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Originally Posted by ryude
I'd pay $1,000 more dollars for an aluminum body, but not much more than that. It would only save about 100 lbs.
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100 lbs is nothing to sneeze at.
But one drawback would be if you were going to be super-hardcore and go all carbon for the things I mentioned, it would be better off to start with steel components. With aluminum you are paying for it at the beginning, then you are paying for the carbon ($$$$$ if you being super-duper-hardcore and are going for a pre-preg dry carbon) and not getting the same weight-loss to dollar value, since the aluminum bits are already reasonably light.
But I'll take the aluminum thank you very much Toyota.