The cars feature body panels unique to each manufacturer, so they look more like showroom cars.
Its cars have always been built in Saturn-only factories, with body panels made of expensive, dent-resistant plastic.
It uses intense water pressure to shape a car's steel body panels on half a stamping die.
It also increases the use of costly carbon-fiber body panels (the hood and roof) and other composite materials, to save weight.
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For the aluminium content to increase much further means using sheets and extrusions of the stuff for body panels and subframes.
Its complex is more vertically integrated than most U.S. factories--stamping body panels and building engines and transmissions, along with cars, all on one site.
This offers designers a way to find out how, at a micro-level, the air is moving over body panels and exerting pressure on them.
Body panels also can be customized with various designs and colors.
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The automaker still buys steel from outside suppliers, but when it comes to complex curved body panels or important structural components, the company prefers to use its own recipes.
What they are more likely to notice is how sleek and stylish the car looks, with its curved and creased body panels and just the right amount of chrome.
Social networking, texting, email and digital messages have borrowed the keys to the English language and are joy-riding all over the landscape, smashing body panels and junking up the fancy interior.
The F12 (aluminum-alloy space-frame with alloy body panels) is actually smaller (2 inches shorter and 2.5 inches lower, as well as 154 pounds lighter) than the car it replaces, the 599GTB.
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The automaker still buys some basic steel from outside suppliers, but when it comes to complex curved body panels or important structural components, the company prefers to use its own steel.
As the Chrysler-produced TV spot unfolded, an elite team of mechanics and machinists was transforming the vehicle with a matte black exterior, stealth body panels, advanced weapon systems and a jet engine.
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At the back of the building on the first floor, parts dept. lorries were unloaded fortnightly with car parts brought down from BMC Birmingham, these included everything from engines, body panels, exhausts to spare bulbs.
Hypothetically speaking, body panels already used on a vehicle could be treated with the battery-like spray paint potentially replacing, or at least reducing, the size of bulky battery packs used on current hybrids and electric vehicles.
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Features included a heads-up display with night vision, a DNA-based entry and ignition system, body panels that changed color on the driver's command and an "auto valet" feature that let the car drop off its owner then park itself for recharging.
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While it isn't as solidly constructed as its predecessor -- seams where body panels met weren't uniform, and the power button had shallower travel than we'd like -- the B still strikes us as a sturdy device, and, of course, it's not built for consumer consumption anyway.
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The new body will oversee 32 local panels and carry out training and recruitment.
Separately, Tesla might mitigate the recharging issue by integrating solar panels into the body of a car.
Called the Hummer O2 (like the H2, only less toxic), this concept -- which just won the L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge -- incorporates a number of innovative, futuristic features into its oddly-shaped chassis, not the least of which is a "phototropic" body shell that contains algae-filled panels.
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The Net Impact panels once again illustrated an incredibly knowledgeable student body set to graduate in coming years, and BSR attendees and speakers showcased high aspirations and a deep understanding of the complexity of the issues that face us today.
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All of its body parts were made using 3D printers, including its glass panels.
Chrysler will be responsible only for the final trim and assembly operation, where the body and chassis come together and where the seats, instrument panels and other components are installed just before the sport utilities roll off the line.
The council will still be advised by panels of experts from different areas of the arts but their chairmen will no longer serve on the body and will lose their decision-making powers.
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