British Engineering Firm offers Lightweight race auto design to production cars.

[G. David Felt]

Seems a British racing car company has patented a new production process that will allow auto companies to dump weight by using race car or body-in-white production to enhance a cars efficiency. With electric auto's having a weight increase due to batteries, this company believes this is the future. seats are 30% lighter than standard seats and just as comfortable and even safer.

Better yet is that they see the average auto having a power to weight ratio of 8.5 lbs per horsepower. The company goes onto say that you could have a modern auto that would weight about 1,874 lbs, use a 220 hp 1.5 L 4-cylinder engine to achieve their power to weight statement.

The whole body-in-white design is taking the best of the production world with the best of the racing world so that you end up with an ultra lite carbon fiber reinforced body structure paired to high strength aluminum pan and ribbing.

Welcome to the iStream car as the British race car company calls their new mass produced low carbon vehicle.

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