Lightweight cars are a dime a dozen nowadays, particularly in the high-performance super car arena. Mainstream brands are starting to obsess over their lineup\u2019s waistlines now, too. We can guess that more stringent fleet fuel economy standards have done a lot to motivate automakers into trimming some fat. However, there\u2019s also the classic \u201cBecause we can\u201d argument to account for, and that seems to be the primary notion for Ford\u2019s Lightweight Concept.<\/p>\n
The blue oval has already made waves this year by announcing the all-aluminum 2015 Ford F-150, one of the first instances of a non-premium car made out of the lightweight metal. Using these materials has saved the best-selling pickup truck about four hundred pounds<\/a>. This car wears the Fusion shell, but it weighs as much as a Ford Fiesta. Autoblog<\/a> is nice enough to tell us that the lightest Fusion currently available to the public weighs 3323 pounds, while a Fiesta weighs just 2537 pounds. So how were the Ford engineers able to shave off 800 pounds?<\/p>\n Ford\u2019s Senior Technical Leader of Research and Innovation, Matt Zaluzec, explains in our Zero to Sixty video of the week:<\/p>\n