A second driving project, closely related to the Low Mass Vehicle project, was begun in the Fall of 2002. It is called "Reconfigurable Vehicles for the Emerging Market." Reconfigurable Vehicles are a family of affordable B-Class vehicles for emerging markets, such as station wagons and SUVs, appealing to those markets' desire for comfort, safety and styling while maintaining a low price and cost of ownership

UM-D's Parametric Model is a design tool that can be used in automotive advance engineering. Its purpose is to reduce greatly the time needed for new vehicle advance design. The model consists of modules to perform advance design and analysis of the following:
- Occupant Packaging and Ergonomics
- Mechanical Packaging
- Body Structural Analysis
The model allows the user to design and evaluate a new vehicle with certain input characteristics (e.g. vehicle class, body type, potential market). A new vehicle is described by assigning a number of parameters such as wheelbase, driver position, and windshield height. The model was developed using OpenGL to provide graphics functionality, C++ to incorporate required computations, and FLTK to build the user interfac

The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) awarded a multi-million-dollar project under principal investigator Pravansu Mohanty, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Also participating in the project are professors and researchers from the Computer Information Systems and Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments.
The project's approach involves layered manufacturing - making a component one layer of material at a time. Successive layers are laid over the previous layer to build the entire component. The project uses thermal spray technology for use in rapid prototyping, tooling, and field replacement of broken equipment.

Thanks to the generosity of Visteon, IAVS now has a driving simulator, one designed and built by FAAC of Ann Arbor. Its temporary home is in the Engineering Complex until it can be permanently installed in the new IAVS building. The ceilings in its temporary quarters are too low to allow the driving simulator's base to move. The high ceilings in the new IAVS building will accommodate the driving simulator's moving base, which can raise the simulator up and down by several feet
The driving simulator was originally created to teach advanced emergency driving skills. It will be used in IAVS as a research tool. Instead of providing multiple, slightly different driving events, the driving simulator will be programmed to reproduce the same event repeatedly in order to acquire statistical data.