Thanks, I'll give it a try.

At the same time in the render view, I'm also getting an error message that reads " 'mayatomr geometry': Unnamed object is not a mesh, ignored"...

What's wrong? And how come this error message seems to not have affected anything in the render? Like I would have no shader or what ever texture on the car, just the plain model, it will still render properly, but just with an error message....