Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in Dec 2006 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• Fast performance for performance vehicles
  by William Kimberley
• After the turnaround: the launch of the 2007 Infiniti G35 Sedan, Nissan Altima and Sentra mark the start of Nissan's defense of its recent gains
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• When low-cost country sources aren't inexpensive
  by Melissa Anderson
• 2007 Hyundai Elantra: wherein Hyundai gives other small sedan makers 13,995 reasons to lose sleep
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• 12 golden rules of top performing automotive suppliers
  by Erkut Uludag
• Assembling cars in Belgium; If you think that Belgium is dominated by just beer and chocolates, think again. Sure, the country has built a strong reputation as a confectionary leader, but one region is trying to keep a toehold in another crucial industry:
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Fast face mills
• Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra: function trumps form; The call came from on high to move up production for GM's new full-size pickups, a communique most engineers would take with trepidation. But the GMT-900 team responded with a strong voice, telling man
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Control systems in a package: going "lean" goes beyond production management. It even affects several aspects of control systems hardware, software, and application development
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• High-temp fuel cell
• VW's model moves
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Return to first principles: we have forgotten why—other than getting from here to there—we drive cars and trucks, and what we can do to make them significantly better
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Ford's new multi-use element
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Alan Taub: GM's science guy
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• The '07 Ford Edge: is this the most important vehicle in ford's lineup? [Yes.]
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Faster is better
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Hard truths for the holiday
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Nine lessons the auto industry can learn from the 787 Dreamliner: when the company's survival is on the line you can do what you've done better, or do something different. Boeing chose different
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• The talent pool deepens
  by Kevin M. Kelly
• Audi: powerful competitor; By rolling out two more vehicles in its performance S series, this German automaker is strengthening its position in the U.S. market
  by Gary S. Vasilash