a few rivets in strategic places to supplement the bonding strength but I did not pick up if they continued that into production.
I can't wrap my head around how light they are.
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An innovative combination of adhesive and rivets is used to join the chassis of the new Lotus Elise which is made primarily from aluminum extrusions. The bonding technique was developed by the UK sports car company in partnership with Ciba Polymers of Switzerland and Hydro Aluminium, of Denmark.
http://www.sandsmuseum.com/cars/elise/information/technical/asauto.html