The Body Challenge

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• History Index
• Functions of Automotive Body
• Design Factors
• The Body Challenge
• The Early Days
• Early Body and Chassis
• Mass Production
• American Styling Revolution
• The Italians
• Safety
• Voice of the Customer
• Mechanical Influences
• Evolution of Body Features

• Constraint satisfaction
  • Aerodynamics
  • Packaging
  • Styling
  • etc.
• Simultaneous engineering
• Time to market
• Cost effective
• Competition
• Speculations