Plus, saying your car has a carbon fiber body feels cooler, right? Anyway, not only is the Polestar 1 fast and pretty, it's also high tech and kind of light-ish? Not bad for a $155,000 Volvo .

In 1981, McLaren won the British Grand Prix with the world’s first carbon fiber monocoque race car, the MP4/1. Today, all high-end road cars use the same technology, and we can thank John ...

CEO and founder of Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) John Hennessey has pegged the famous Quail Motorsports Gathering during the 2020 Monterey Car Week ...

It's a bespoke carbon-fiber chassis that took two years to develop. To handle the car's anticipated power and speed, the chassis has a torsional rigidity of 38,353 lb-ft of torque per degree.

Its new Dash Bespoke division will happily build a one-off supercar based on a carbon fiber monocoque, giving prospective owners the chance to build their perfectly spec'd vehicle from seemingly ...

Additionally, the front frame of the LB744—also made out of carbon fiber—is 20% lighter than the Aventador’s aluminum construction. There is still metal in the car’s construction, however.

A 2012 Lexus LFA with only 4,400 miles on the odometer is up for sale on Bring a Trailer. Only 500 examples of the modern ...

Lamborghini still uses the traditional process of laying sheets of pre-impregnated carbon fiber then curing them in an autoclave for the roof structure of the LB744's chassis.

The car's chassis, doors, doorsills, wheel wells, trunk lid, hood, underfloor, center console, and bucket seats are all carbon/epoxy composite (with some aramid), saving as much as 40 percent in ...

Ferrari is quick to point out that while output across its lineup has jumped roughly 100 horsepower in the last four years, fuel consumption and emissions are down nearly 30 percent. Such gains in ...

Carbon fiber has received quite a bit of attention lately, primarily due to its extensive use in Boeing's high-tech, lighter weight 787 Dreamliner airplanes. But most Americans likely will ...