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Some steel body panels. Much of a car is made of plastic/urethan type materials, hoods are usually aluminum, some bodies are all aluminum....

> Outside certain high performance cars, most cars have steel body panels.

I never thought of my Olds Silhouette minivan as a high performance car. Neat.

The rubbery panels were great. I was at school pickup and another parent backed into it. They crushed the front fender to the firewall. Then they pulled up and it popped out.

They were freaked out but it was fine. And it's just a car.

It’s more common than that. A lot of cars have aluminum panels now.