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**9mm_fan** · 03-10-2011, 10:14 PM

I don't know about carbon fibre being an everyday material for road cars, unless you are looking at Macca's, Ferrari's, GTR's etc. Over 95% of road cars dont and wont be using carbon fibre for a another decade or so at least. It's just to exotic and expensive for the average car.

Not quite "has gone [...] to being an everyday material for road cars," more like "is going [...] to being an everyday material for road cars." However with the likes of BMW and VW investing heavily in basic carbon fibre manufacturing, in order to secure a high-volume supply chain, I think we'll start seeing mass-produced models using carbon fibre in less than a decade.

03-10-2011, 10:14 PM	#3
9mm_fan Join Date May 2007 Age 54 Posts 5,191 Senior Member	I don't know about carbon fibre being an everyday material for road cars, unless you are looking at Macca's, Ferrari's, GTR's etc. Over 95% of road cars dont and wont be using carbon fibre for a another decade or so at least. It's just to exotic and expensive for the average car. Not quite "has gone [...] to being an everyday material for road cars," more like "is going [...] to being an everyday material for road cars." However with the likes of BMW and VW investing heavily in basic carbon fibre manufacturing, in order to secure a high-volume supply chain, I think we'll start seeing mass-produced models using carbon fibre in less than a decade.
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