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Show Review: SEMA 2006
By its monstrous scale and attendance, the SEMA Show easily qualifies in the major league of international car shows: even though it is only opened to automotive industry professionals and media, the show attracts more than 100,000 people from all over the world. This year they traveled to Las Vegas ...
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Design Review: Ford Shelby GR - 1
Ford Motor Company design chief J Mays introduces the Shelby. Click for larger imagesTHE Sketch2004 Shelby Cobra ConceptShelby GR-1 designers Matthew Hill (interior), George Saridakis (exterior)Photos: Brett Patterson, Marc Beauregard, FordWhat makes a good car design? One that sells well? One that car designers rate highly? One that you ...
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MA Transportation Design Program at the Umeå Institute of Design
The Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University Sweden attracts young design students from all over the world to its two-year Master of Arts degree program in Transportation Design, the first of its kind in the Nordic countries. This year's MA program, for which the Institute is anticipating another talented ...
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Show Review: Genoa Boat Show 2006
If the 56 and 115 Pershings represent different ingestions of the same themes in different price bands, Azimut impressively brings some superyacht decadence to those too impoverished to afford more than $2million or so. Another Italian brand, Azimut has been causing a stir in the boating world with their 'radical' ...
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Show Review: Genoa Boat Show 2006
First held in 1960, the Genoa Boat Show can now expect some 400,000 people to crowd the pontoons in what has become the marine equivalent of the Paris Motor Show.
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Design Review: Renault Modus
Similarly, its Down-Road-Graphic is generic Renault with MPV proportions, slightly cute lamps and a benignly smiling lower grille aperture.
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Design Review: Renault Modus
The first Renault to bear Patrick le Quement's stamp was the Twingo - a very small but very spacious, very charming but very clever 3-door monospace design. It was the first 'sub-B' car in Europe to share its slightly bigger sibling's platform, and proves the value of Renault's more advanced ...
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Who's Where: Camilo Pardo leaves Ford
Camilo Pardo has ended his 24 year long career at Ford to pursue his numerous other creative endeavors. CDN caught up with the accomplished artist, sculptor, clothing and furniture designer at his annual Designer's Night bash in Detroit, where he told us how he was now "free to do anything", ...
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Design Review: Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept
The front face is typical of current trends in China. A slim band links the sharply-stepped ‘dropped' headlamps to create a broad monographic, with an underlying wide grille beneath the lamps that binds the whole face together - the IAT Crosswind II has a similar DRG, for instance.
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Design Review: Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept
One of the interesting aspects of attending motor shows is seeking out the lesser known - but equally fascinating - concepts from the suppliers and consultants to the major manufacturers. A recent example of this was the Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept shown at Auto China 2010 in Beijing last month. ...
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College Exhibition: Coventry University Design Degree Show 2004
Continuing the theme of design for women was Alex Watkin's Renault interior design proposal. He conducted interviews and research to discover what women wanted from their cars which led to ideas such as a high floor that allows rubbish to be swept into door bins and built-in vacuum cleaner nozzles.
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College Exhibition: Coventry University Design Degree Show 2004
Sep 1, 2004 - Final year undergraduate students from the Coventry University Transport Design course showed their work in the annual degree exhibition in June. The 2004 show celebrates the conclusion of either 3 or 4 years of study, depending on whether the BA Hons or MDes study routes have ...
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Factory Five Body Design Competition
Following in the footsteps of Local Motors, Factory Five is set to launch an open-sourced design contest to design its next car. Up until now, the Massachusetts-based company is famed for its Type '65 Shelby Cobra Coupe replicas and its GTM racecar.
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Design Development: Ford 427 concept
Click for larger images'Scorsese-like' support material by the graphic design group at Irvine
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Design Development: Ford 427 concept
A key element of the design is the single line running from the headlamp, up the A-pillar, along the roof and down to the rear lamps which, according to Baker, "expresses the silhouette in an honest way". Likewise, the simple DLO (side window graphic) is deliberately understated and the graphical ...
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Design Development: Ford 427 concept
The 427 concept is a modern, all-American sedan inspired by the exuberance of the company's landmark sedans of the 1960s and was designed in Ford's Irvine, California studio by British designer Joe Baker. After graduating from Coventry University School of Art and Design in 1995, Baker spent time in Isuzu's ...
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Ssangyong Motor unveils new Design Center at Pyeongtaek plant
Ssangyong has opened a new Design Center at its Pyeongtaek plant in South Korea.
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Design Development: KTM X-Bow
However, once Dallara realised the objective for the X-Bow was to deliver a fun, recreational sports car that focused on handling rather than ultimate speed, they were able to focus on improving down-force to maximise cornering grip. Dallara then took Alias-produced surface data from Kiska designer Peter Stiller, put it ...
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Design Development: KTM X-Bow
KTM is an Austrian motorcycle company. Originally it produced only off-road bikes, but now it also makes ATVs / quads and road orientated machines, all focused on the enthusiast end of the motorbike market - there are no retro-cruisers, scooters or large screened tourers in the KTM range.
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Design Development: Opel Signum
The Signum, now being launched across Europe under the Opel and Vauxhall brands, is a variant of the Vectra range (or 'palette') already comprising sedan, hatch and the newly announced estate. The wheelbase is 130mm longer than the hatchback and sedan, but its rear overhang is 90mm less and thus ...