Audi, after years of research with Alcoa, presents the Audi Space Frame concept made primarily of aluminum at the Frankfurt auto show on Sept. 9, 1993. Audi chief Ferdinand Piëch in 1982 formed an ...

Fisker will display the aluminium space frame underpinning its upcoming Karma premium plug-in hybrid electric vehicle at the Geneva show next month. It claims the frame "incorporates new levels of ...

Most modern cars are built these days with a plain ol' unibody chassis. That means the car has a steel (sometimes aluminum) space frame that's spot-welded together, and then the body is bolted or ...