You might have a minivan body for Saturday afternoon and a sports car body for Saturday night.
The Palio assembly line uses rotating cradles that tilt the car body to convenient angles improving both quality and job satisfaction.
One auto engineer described the situation by sketching two car body designs with identical perimeters, but one depicted internal gaps missing body reinforcements.
Lamborghini isn't exaggerating when it likens the interior to a jet fighter's cockpit -- the pilot gets a heads-up display as a matter of course, and has to climb over the car body just to crawl inside.
But beyond that, he is planning to build all Nissans and Renaults on the same ten or so platforms, sharing the basic floorpan that is the core of a car body and using a common range of engines, gearboxes and other parts.
Engineers can calculate the most efficient route for a spray-painting robot to take around a car body, work out how quickly parts must be supplied, look for bottlenecks or even tell if a human worker's task is likely to give him backache.
Yet the car's body is 25% stiffer than its predecessor because key parts of the frame--like the center post that supports the car body during side collisions and the roof side rail that connects the sides of the roof--are made of ultra-high-strength steel created through a process called hot stamping.
He attended a local school, they say, and trained as a car-body repair technician.
Hirata Technical used to make only car-body parts for Honda, but has now branched out into making parts for dry batteries.
Hyundai plans to increase the use of high-tensile steel in its cars by up to 50% by 2015, resulting in car-body frames that are 10% lighter.
He continued the attack until she died, and then put her body in the boot of his Peugeot 306 estate car, covering the body with a tarpaulin.
"The secret of a car's body being able to withstand the crash test are the weld spots, " he said.
"If a car's body cannot absorb the energy of a crash, it will logically result in more damage, more injuries to passengers, " said Alves, the doctor who specializes in traffic accident victims.
By working closely together, aerodynamicists and designers can determine the precise shape of the various bits of the car's body needed to ensure that the air slows down on all upper surfaces but speeds up on the under surfaces.
The Associated Press examined the footage to verify its authenticity, cross-referencing images from the scene, aerial shots, the location of a car behind the alleged attacker and the appearance of a body and a car in the background.
Bystanders screamed as they watched the front of the 11-car train crash into his body, which was later pinned under the second car.
It uses intense water pressure to shape a car's steel body panels on half a stamping die.
The driver sprang from behind the wheel and, pressing the palm of his hand to the woman's mouth, half carried, half dragged her back to the car and folded her body into the back seat.
Out on a nice country two-lane, the new Civic definitely feels more centered, more settled in its sneakers than the previous car, with less body lean in corners and more composed transitional behavior over uneven pavement.
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Soldier 150, who was in the Royal Anglians, told the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he drove the car, containing the body of Gerald Donaghy, 17, from an Army barrier to a military compound at Craigavon Bridge in Londonderry.
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While witnesses have not detailed in this week's preliminary hearing what investigators believe Holmes did once inside the theater, sources have said they believe he propped open the theater's back door and went to his car to put on body armor and arm himself.
Irene Bryant's body was found near the couple's car, but John Bryant's body has not been found.
The driver is smaller in the body of the car than the Fifties original.
He fitted a streamlined body to his car to give it an extra edge.
Separately, Tesla might mitigate the recharging issue by integrating solar panels into the body of a car.
He denied the message meant he had managed to get rid of Mr Hoxha's body and the car.
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With the help of a radar-like probe located in the body of the car, these deformations can be detected and interpreted.
It's the only big, eight-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive sedan built by Detroit the old way: by welding the body of the car onto a stiff frame.
His former partner Anna Lagwinowicz, 32, and uncle Tadevsz Dmytryszyn, 38, are accused of putting the body in a car and setting fire to it.
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