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INSIDE THE MACHINE (Mono paperback)

AN ENGINEER’S TALE OF THE MODERN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

David Twohig

ISBN 978-1-78711-939-0

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Publication: 30 JULY 2023
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ISBN: 9781787119390
Price: £19.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 192 pp
Illustrated: 20 pictures
BIC Code: WGCB Cars

New for July 2023: Mono reprint with a new ISBN.

Previous edition: 9781787119123 (April 2022) £17.99

Comparative title: 9781787113558 Discovering
Engineering That Changed the World

This book tells the story of the modern car industry from the
inside. What is it really like to work for the car-makers – the
David Twohig is an automotive industry veteran, having spent almost industrial giants that influence the daily lives of millions?
three decades in the business. A native of Cork in Ireland, he started How are mass-production cars really designed,
his career with Nissan in the UK in 1992. During his time with Nissan, engineered, and manufactured? What does it take to
and later with Renault after the creation of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, engineer a successful vehicle?
David led the engineering teams responsible for three very different
and highly significant vehicles – the first-generation Nissan Qashqai The story is told through the author’s own journey around
(2007), the Renault ZOE (2012), and finally the award-wining Alpine the globe - starting as a young graduate engineer working
A110 lightweight sports car (2017). for Nissan in the UK, to working for Nissan in Japan and
David was named Engineer of the Year (the ‘Mundy Award’) by the finally for Renault in France as Chief Engineer of their ‘halo’
UK’s Autocar Magazine in 2018. He then spent three years in sports-car, designed to relaunch the Alpine brand.

California’s Silicon Valley, as Chief Technology Officer and Chief It tells the behind-the-scenes story of three well-known
Vehicle Engineer at BYTON, a US-Chinese EV start-up, before vehicles, whose development teams were led by the author
working at Waymo (the ex-“Google car” autonomous vehicle – the Nissan Qashqai, the Renault ZOE and finally the
company). Alpine A110 – revealing some of the fascinating stories of
Of dual Irish-French nationality, he currently lives in France, and works how these vehicles came into being.
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