Top 10 Automotive Design Terms

9. Fease Disease

Next up is something known as fease disease, the first word being shorthand for feasibility. White said this automotive illness can occur when “cost and engineering problems get in the way of [a] concept being as pure as you’d like it to be.” In short, it’s when reality sets in and a design has to be changed in order to make it production viable.

White said the best way to avoid this is to be “aware of what would be feasible in the first place … If you don’t even consider feasibility at all then fease disease has very good chance of setting in.” Fortunately he said it’s not communicable between vehicles.