Go for it if you're willing to pay the premium over FG and have the choice. Stronger and weighs less.
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Among mass-reducing materials, carbon fiber composites rank highly. As an anisotropic material, carbon's properties can be tailored in specific directions, which provides increased stiffness and strength along load paths. In a composite component, the part thickness can be easily increased, in localized high-stress areas - something very difficult to accomplish in the metal-stamping process. Designers can create long, flowing contours and achieve shapes not possible with sheet metal, slicing through wind resistance at the same time as being eye-catching. Optimally designed, the high stiffness-to-weight ratio of carbon fiber composites enables weight savings of 75 to 80 percent versus steel, 30 to 40 percent versus aluminum, and up to 50 percent versus fiberglass SMC. In addition, carbon fiber composites are durable - a fact supported by decades of use in military applications such as helicopters and jet fighters, where the material's infinite fatigue life is invaluable.
Now throw in the X-factor - or sex appeal of carbon fiber - and its associated "high-tech" reputation. Carbon fiber is associated with things that go really fast, like airplanes, rockets and championship racecars, making them a natural fit for production sports cars. Most carbon fiber automotive components produced today employ familiar aerospace and Formula 1 design techniques, and various forms of prepreg material.
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