body in black

Meaning

Noun

• A body in white composed of carbon fibre composites.
• A body in white made from non-metallic materials
• A fully-proportioned full-sized skin shell of the body design prototype
• The skin shell of a motor vehicle, prior to its assembly onto the body

Origin

• Coined in reference to body in white.
• . From the fact that carbon fibre reinforced composites are typically black in colour, and not whitish (bare wood, bare metal, gray primer coat)
• From being the skin of the vehicle, opposite to the body in white, the skeleton of the bodycabin, as black is opposite to white.