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Vehicle Lightweighting: While most vehicles are steel intensive, metals such as high strength steel, aluminum, magnesium and titanium, sandwich solutions (with a few of these metals), composites which are made of high performance fibre including carbon-fibre, and lightweight plastics are potential alternatives. However, everything comes at a cost. Several factors including part complexity, part size, capital investment, additional labour, factory location, and reengineering effort influence the real-world lightweighting cost. ....