[War_Wagon]

All good points MetroMPG, don't forget the smaller diameter brakes and sway bars to go with those 12 inch wheels and tires. It's weird when you start pulling a car apart and weighing all the components - a lot of the time the things you think will save a lot of weight don't really weigh much at all. We gutted the interior of an '89 Mustang to get out the carpet underlay etc and weighed everything in the process. I think the total for all the pieces of the rear seat, all the underlay, carpet, and the jack for the spare tire was only 35 ish pounds? The low speed impact bumper mounts/struts were 4 pounds each, so we totally reduced the comfort, useability, and safety of the car for a whopping 50 pounds in weight reduction. Needless to say after about a week of driving around in that stripped out tin can, getting headaches from the exhaust drone on the highway, everything went back in ha ha. So to me when a manufacturer can figure out a way to pull a few hundred pounds or more out of an established design, without (in theory anyway) reducing safety, comfort, or the practicality of the vehicle, I have to say that's gotta be a lot of work!