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  2. Vehicle frame - Wikipedia

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    Ladder frame pickup truck chassis holds the vehicle's engine, drivetrain, suspension, and wheels The unibody - for the unitized body - is also a form of a frame. A vehicle frame, also historically known as its chassis, is the main supporting structure of a motor vehicle to which all other components are attached, comparable to the skeleton of an organism.

  3. Chassis - Wikipedia

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    The CTC-2 chassis of an RCA CT-100 television. A chassis (US: / ˈ tʃ æ s i /, [1] UK: / ˈ ʃ æ s i /; [2] plural chassis /-i z / from French châssis) is the load-bearing framework of a manufactured object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function.

  4. Glossary of automotive design - Wikipedia

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    Three-box form Alfa Romeo Giulia (Type 105) sedan/saloon Three-box form A categorization based on overall form design using rough rectangle volumes. In the case of the three-box form, there is a "box" delineating a separate volume from the a-pillar forward, a second box comprising the passenger volume, and third box comprising the trunk area—e.g., a Sedan.

  5. List of General Motors platforms - Wikipedia

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    The American-based international automotive conglomerate General Motors (GM) underpins its many vehicle models with various platforms.These platforms are established sets of axles, suspensions, and steering mechanisms which fit various bodies and powertrains from various marques that GM owns.

  6. Chassis configuration - Wikipedia

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    The chassis configuration is a formula that gives information about the wheels of a road vehicle including number of wheels, number of driven wheels and number of steered wheels. A common example is 4x4 .

  7. Chassis cab - Wikipedia

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    A chassis cab, also called a cab chassis or half truck, is a type of vehicle construction, often found in medium duty truck commercial vehicles. Instead of supplying the customer with a factory pre-assembled flatbed , cargo container, or other equipment, the customer is given the vehicle with just chassis rails and a cab .

  8. Pay on production - Wikipedia

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    Pay on production (PoP) is a special build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, where payment is made to a supplier by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) per piece produced on the supplier's own equipment by the OEM's employees.

  9. Vehicle identification number - Wikipedia

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    VIN on a Chinese moped VIN on a 1996 Porsche 993 GT2 VIN visible in the windshield VIN recorded on a Chinese vehicle licence. A vehicle identification number (VIN; also called a chassis number or frame number) is a unique code, including a serial number, used by the automotive industry to identify individual motor vehicles, towed vehicles, motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, as defined by the ...