Summer 2006

7  [Key Person]

Striving for a car that does not clash

16  [Tech Report]

Toyota unveils the LS460 hybrid model

Hondas new hybrid strategy

New V6 engines from Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors

CSM forecasts growth in the Asian automobile market

Mazda develops new-model bioplastic

Alps Electric proposes a next-generation cockpit

JFE develops spot-welding technology that makes welding of a thin and a thick plate possible

Kubota develops a camshaft produced by cold-forging

Michelin organizes a technology forum

59  [Market Watch]

We are not going to use systems developed by others

69  [News Index]

74  [Cover Story]

Automobiles in 2010 foreseen in light of safety/environmental standards

100  [Analysis]

Toyotas powertrain strategy

104  [Analysis]

How much of the technological development process can be outsourced?

110  Tsuda industrials surface treatment technology

112  [New Car Report]

Toyotas new-model Estima Hybrid
Fuji Heavy Industries new-model Legacy
Mazdas new-model Axela
Fuji Heavy Industries - Stela

122  [Event Report]

New York International Automobile Show
JSAE Automotive Engineering Exposition 2006
Automotive Technology Day 2006 spring

152  [Basic Course]

Latest materials and processing technologies

Automobile electronics education

PLM in action

173  [Inside Story]

Toyota - GS450h

180  [New Products]

Pioneers new-model navigation system

212  Letters from readers/From editors/Coming next issue