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Italian sports car features engineering plastics bodywork
High Performance Plastics, June, 1992
Pininfarina SpA of Turin, Italy, has produced a car with a three-cylinder, two-stroke engine and with bodywork moulded in GE Plastics' 'Noryl GTX' resin, a blend of polyphenylene oxide (PPO) and nylon. Pininfarina's 'Ethos' two-seater was launched at the recent Turin motor show. It involved close collaboration with the engine maker, Orbitel, and with Goodyear and GE Plastics. GE agreed to engineer and prototype nine different exterior panels including the doors, fenders, bumpers, rear quarter panels and extended sill panels. The company then analysed how each of these parts would fit into the production process, and compared their costs against those of conventional systems. According to GE Plastics, light weight and styling flexibility are among the main reasons why car...
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