Increasing drawing area

I am drawing up a design for a mini bus. I have the outlines, but it is just too big for illustrator to handle 'items will fall off the drawing board' AH!
I don't really want to scale anything up or down, I want to work full size. Is there a plug in? Or way to turn that bit off?! I have used Flexi before but its rubbish using a partition such as Parallels. This has been the bane of my design career for a long time!
Thank you in advance - if anyone can help I will be so SO SO happpyyyyyyy!!!

OK, next question then...How do you scale something down, then back up again? I have imported the vehicle outlines, which are actually 'off' the artboard but can't do anything with it/move it/add graphics etc - so How can I scale it down and then back up again? I do printing too (outsource it) but never worked on a scale basis before.
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