The objective of this research is to construct a reduced-order model to predict the dynamical response, in the LF band, of the stiff parts of a complete automotive vehicle in order to facilitate the draft design. The vehicles under consideration have many elastic modes in LF due to the presence of many flexible parts and equipments. To build such a model, we introduced a non-usual basis of the admissible space of global displacements. The construction of this basis requires the decomposition of the domain of the structure. This subdomain decomposition is performed by using the Fast Marching Method that we have extended to take into account the high complexity of the mesh of an automotive vehicle. Then the matrix equations of the FE model are projected on this basis. To take into account the system parameters uncertainties, the model uncertainties induced by the modeling errors and finally, the uncertainties related to the neglecting of local contributions in the reduced-order model, a nonparametric probabilistic model of the three sources of uncertainties has been implemented on the reduced-order model constructed with the global displacements eigenvectors. The dispersion parameters of the probabilistic model are identified using the maximum likelihood method and the responses obtained from a stochastic reference model which includes experimental data resulting from previous works. This stochastic model which has been designed for the prediction of the global displacements of the rigid parts in the LF band is validated on a simple structure of an automotive model and has been successfully applied on a complete model of automotive vehicle
