All car makes and models?

Question

Dont yall see how all car makes...how fast their throwing cars together with that plastic (fiberglass). All it takes is a little kick..and BAM! you have a big dent on the car. You see how cheap cars are made. The material their using these days

What I meant is that car makes are using a cheaper material(fibarglass)....then like the old times(steel).. I drive a 2003 toyota limited(black) 4runner

Answer 1

so buy a plastic car :)

I prefer the older models like my 1990 Thunderbird Super Coupe, good looks, and high performance

Answer 2

Did you even ask a question?

But if you are complaining that cars are all being built with fiberglass body panels, or plastic body panels now, you are wrong. Sure, Saturn tried it, and a few other cheap cars did too (plastic). Fiberglass body panels are typically only used on sports cars, and it's not because it's cheap, it's because it is light. Corvettes have been using fiberglass hoods since I was a little kid. So that's nothing new.

The only material I've seen being applied to average passenger car bodies is aluminum. This is being used in hoods, fenders, and decklids. It's not typically used in the body structure, just in bolt on pieces (with the exception of more expensive cars, Audi A8 comes to mind).

Answer 3

Actually you didn't ask a question, but instead are on a "Ain't it terrible" rant and looking for others to agree with you. You seem to blame the car manufactures for this problem, but that's not where the blame belongs.

Put it where it does belong, on the tree huggers that are crying about pollution and passing laws that vehicles have to get better fuel mileage.

How do you get better mileage? Less weight. How do you get less weight? Fiberglass. That and aerodynamics so all cars now look the same...

Answer 4

II can understand what you are saying, but what you are not considering here is why.
The goverment has mandated that all new cars get better gas miliage and the car makers are trying to figer out HOW.
One way is to make the car lighter. All sheet metal bodys are very heavy. So to make it get better milage there are things the car makers have come up with. All of the cars can't move all that wight so thy started with the body. Make it out of a lighter body panels and in the long run make it easer to replace.

Most body panels are plastic and when it come time to replace it all you do is replace the hole panel..
To fix the old one you had to body fill it and paint it and again it was to heavy.
Being gas keeps going up and we pay for it, the car companys had to come up with a better idea.

Answer 5

yeah it's been like that for a few years now?

what year and make and model do you Drive?

me i have a 1990 Dodge Omni and it's made out of steel i meen ya it's got some rust but the steel can take more of a beating then fiberglass

LET US NO WHAT KIND OF CAR YOU OWN?

Answer 6

Modern materials are used in modern cars. They look cheap, but it is expensive to buy and replace.

Answer 7

All ' yall ' gotta do is avoid the little kick & the BAM will not happen.

Answer 8

come kick my 1970s mercedes and break your foot.

try that on my 1990 mercedes and break your foot.

try it on my 2003 mercedes gelandewagon and break your foot.

perhaps you should buy better cars.