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    Vehicle Packaging & Architecture

    The foundation of vehicle engineering.

    Vehicle Packaging

    We account for each customer program’s specific criteria:

    • Production volume
    • Manufacturing processes
    • Material technologies
    • Timing
    • Commercial and market objectives

    Our expert team develops solutions to meet all performance objectives and legislative requirements:

    • Occupant seating packaging
    • Definition of occupant reach zones
    • Occupant vision studies
    • Pedal packaging
    • Instrument panel and HVAC packaging
    • Windshield surface and cowl location
    • Steering column packaging
    • I-shaft routing and feasibility
    • Glass drops and door packaging
    • Door swing / cutline development
    • Wiper patterns
    • Ground line / vehicle attitude development
    • Powertrain packaging, including half-shafts, mounts and cooling
    • Engine compartment plug points
    • Fuel tank and filler tube routing
    • Exhaust routing
    • Front and rear suspension package, including brakes and steering gear
    • Tire size selection and tire clearance envelope generation
    • Front rail sizing and spacing
    • Bumper geometry and pendulum studies
    • Turning-circle development
    • Cargo capacity studies

    We implement a range of vehicle architectures and powertrain configurations.

    Vehicle Packaging and Architecture

    Aluminum-Intensive Vehicles
    Multimatic packaged and developed an aluminum-intensive PHEV van for Bright Automotive.

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    Customers wanting lightweight structural solutions benefit from our carbon fibre expertise.

    • Automotive OEMs
    • Motorsport teams
    • Performance aftermarket parts suppliers
    • Boat manufacturers
    • Other unique non-automotive customers
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    Industry-leading structural composites development:

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    Design and engineering of sophisticated composite products – from nose boxes to chassis to complete vehicles

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    An integrated development process with a Finite Element Analysis (FEA)-driven starting phase

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    Analytical tools and techniques for crash performance simulation and mass optimization

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    An extensive proprietary database of composite material properties

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    In-depth fracture and failure research