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Design Development: Mitsubishi Concept-RA
Atypical of normal concept builds, the interior of the Concept-RA preempted the creation of the exterior design. Created by Chris Schuttera in Cypress, CA, the inspiration for the negative surfacing of the main IP section and the cowl was driven by F35 fighter aircraft - which has a clean and ...
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Design Development: Mitsubishi Concept-RA
Mitsubishi's Concept-RA unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show at the beginning of this year is a vehicle that encapsulates the brand's sporting heritage, as envisioned by Senior Designers Gary Ragle and Chris Schuttera. Built using a lightweight aluminum space frame and recyclable plastic body panels, the concept pushes the next-generation ...
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College Exhibition: RCA/VW - Day and Night
Students on Team Executive - Magdalena Schmid, Cieran McAamney and Elliot Hawkins - created individual projects. Schmid's project focused on the executive customer with a family in the year 2020. This new luxury segment concentrated on the social development of showing what you give rather than what you have, influencing ...
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College Exhibition: RCA/VW - Day and Night
Vehicle Design students at the Royal College of Art in London, UK, started work on a project sponsored by Volkswagen in October last year. Asked to research and visualize future market sectors and the needs, aspirations and desires of potential users; VW's brief to the students was to create a ...
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Design Development: Renault Ellypse
The aesthetic aims to look ergonomic as well as be ergonomic, to use materials that enable the sense of touch to help navigate buttons and to imbue the interior with a more human and less machine feel - in contrast perhaps to that of the technical, metallic (and masculine) aesthetic ...
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Design Development: Renault Ellypse
The Renault Ellypse was one of the most interesting concept cars to be shown at the 2002 Paris Motor Show. It is the latest in a long line of impressive concept cars from Renault that make a strong contribution to the dialogue between designer, industry and customer on the development ...
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Design Review: Nissan GT-R
One of the more successful elements of the design are the pronounced front fender boxes with extraction vents in the rear surface. These are beautifully modeled and amazing pressings in themselves, yet there is a mismatch to the softer character of the front end, particularly the front corners with the ...
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Design Review: Nissan GT-R
In the US, the Corvette has earned a place in the nation's heart over the last 54 years and six generations, and in the process has become the defining American sports car. The Porsche 911 has done a similar thing in Germany (if not Europe) where it has evolved over ...
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Hongik University's transportation design process
Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, is one of the preeminent design schools in the country with a diverse range of programs. But the school's transportation design department has also developed a unique approach for concept ideation.
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PPG Design Challenge
Global supplier PPG Industries presented its Design Challenge awards at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show in January. The annual automotive glass design competition called for students to design a vehicle for a 20-something male named Matt - a recent college graduate beginning his career - whose vehicle needed to be ...
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BMWism.com compiles definitive history of BMW designers
BMW fansite, BMWism.com, has compiled a definitive history of the company's key designers throughout the ages.
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Arabian horse inspires bespoke Rolls Royce Phantom Mirage [w/gallery]
Rolls-Royce has created a bespoke Phantom Coupé named Mirage, inspired by the powerful Arabian stallion of the same name that became famous during the 1920s and ‘30s.
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2010 Interior Motives Design Awards
The eighth annual Interior Motives Design Awards has opened for registration. Themed ‘Driving the Interior Revolution', this year's contest - hosted by our quarterly interior design publication Interior Motives - challenges design students around the world to come up with innovative designs that offer new solutions to the problems and ...
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Monterey Historic Automobile Races 2007
50 years ago when the track had its inaugural racing event, Pete Lovely drove a 1957 Ferrari 500TRC 2000cc to victory, barely edging out Southern California Porsche and Volkswagen dealer John Von Neumann - who was himself at the wheel of a slightly larger 1957 Ferrari 625TRC 2500cc. Pete Lovely ...
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Monterey Historic Automobile Races 2007
2007 marks the 50th anniversary of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and there could not have been a better way to celebrate this golden anniversary than with a perfect weekend of historic racing by some of the most elegant and desirable automobiles. This year's headlining event was the 1950s and early ...
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Design Essay: The Ingredients of Supercar Design
The Ferrari Enzo and Edonis are two recent designs that demonstrate how extravagant and dynamic supercar form can get, with a lot of strong surface changes, large air intake and outlet apertures and discontinuous forms. These give both designs a brutalism which in combination with their proportions makes their overall ...
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Design Essay: The Ingredients of Supercar Design
Supercar is a strange term amongst the lexicon of car design - a combination of two words that will never reach the common vocabulary in the way that 'sports car' and 'estate car' have. It is also an ambiguous car type; 'super' in the context of cars might mean many ...
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Drayson Racing and RCA launch EV racing car contest
Drayson Racing has launched a contest with the Royal College of Art's Vehicle Design program to design electric racing car concepts for the FIA's new Formula E series, which is set to start in 2014.
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Design Development: Denza NEV concept
Throughout the interior, the focus was on finding a design aesthetic that would honor Chinese tradition while also being resolutely modern. "I wanted absolutely to avoid any kind of clichés about China. These interiors with dragons everywhere, with porcelain, they're an insult to China." says Boulay.
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Design Development: Denza NEV concept
The 2012 Beijing Auto Show marked the birth of a new Chinese brand, Denza‚ a joint venture between Daimler and BYD forged to bring luxury-oriented electric mobility to the world's largest car market. Its opening gesture is the New Energy Vehicle concept (NEV), a 4.7 metre-long, four-door electric sedan that ...