Automotive Design & Production

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Articles in June 2004 issue of Automotive Design & Production

• The challenge of intensified innovation
  by Melissa Anderson
• Super AWD
• Suddenly, it's 1932: contracted to design, develop, engineer and build a modern version of the '32 Ford Roadster body in steel, ASC used modern technology to make it everything the original wasn't
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Oil prices
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Aston Martin ups the ante
  by William Kimberley
• Single-sided fastening
• GM's drive for flexibility: as it works to put out more and better cars and trucks—more economically—GM is seriously pursuing a manufacturing strategy in which robots play a significant part
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Are you to blame?
  by Ted Pollock
• Kia Spectra: a serious contender
• Small, powerful & inexpensive
• Do plastic body panels have a future? Remember those Saturn commercials showing shopping carts bouncing harmlessly off of plastic body panels? Good idea, right? But apparently the approach never really caught on. Now the question is: will it ever?
  by Kermit Whitfield
• Aluminum turns the corner
• Two companies, one transmission
• Sensors make sense: clever deployment of sensors can help manufacturers reach single-digit ppms
  by Lawrence S. Gould
• For sensors: smarter is better
• Under the skin of the 2005 Cadillac STS
• Measure up
• Hydroforming, laser cutting, robotic insertion, & high-tech fasteners
• Making, renovating history
• Changing the game: wants matter
• The art of scion
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• PLM adds APQP capability
• Developing the Lotus Elise Series 2: how GM, Toyota and a couple of gutsy managers made the U.S. version of the two-seater a reality
  by Christopher A. Sawyer
• Getting it together
• Developing the '05 Mustang
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• thinking
  by Gary S. Vasilash
• Making softer, quieter seats
• Dana: competing with technology and synergy
  by Gary S. Vasilash