Variants should be your best option for this in Odoo.   I will just give you small example. First in the settings in the inventory app, activate Variants. In the settings for sales, activate Variant grid entry.  The setting in sales, give you a pop up, where you select all the different options.

On the product template you set the attributes something like this:

In the Bill of material, you set it up like this:

When we get a sales order for a white product with small rims, the result is a manufacturing order with just that:

This way you can manage manufacturing of any combination of all the options you might have for the vehicle. 

In this setting I would recommend to use Make To Order process.

Unused material in manufacturing: In the BOM you have a field for the components "Manual consumptions".  Then you will be forced to confirm consumption. In the tab Miscellaneous set Flexible consumption to Allowed.   This makes it possible to confirm that the component has not been used.