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Old 04-22-2015, 05:25 AM   #331
MrChrisLS3


 
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Originally Posted by Mr. Wyndham View Post
"Premium materials", to an engineer...is aluminum, magnesium, composites, carbon fiber. Construction materials, not interior trim work. These are all expensive, but required, to save weight if the size of the car does not change.

In that respect, Number 3 was suggesting it would be difficult to keep the car affordable at the V6, T4 levels.
That's just it, yes these are 'premuim materials, but not so much the 'exotic' materials they were even a decade ago. They're everywhere now, almost to the point of being industry standard.
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