Articles from Automotive Design & Production (October 1, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A clean, green, mean engine: the engineers at Ricardo are working on an engine that gives a four cylinder the power and smoothness of an eight by changing from a four-stroke to a two-stroke on demand.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		870
Detroit's socialists.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		550
Folding money: Mini drops its top; Available across the line for an extra 4,500, the Mini Convertible aims to set the standard in the premium compact convertible segment.			2243
High-performance testing from Cosworth Technology--and you thought they only built engines.	Vasilash, Gary S.		1022
Nissan's platform play.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		788
Pardon the disruption.	Vasilash, Gary S.		586
The importance of being positive.	Pollock, Ted		1654
The new Honda Odyssey: beyond the mom-mobile? Honda shoots for a revolution with its updated benchmark minivan.	Whitfield, Kermit		1032
The new realities of demand & supply.	Korth, Kim		1418
The trends in CFD are continuous, dynamic, and real: a variety of new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software packages are just a mouse click away for part and product designers--with a lot more capability to boot!	Gould, Lawrence S.		1324
The view from Bosch: China, diesels, hybrids, & more.	Kimberley, William		1574
The what & how of being the '05 Jeep Grand Cherokee: staying true to a pedigree is something that Jeep engineers--and executives--take seriously. Very seriously.	Vasilash, Gary S.	Cover Story	2017
Who needs paint? Automakers have long dreamed of building assembly plants that don't need expensive, emissions-intensive paint shops. With plastic film technologies maturing quickly that dream may soon be within reach.	Whitfield, Kermit		971