Articles from Automotive Design & Production (June 1, 2006)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
"Safe" & cooperative robots.	Vasilash, Gary S.		790
[Un]stuck in the middle.	Vasilash, Gary S.		619
A new hybrid mousetrap?			1015
Acura RDX: purpose-built for the urban environment (where most SUVs tend to tread); Yes, it has all-wheel drive. Yes, it is an SUV. But when Acura planners and engineers looked at demographic data and saw that in many major cities young professionals are moving back downtown, they decided to address that trend with a completely new vehicle.	Vasilash, Gary S.		1326
Advanced material for racing.	Kimberley, William		1214
Autos & robots.		Brief article	152
Big Apple marks season's end.	Kelly, Kevin M.	Editorial	717
BMW searches for efficiency.			440
BMW's David Robb & two wheel design.	Kelly, Kevin M.	Editorial	515
Carbon fiber wheels.			66
Cell for plastic parts.		Brief article	213
CVTs go off road.			393
CX-7: Mazda's take on a CUV; They didn't want to build just any crossover. So they took the Mazda6 platform and the car's designer and devised the CX-7.	Vasilash, Gary S.		1076
Dealing with hid heat.			61
Detect & inspect--fast.			68
DFMA up to date.			299
Done-in-one.			79
Drill goes deep.		Brief article	66
Driven to distraction.	Anderson, Melissa		794
Dupont Spallshield.			71
Engineering a 21st century bus.			248
Fast, accurate parts.			62
Hybrids & customers.	Schindler, Silvio		971
Intestinal fortitude.		Book review	330
Like a broken record.	Kelly, Kevin M.		572
Low-cost headrest mechanism.			76
Magical bolster.		Brief article	103
Man vs. machine.	Sawyer, Christopher A.	Editorial	595
Mass produced, but just for you: Audi's quattro GmbH subsidiary and Ferrari's Carrozzeria Scaglietti and Special Equipment programs illustrate the lengths to which top line automakers will go to please their customers.	Sawyer, Christopher A.		981
Portable navigation.			70
QFD analysis: from customer needs to design specs; Translating customer needs and requirements into design and engineering specifications is mostly a matter of listening, seeing, quantifying the qualitative, and then figuring out the possibilities. Yes, there are tools that can help.	Gould, Lawrence S.	Column	1538
Scary Panda.		Brief article	73
Speed = money. How fast do you want to go?		Brief article	285
The inside story: why interiors matter; Not so long ago, being assigned to an interior design program for a Big Three vehicle was not unlike being put in a penalty box, at least compared to the people assigned to doing exteriors. But driven by the need to catch up to the likes of Audi and Scion, all that's changing.	Kelly, Kevin M.		2407