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weight was important. By training a structural engineer, he was responsible for many of the innovations that are now commonplace: monocoque unibodies, composite construction, aerodynamic downforce, mid-engined motor placement, and active suspensions. That some of these ideas have only fairly recently been incorporated into mass produced cars shows that Chapman was a true visionary. Especially when one realizes that he died almost 25 years ago. 
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Even in his earliest designs, Colin Chapman assumed light - 
