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The car company's engineers need specs for machines to create the parts from... and it's possible they use a 3d drafting program to do this.
So the possibility is definitely there that the entire car was modeled out by the engineers in an incredibly high detail model from the very base planning stages of the vehicle, and they had schematics and a 3d model before the first vehicle prototype was ever created.
Also, where companies didn't take that option, there's always 3d model scanning, using lasers and optics to scan in a model...
I'd be surprised if any of the car models the manufacturers themselves were involved with creating were ever built from scratch the same way we as artists build them
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