Automotive manufacturers nowadays are facing several challenges, brought by contrasting factors, like the pursuit of mechanical performances, environmental and safety regulations and also market demands, that very frequently require conflicting approaches. From this perspective, constructors are required to develop more and more complex systems to control a wide range of features belonging to different fields. This is leading to an increasingly extensive use of systems modelling and simulations, an approach that is rising to be quite dominant in the automotive field, that prioritizes the functionality of a component and assesses its integration into a larger system at each stage of the development, before the physical prototype is created.