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When designing safety-critical automotive systems, verification of timing and performance are key, especially the verification of hard deadlines and other critical timing constraints. Test- or simulation-based approaches suffer from corner-case coverage problems and are becoming less reliable as systems grow in size and complexity. Time-triggered mechanisms (e.g. OSEKtime and FlexRay) were proposed as a way out by providing better timing prediction. However, for reasons of cost, flexibility and reactivity, future cars will mostly likely contain a mix of event-triggered (ET) and time-triggered (TT) components that are combined synchronously and/or asynchronously, thereby further complicating timing. Scheduling analysis has recently matured to allow reliable timing verification and systematic optimization for ET, TT, and mixed systems.