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Originally Posted by LotinElite
...weight per area means nothing.
There is weight savings by using the plastic body... plastic weighs less than steel.
Like you said, the whole point of the "plastic" body is to reduce weight. That means overall weight
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Isn't there another, more basic reason for plastic?: Molds for this must cost only a fraction of what tooling for stamping would run, especially spread over relatively few cars.
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