New materials and simultaneous engineering in the car industry - the Alcoa-Audi alliance in lightweight aluminium car body structures, L.C. Kaounides; aluminium - making light of volume car production, C.E. Scott; steel - the automotive material of the future, B.J. Hewitt; the MOSAIC project - HMC shows its structural potential, H. Rowlands; revolutionary machining of revolutionary materials, R. McKeown and K. Carlisle; striving for manufacturing flexibility in body construction, L. Barnett, et al.