How to Use subframe in a Sentence

subframe

noun

• Parts of the front subframe are hollow and double up as cooling ducts for the brakes.
  — Jason Barlow, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
• New drive motor, new battery, that required a new subframe.
  — Joel Feder, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
• And it's moved to large single-piece castings for the front and rear subframe to allow this approach.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
• The rear suspension subframe assembly may have loose or missing bolts.
  — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2021
• The front and rear crash structures are cut away to be replaced by subframes that hold the engine (up front) and transaxle gearbox (at the rear).
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2024
• The steering rack is now connected directly to the subframe, designed to make the car more agile.
  — Charlie Thomas, WIRED, 2 July 2024
• The chrome-molybdenum steel frame now comes with an aluminum and glass-fiber reinforced nylon subframe, which helps keep the weight down.
  — New Atlas, 20 Apr. 2026
• The bike is built around a high-strength chrome-molybdenum steel (Cr-Mo) frame, and a subframe that’s made from aluminum.
  — New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
• The steering mounting has been strengthened along with the suspension subframes, as have the battery and both front and rear motor mounts.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 July 2024
• The company will replace the rear axle bolt and subframe bushing and will also inspect the rear axle cover for damage.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• At the rear, the vehicle features a multilink setup with the control arms and axle subframe made from aluminum.
  — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• Attached to that tub are front and rear alloy subframes (think of them as big spars) to carry the powertrain and also the suspension.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• This car used titanium instead of steel for the bulkheads, suspension and subframe.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2021
• The problem centers around the rear subframe, which can corrode at suspension mounting points and cause the rear suspension to fail.
  — ABC News, 10 June 2026
• The front subframe, shown here, provides a rigid mounting for the suspension's lower control arms and anti-roll bar, as well as the steering rack.
  — Jim Frenak, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• The rear subframe has an organic, skeletal look, enabled by the AI exploration of forms.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Oct. 2023
• Handling has been sharpened by rigidly mounting the rear subframe and reworking the Bilstein dampers.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
• After casting, the sand is removed, leaving the same hollow subframe without needing to weld pieces together.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
• The car was years ahead of any competition, with the first all-aluminum unit-body, chassis subframes, and suspension of any production car.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2025
• The entire powertrain is mounted on a subframe, and hydraulically damped engine mounts keep noise and vibration at arm's length.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2023
• To improve lateral rigidity, the motor and battery mounting points have been reinforced, and subframes have been beefed up.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• Dealers will inspect the rear subframes of affected vehicles and reinforce them as necessary, free of charge.
  — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 10 June 2026
• Engine updates and quicker engine and transmission removal for track or between race service meant other changes to the rear subframe were also done.
  — New Atlas, 14 July 2025
• The frame is essentially split in two, with the front half bolted to the front cylinder head and the rear half—consisting of the subframe and seat unit—bolted to the rear cylinder head.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 14 May 2021
• Accommodating the new layout required a repositioning of the gearbox and the design of an all-new subframe.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
• The all-new chassis sports a stiffer steel-sheet-metal construction, with the rear subframe now made from cast aluminum—a first for the model, as previously it was made of tubular steel.
  — Rennie Scaysbrook, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
• Lucid doubled up on its own compact motor, and the two-motor setup bolts up into the existing rear subframe without any modification to the car.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
• The switcheroo mainly involves six bolts for the main subframe, a few 100-pin electric connectors, water lines, a hydraulic link for the gearbox and a cable for the clutch.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2024
• In front, the design philosophy is similar, with unequal-length control arms and a transverse plastic leaf spring mounted to another large cast-aluminum subframe.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• Generally, vehicle underbodies are built by welding pieces together and leaving a hollow subframe that structurally helps the car in the event of a crash.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023