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Old 10-03-2009, 10:34 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by LotinElite View Post
...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
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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