Modern Automotive Technology is an easy-to-understand, up-to-date book detailing the operation, construction, and repair of automobiles and light trucks. This comprehensive text uses a building-block approach that starts with the fundamental principles of system operation and progresses gradually to complex diagnostic and service procedures. The 2009 edition features a new chapter on hybrid drive train operation and service, as well as a new chapter on career success. It also contains new information on the latest developments in the field, including tire pressure monitoring systems, computer networks, and direct gasoline injection. Organized around the eight ASE automobile test areas, this text is a must for students preparing for a career in automotive technology. Full-color illustrations, short sentences, concise definitions and thousands of photographs make teaching successful and learning easy. Modern Automotive Technology is backed by a strong teaching package, including a Shop Manual with 177 NATEF Standards Job Sheets that are organized into 48 projects. This full-color Shop Manual provides complete coverage of all the P-1 tasks, as well as many of the P-2 and P-3 tasks. All the teaching package items give you the tools to provide successful automotive instruction. This bundle includes a copy of the Student Text and an Online Text (6-Year Classroom Subscription). Students can instantly access the Online Text with browser-based devices, including iPads, netbooks, PCs, and Mac computers. With G-W Online Textbooks, students easily navigate linked table of contents, search specific topics, quickly jump to specific pages, enlarge for full-screen reading mode, and print selected pages for offline reading.