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Body Flex

Twisting of a vehicle's body under acceleration or while turning that steals power and reduces the vehicle's ability to perform. To reduce body flex and improve structural rigidity, people install such accessories as strut tower braces and subframe connectors.

Body In White

1. A new, unpainted, and untrimmed body. 2. A body that has been completely stripped.

Body Kit

A restyling product that may include a ground effects package and a rear spoiler or wing, and also may cover parts of the body panels. Designed to make a vehicle look more aggressive, more exotic or lower to the ground.

Body Knocker

A person who does body work.

Body Lift

A restyling product that may include a ground effects package and a rear spoiler or wing, and also may cover parts of the body panels. Designed to make a vehicle look more aggressive, more exotic or lower to the ground.

Body Mounting

1. Rubber cushions, at strategic locations, to dampen noise and vibration. 2. To place a car body on the chassis.

Body Panels

Sheets of material joined together to form a car body.

Body Pitch

The tendency of a vehicle to dive or squat.

Body Roll

A condition in which a vehicle leans noticeably when going around a turn. Body roll is not only uncomfortable for passengers, it also causes two of a vehicle's tires to have less contact with the road, which reduces its ability to stop or steer.

Body Shapes

There are six basic body shapes; sedan, hardtop, convertible top, liftback or hatchback, station wagon, and sports or multipurpose.

Body Shop

A collision-and-damage repair and painting facility.

Body Strength

Body strength depends on the type of vehicle and body structure; factors such as door size and the presence or absence of a center pillar. Also, front body pillar, quarter panels, and roof panels affect how much of an impact is absorbed.

Body Styling Enhancements

Any of a number of restyling products for the exterior of a vehicle, including a body kit, ground effects, spoilers, side skirts, fender flares and a roll pan. Many of these accessories can be painted body color for a monochromatic look.

Bodywork

English term for Sheet metal

Bodywork

Work done to the body of a vehicle, usually by a body shop, to straighten or repair sheetmetal, fiberglass or plastic body panels after a crash, or to repair rust damage.

Bog

1. To lose power and momentarily falter when coming off the line. 2. To stall or slow due to soft dirt or sand in off-road racing. 3. A mud hole.

Bogey

A common way of spelling bogie.

Boggin'

Competitive racing of individual off-road vehicles through a long pre-measured mud hole.

Bogie

The axle-spring suspension arrangement on the rear of a tandem axle tractor.

Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigation of the structure of the atom.