Increased use of high-strength steel makes the car about 25 pounds lighter than its predecessor.
Structure rigidity is improved and weight reduced through increased use of high-strength steel.
The frame makes heavy use of high-strength steel.
Instead, the designers selected a cantilever structure using high-strength steel, to reduce mass.
Such a metal is classed as a high-strength low-alloy steel.
Their finding may eventually lead to the production of less expensive high-strength steels.
This offers great improvements in formability over other high-strength steels.
More than 70 percent of the underbody is high-strength steel.
Each of the steel tubes will be high-strength steel in order to reduce cost and assembly weight.
Increase use of high-strength steel to 55% on the sedan (56% for the coupe) from 50% contributes to a 7% reduction in body weight.