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| December 15, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Matt Davis

]]]]]] At this point in its history (i.e., as used on the federal Elise), the chassis goes by the codename 121 and has not altered a lot since the dawn of the Lotus Elise Series 1 at the 1995 Frankfurt motor show. The secret is in the bonded aluminum-actually bonded and then riveted at key stress points using self-sealing fasteners manufactured by EJOT in Germany.

Aluminum is a sensitive material given to heat distortion when welded, and bonding solves this problem for a small-scale maker like Lotus (as it does, indeed, for Panoz). Originally supplied by Hydro Aluminum Automotive Struc-tures out of ...

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