The foot-activated parking brake on the '98 Chrysler LH cars is a big new step for plastics - it shows how confident automakers are in replacing metal with plastic in applications requiring very high strength, proponents say.Displayed at the 1998...
Lighting systems almost always are a prominent feature at SAE, but interior and exterior systems shine especially bright this year. Visteon Automotive Systems wins the prize for the most futuristic, but Cooper Automotive, Osram-Sylvania Products...
Ford Motor Co.'s all-new Lincoln LS6 and LS8 models (see story p.59) head the guest list at this year's New York Auto Show (April 11-19). But stepping out from those shadows at the exhibition - dominated by luxury car debuts - are the all-new...
Maybe it was inevitable: Two laws have collided, erupting into a national debate once again over highway safety.The law of physics says a bigger, heavier vehicle almost always will inflict greater damage and more fatalities during a collision with...
In the year since we warned that the oft-berated, appreciated-only-by-the-Europeans diesel engine was amassing a low-profile patronage in the U.S. (see WAW - April '97, p.49), another trend has continued, albeit much more conspicuously: the public...
In a rather anti-climactic moment, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) in early March unveils a physical prototype of its UltraLight Steel Auto Body (ULSAB), basically proving out a digital prototype developed several years ago. It...