car "Bodies"?

[Guest]

looking at the icon for the product "Car Bodies" its actually just the frame, because it does not have the exterior panels on it.

Change Car Bodies to> Car Chassis

The Chassis is more accurate of a name for the product, because as it show in the picture, the chassis is only the frame as shown

< Chassis
< Car with panels=body, and yes i know this is the finished car, just a comparison to chassis to paint a picture for what im talking about.

[Guest]

A car body would look too similar to an actual car with the pictures that small and it wouldn't be right to make a car that didn't have doors would it

So they called it a body and made a picture which is of it part way through assembly instead of the finished product. Though I do agree with you.

[Guest]

I agree. The name should be changed.

[Guest]

looking at the icon for the product "Car Bodies" its actually just the frame, because it does not have the exterior panels on it.

Change Car Bodies to> Car Chassis

The Chassis is more accurate of a name for the product, because as it show in the picture, the chassis is only the frame as shown

< Chassis
< Car with panels=body, and yes i know this is the finished car, just a comparison to chassis to paint a picture for what im talking about.

The current name is accurate. Almost all cars manufactured today use what is called a unibody (instead of a traditional frame or Chassis) to provide for the structure of the vehicle. Though, in assembly 'body' usually refers to the body panels (which are not structural), using 'body' to describe the car is not inaccurate.

In addition, Kapilands does not follow the letter of reality perfectly in many areas of product components. For instance, the use of electricity to produce wood - this doesn't make any kind of sense, and yet it is included.

[pearlbay]

So what's correct now? Chassis or body? If body is okay, there is no need to change it, obviously. Can we reach a consensus here?

Cheers,

pearlbay

[Guest]

Chassis makes more sense to me. A "car body" is the shell which contains the side panels. (Plastic/Steel)



Tusah, do you really think everyone uses hand saws to cut wood these days? That is where electricity comes into play. You have to cut the logs to use them.

[Guest]

Chassis makes more sense to me. A "car body" is the shell which contains the side panels. (Plastic/Steel)



Tusah, do you really think everyone uses hand saws to cut wood these days? That is where electricity comes into play. You have to cut the logs to use them.

Azer is right again!

Change it to chassis and the extra 500kg steel needed to make the car could be used for the body panels etc

[Guest]

Chassis makes more sense to me. A "car body" is the shell which contains the side panels. (Plastic/Steel)



Tusah, do you really think everyone uses hand saws to cut wood these days? That is where electricity comes into play. You have to cut the logs to use them.

W.r.t. the wood thing, I have nothing to offer - you make a valid point.

While body may not be 100% accurate, chassis is 100% INACCURATE. No commodity 'car' made today uses a frame (or chassis). To call it such would misrepresent what is being produced. Body is much more accurate than 'frame' or 'chassis.'

[Guest]

but when you compare it to the image, it's a chassis indeed.

maybe Kapi Car Factories still build cars the 'old way'.

[Guest]

but when you compare it to the image, it's a chassis indeed.

maybe Kapi Car Factories still build cars the 'old way'.

Too true actually, that picture is without a doubt a chassis. So we change the picture or the name.... or both.

But I like the idea of changing it to chasis- then it gives a reason for the other random 500kg of steel being needed to make a car.

[Guest]

but when you compare it to the image, it's a chassis indeed.

maybe Kapi Car Factories still build cars the 'old way'.

This is a Frame/Chassis:


This is a unibody:


This image clearly resembles the one on the bottom; a unibody. A unibody looks very similar to the 'body-shape' of a car; this is because automakers have found that this 'roll cage' construction is safer, cheaper and serves as a superior platform as compared with a frame, on which rests the body.

[Guest]

That first chassis is a truck chassis, not a car. Just saying.

[Guest]

To Tusah and Azer. Ok, I must LOL at the notion that electricity is irrelevant to wood (not in a bad way), and I'm not sure how to take Azer's comment. Azer did you mean the saws used in the mills? A lumberjack with an electric chainsaw would be laughed out of the forest.

Tusah, speaking for DIRECT experience of living in a community that was supported by a wood mill, power and water are very MUCH indeed used to process wood for manufacturing.

Google wood mills.

[Guest]

To Tusah and Azer. Ok, I must LOL at the notion that electricity is irrelevant to wood (not in a bad way), and I'm not sure how to take Azer's comment. Azer did you mean the saws used in the mills? A lumberjack with an electric chainsaw would be laughed out of the forest.

Tusah, speaking for DIRECT experience of living in a community that was supported by a wood mill, power and water are very MUCH indeed used to process wood for manufacturing.

Google wood mills.

Plantation != Wood Mill

[Guest]

and it matters because?...??