Lightweight Interior Concept Challenges Convention

Normally when you think about shaving pounds from a vehicle, you think of downsizing or substituting lighter alternatives to steel.

Supplier Faurecia SA is proposing a weight reduction strategy that quite literally is a bare bones approach, sometimes stripping off the skin and “celebrating the substrate.”

Dubbed “Light Attitude,” Faurecia is showing a grouping of interior and chassis design concepts that it says taken together can chop 66 lbs. (30 kg) from a vehicle’s ...