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Originally Posted by mkoesel
Using Carbon Fibre body panels and such would make them even lighter.
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The current plastic fenders (likely a reinforced plastic-fiberglass composite actually - such as SMC) are probably close to the same weight you would end up with from a CF part. However, CF is very unlikely to be used in any reasonably high production volume vehicles body panels because of its extremely high cost. Structural composites need to be reserved for applications where high strength, stiffness and mass are critical, which is not really the case for fenders.