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The 2014 VW Touareg body structure is packed full of reinforced steel. Take a look at the screenshot from Moditech’s Crash Recovery System.

The 2015 Audi A3 uses many hot-shaped steel parts in the passenger compartment for low weight and maximum strength, while the engine hood is made of aluminum.

The 2015 Volkswagen Passat Body Structure will be 85 kg lighter than its predecessor thanks to the use of high-strength, hot-formed steel and aluminium in certain areas.

The 2014 Lexus IS has a bunch of different manufacturing methods. Use of body adhesive bonding and laser screw welding are just a few. The body adhesive bonding should be nothing new to readers of this site. But laser screw ...

Extrication Training The 2015 Audi S1 Sportback body structure makes use of extensive amounts of high-strength (including ultra-high, hot-stamped) steels, as well as aluminum.  The mostly aluminum shell with hot stamped, high-strength steel forming floors and bulkhead is really nothing new ...

Here’s a quick look at the airbags and body structure of the 2014 Hyundai Accent.

The 2015 Ford Transit is built with unibody construction. The Transit unibody is lightweight and also highly durable, engineered with high-strength and boron steel. Something to keep in mind is the seating capacity. The Transit “Wagon” seat 8  to 15-passenger ...

The 2014 Opel Cascada body structure has some unique features.  The A-pillars are press hardened and they conceal hard rolled steel reinforcement bars that reach down below the doors.  At the rear, the rollover bars are anchored in the strongest ...

The 2014 Honda CR-Z body structure for the Australia market.  The CR-Z has SRS front airbags, side airbags, side airbags with OPDS on the passenger side, and full length curtain airbags.

Six standard airbags. They include: driver and right front-passenger front airbags with a passenger sensing system; head curtain side-impact air bags in the front and rear outboard seating positions with a rollover sensor. Seat mounted side-impact driver and right front-passenger ...