Lightning on my Car Could anyone clarify to me the following:


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*Lightning gives off high current when it hits a car/vehicle, and since the electrical components of the car is grounded on the chassis, are there possibilities that these high currents can destroy or damage the electrical components,battery, antenna etc through the 'grounding'?

*what are the 'areas' or 'lightning zones' on my car which have the possibility of getting struck by lightning?

*My friend says the car is being 'positive' with respect to the ground(Earth) hence the lightning which is mostly negative flash tends to strike the car, How can the car be positive when the entire exterior of the car is mounted on the chassis which is negative?   

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Lightning gives off high current when it hits a car/vehicle, and since
  the electrical components of the car is grounded on the chassis, are
  there possibilities that these high currents can destroy or damage the
  electrical components,battery, antenna etc through the 'grounding'?

Lightning also has a massive electromagnetic field that is created during a discharge.  This field is so strong and changes so fast that it induces current into anything metal.  This is like a big electromagnetic pulse and it flows everywhere.  If strong enough it will fry anything with a PN junction (diodes and transistors).  In fact you don't need to be hit by lightning for it to fry your electronics.  A nearby strike can create a big enough pulse to cause damage.  Grounding isn't really so much an issue.  Most cars have poor grounds because they sit on top of air-filled tires.
However your car is surrounded by a lot of metal.  This metal can act as a shield from both the electromagnetic fields and the flow of the discharge current.  This factor can prevent both damage to you and your electronics.  This also makes the damage due to lightning very random.

what are the 'areas' or 'lightning zones' on my car which have the
  possibility of getting struck by lightning?

In general lightning goes where it wants.


My friend says the car is being 'positive' with respect to the
  ground(Earth) hence the lightning which is mostly negative flash tends
  to strike the car, How can the car be positive when the entire
  exterior of the car is mounted on the chassis which is negative?

When we are talking about strong charge densities like found prior to a lightning strike, the "ground" isn't ground.  In simple terms it takes an active role because the electric field between it and the ground attracts opposite charges.  Big clouds filled with charge moving over the ground pulls positive charges along with it.  You can physically measure thousands of volts of difference between spots on the ground due to the movement of overhead charges.
You have to imagine the entire system to get an idea of what is going on with the charge.

So on the ground around your car you have a lot of positive charges that will try to get pulled up to the metal on your car and then pulled up towards the roof.  The amount of charge your car builds up depends on how well the charge can conduct from the ground through tires/water/mud to the body.
Your confusion about a "negative chassis" is only in relation to your 12V battery.  Your "negative" on the 12V battery is only relative to the "positive" on your 12V battery.  If the ground is at a potential of 10,000V, then your positive is at 10,012V.
