No prototypes results in big savings for Fiat for new model.(virtual engineering replaces experimental prototypes in developing new car models)(Brief article)

Automotive News Europe,  February, 2007  by Ciferri, Luca

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Byline: Luca Ciferri

Fiat Group Automobiles saved millions of euros by not building prototypes for the Bravo.

Carmakers normally build between 100 and 200 experimental prototypes.

Harald J. Wester, Fiat Group Automobiles vice president of engineering and design, said an early prototype costs about [euro]500,000 to make, a sum that progressively decreases to about [euro]50,000 ...

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