Ford Mustang 6th Gen Body Material?
For some reason there's not a soul on the Internet that can tell me what the body material is made of. I literally searched for 30 minutes and found nothing. Is it fiber glass? Or what?
Get a magnet and see if it is ferromagnetic!
Not sure, but I think most of the body material is steel.
Parts of the body (trim, fascia's and other parts) are injected plastic's.
Ford has been doing a lot of formerly steel body parts in aluminum, but I haven's seen anything suggesting they have switched the Mustang over.
No it is not fiberglass! Ford avoided production cars made with that material for a reason. If you need to know why- ask a Corvette owner about how stones in the road ruin the car. If that fails go to a hot rod meet and ask around there. One Corvette owner I know tells me every time he goes over a speed bump he can hear the car cracking some place.
Some parts may be fiberglass.
If the body is fiberglass, such information should be available on the Ford website.
Soft plastic/vinyl or whatever front & rear facias… Rest is steel except I here that some have aluminum hoods. Our last couple 'stang's window stickers include the actual weight of the individual car as it left the assembly line… With all the aluminum (engine, trans case, etc) our present GT convert weighed 3968 pounds (!) … There's got to be a lot of iron/steel in there to weigh that much!
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