When refering to cars what is a body?
For example i have just started the unit were we start to learn what a car really is. I'm doing my car on the 2004 Ford escape could someone tell me what the body is of this car. And possibly be so kind as to explain or give a simple example as to what it means. I have googled it so many times!
Doors, hood, trunk lid, bumpers, roof, fenders, quarter panels, headlamps, tail lamps, trims etc.
Everything except the motor and the transmission and the frame and the gas tank
Frankly it depends who you ask. The "Body" to a body shop would likely be the exterior sheet metal that makes up how it looks… The roof, hood, fenders, etc.
To an engineer, the "body" of the car is the unibody frame… That's the skeleton that literally every other part of the car bolts to. It makes up the floor, the trunk, etc.
I mean as in is it a sudan. Or a truck a minivan
The shell of the car
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