Depending on the grade, the weight difference between stainless steel and carbon steel of the same thickness is not much of any at all.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What a surprise! The other well known stainless steel car, the Delorean DMC-12, is FAMOUS for being a huge pain in the ass to work on. Dents and dings are tremendous problems, and stainless steel is super heavy.
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Don’t most cars use aluminum as well as carbon steel in their frames, to save on weight?
Strykker@programming.dev 10 months ago
I think the majority just use regular steel. Ford was a talking point when they started using aluminum for the F150 body panels. And then they started running into corrosion issues where the aluminum meets the steel fasteners and frame.
Skwerls@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I doubt this has any stainless in the frame. Really it should be a comparison of stainless vs aluminum and plastic body panels
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Not to mention all of the manual labour it took to make all the panels to fit properly. No 2 delorean were the same