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Design Development: Jaguar XJ
Over the next 12 months the design was constantly reworked and optimized to be fully feasible, particularly regarding the new aluminum body pressing technology. The body construction of the new XJ is a riveted and bonded aluminum monocoque — a totally different method from Audi and Honda's extruded space frame ...
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Design Development: Jaguar XJ
Many designers regard the original 1968 Jaguar XJ6 as one of the classic sedan shapes of the last forty years, so it's maybe not surprising that many of the styling cues on this latest XJ redesign appear to echo those of the original car. However, this was not part of ...
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Design Development: Renault Megane
The next stage of design development was opened up to all of the Design department, with about 15-20 designers of the 60 strong department contributing early design sketch proposals. Most designers worked with pen and paper, although the lead into Alias digital design development and quarter scale clay modeling for ...
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Design Development: Renault Megane
Behind the design of every major mass market car lies a myriad of different factors that impacted upon how it came to be. The importance attached to some of these factors depends on the organization, the individuals involved and the complex interaction between them during the development process. To uncover ...
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College for Creative Studies - GM Autonomy 2020 project
The Autonomy concept features a 20-year chassis life expectancy, drive-by-wire vehicle controls, and allows for a wide range of body styles to be fitted. The students were to determine the purpose of the design, identify the target customer, develop the vehicle for one of the GM brands, determining the appropriate ...
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IAAD exhibition - 'The car that does not exist'
Click for larger imagesThe work of Transportation Design students at the Institute of Applied Arts and Design - Turin, will be shown in an exhibition covering the study and planning of a concept car for Fiat, and a new sedan for Honda. Titled 'The car that does not exist', the ...
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From 'Made in China' to 'Designed in China'
Visitors to the recent Auto China in Beijing may have noticed an impressive new Chinese sports car - called Aculeus - on one of the smaller exhibitor stands. The concept car is the latest project undertaken by CH-Auto Technology Corporation - one of a growing number ...
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Infiniti Digital Art Gallery
This week saw the launch of Infiniti's Digital Art Competition Gallery. The culmination of a three-year international contest, the online gallery showcases the best 32 images created by international artists.
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Intermot-IVM Design Award Competition 2004
Under the title "Young bikes, young scooters and their modern surrounding" the targeted group itself is now invited to submit proposals for their future motorbike and scooter. Designs for fashion and accessories are welcome as well, as the project leader and designer Oliver Neuland emphasises.
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Renault unveils R-Link tablet
Renault is aiming to take its in-vehicle user interface modules to the next level with the new R-Link tablet system announced at LeWeb 2011 today, December 7.
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Exclusive: Pierre Castinel resigns from Head of Design role at Tata
Tata's Head of Design, Pierre Castinel, has resigned from his post to accept a position at PSA, Car Design News has learned.
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Design Review: Skoda Yeti
Yeti is the Tibetian word for 'magical creature' and the name given to the mythical large ape or 'abominable snowman' first thought to have been sighted in the Himalayas eighty years ago, which ever since has eluded a verifiable sighting. A strange name to give a concept car perhaps, but ...
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Design Essay: Designing For Mash-ups
MASH-UP: 1. A musical genre which consists of the combination of the music from one song with the acapella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres and strive for musical epiphanies that add up to more than the sum of their parts. 2. A website ...
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First Sight: Ford Transit Connect
Among all the cars unveiled by Ford prior to the Paris Motorshow at last week's ‘Go Further' product extravaganza in Amsterdam you may have missed its all-new global van range, most of which will launch inside the next 18 months, and which includes a new version of many a designer's ...
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Seat opens new Global Design Center
Seat has opened its new Global Design Center, located within the Technical Center close to its manufacturing operations in Martorell, near Barcelona. A week of opening celebrations culminated with an event on Nov 8 for designers from the fields of architecture, fashion, industry, advertising, communication, art and photography, as well ...
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Autumn issue of Interior Motives and special 10th Anniversary edition available now
The Autumn edition of Car Design News' quarterly interior design magazine Interior Motives is out now, featuring in-depth explorations of the very best interior designs from the recent Beijing, Paris and Moscow auto show
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Smart designs eBike
Smart has joined its fellow car manufacturers in designing a bicycle and is putting it into series production.
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Detroit Auto Show roundup
The 2012 NAIAS in Detroit, MI has proved to be exactly the dose of salts the US auto industry so desperately needed after a few very lean years for the event. Numerous concept and production cars made their debuts in the halls of COBO and, as ever, Car Design News ...