They both won, but the structure, and the car, got heavier because of it.

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They both won, but the structure, and therefore the car, is heavier because of it.

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The structure itself breaks all the rules of the standard, sterile car dealership, oozing luxury with its grand proportions and LEED certification.

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Because of its direct kinship, the Destino can piggyback on the Corvette's emissions certification as well as the Karma's crash-testing data, since none of the car's load-path structure has been altered.

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"The electricity used in building a car is about 20 percent of the cost of the structure, " said Marcilio Alves, an engineering professor at Brazil's premier University of Sao Paulo and one of the few independent researchers in the nation looking at car safety.

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