Weather testing is a big part of vehicle development, and while automakers spend plenty of cash shipping cars all over the world for durability testing, there are some evaluations that are best done in a controlled environment. For that, companies turn to climate chambers. Ford's is particularly nasty, allowing engineers to subject new cars to temperatures ranging from -40 degrees Farenheit to 131 degrees, all the while varrying humidity,windspeed,road load, and altitude.
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The chamber can even simulate snow, which how you wind up with a 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 engine bay looking like it spent too much time behind the chicken nuggets in your freezer.
Impressive. Watch Ford explain the ins and outs of the chamber, and see what it looks like when you drop the newest Mustang on the block into the deep freeze.
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This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com.
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