Hoping to make a lighter plastic for better handling and accelerating, but not compromising its strength and durability, they examined the bubbly honeycomb-like substance the chocolate is made from, and replicated it in plastic.
Not only is it 20 per cent lighter, but the MuCell plastic can be produced more efficiently at up to 33 per cent more parts each hour. Better yet, it won’t cost Ford any extra to produce.
If you’re considering buying a Focus, C-MAX, Grand C-MAX, S-MAX, Mondeo or Galaxy car in the next couple of years, I’d say that’s good an excuse as any to wrap your gums around an Aero chocolate bar – even if it is from Nestlé. [GizMag]
Mark
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 11:00 PMSo they’ve made a lightweight plastic to form a cosmetic piece that doesn’t need to be there?
Way to go engineers!
DK Son
Monday, April 11, 2011 at 4:09 PMGenius! Not rearry.
How about you make the whole car like that so it only weighs like 500kg then you have this 500kg beast with mass torque and power:weight ratio.