MIRA has over sixty years experience of design, development and testing of all types of passenger cars from economical, zero-emission city cars to high performance supercars and luxury saloons.
Working closely with most of the world's major vehicle manufacturers and their system and component suppliers, MIRA provides a full range of vehicle engineering services. These include turnkey project management; taking responsibility from developing the initial concept through styling, design, modeling, prototype build, validation, homologation up to start of production. Beyond production start MIRA provides conformance of production (COP) quality support, conducts cost-optimisation programmes and manages facelift and mid-life upgrades.
Every project at MIRA is unique. Whether it's to provide additional engineering or test facility capacity, or to access specific expertise our passenger car customers employ MIRA as an engineering partner in a variety of ways:
Introducing new models
Technology demonstrators
Integration of advanced vehicle systems such as drive-by-wire, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) hardware
Advanced powertrain systems; MIRA has produced hybrids, fuel cell, electric and alternative fuel variants
Model range expansion
Estate, convertible or MPV derivatives
High-performance derivatives
Low volume and niche vehicles
MIRA's MG-TF200HPD - high performance hybrid technology demonstrator
Provision of specific engineering expertise
MIRA employs some of the world's leading vehicle engineering experts in:
Vehicle safety
Styling
Ergonomics
Pedestrian protection
Thermal management
Aerodynamics
Occupant protection
NVH
Performance
Dynamics
Electrical & electronics
Durability
Materials
EMC
Components
Driveability
Environmental engineering
Legislation
Vehicle security
Fuel economy
Software integrity
Systems Integration
From occupant restraints and airbags to climate control systems, MIRA has experience of integrating systems across the whole vehicle. Giving MIRA responsibility for the integration of these often complex systems has saved many of our customers both time and money. And these savings don't only occur during the design and development phases. MIRA's experience and expertise often enables significant savings on piece price to be made with confidence throughout the production life of the vehicle. Recent projects include:
Integration of manual HVAC and automatic climate control systems across a mass produced passenger car range
Application of restraint systems to a high performance vehicle
Responsibilty for the integration of a suspension system for a 'B' segment passenger car delivering 'best-in-class' performance for both handling performance and refinement
Workload "peak lopping"
The larger of our passenger car customers have considerable resources at their disposal however they still call on MIRA to help them during periods of high workload. Being able to call on a supplier who understands their products and processes enables them to keep their own facility and labour costs to a minimum.
