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Trend Essay: Designing with leather - back to skin
This report was first published by WSGN-homebuildlife on 9 January 2013.
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Renault and Caterham to develop affordable sports cars
Renault and Caterham are to join forces to create new, more affordable sports cars under the Alpine badge.
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Nissan inaugurates new studio in Taiwan
The YNDC studio joins Nissan's Atsugi and Harajuku Design Centers in Japan, the Nissan Design America studios in Farmington Hills, Michigan and San Diego, California and the Nissan Design Europe facility in London, UK. Combined, these design studios are charged with working cooperatively and competitively to create the next-generation vehicle ...
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Interview: Henrik Fisker, CEO and Executive Design Director, Fisker Automotive
"When I went to Ford, I suddenly realized that in a big company where they're extremely good at mass-producing cars you had a huge talent pool that could do amazing things. But the connection between what the company could do in terms of production, manufacturing and engineering versus what design ...
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Interview: Henrik Fisker, CEO and Executive Design Director, Fisker Automotive
Henrik Fisker is one of only a handful of automotive designers that resigned from a comfortable position working for an established carmaker to branch off and start his own car company.
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Honda Interface Exhibition
Ginza, Tokyo - Honda recently had a small exhibition to show their progression of IP and binnacle design. Situated in the design gallery of Matsuya, one of Tokyo's premier department stores, it included a chronology of Honda dashboards from the first Civic to tomorrow's FCX. Opposite this was a grid ...
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Design Essay: Hybrid Car Design
Skimming along in an original, turn-of-the-millennium Honda Insight - arcade game digital gauges gently blinking amber and green, impossibly low scuttle ahead, enveloping boat tail aft - it's impossible not to question how far the genre has evolved since this, the first globally-available hybrid was launched over a decade ago.
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Forty-Nine (2001)
Over 1.3 million orders were placed for the 1949 Ford before it even went officially on sale. The revolutionary post-war design with slick slab sides and semi-covered wheels became a symbol of American optimism.
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Who's Where: Luc Donckerwolke appointed Head of Advanced Design at VW Group
Luc Donckerwolke has been appointed Head of Advanced Design at the Volkswagen Group effective August 1, 2011. In this new function, he will report directly to Walter de'Silva, Volkswagen Group's Head of Design. Donckerwolke's successor as Director of Design at the Seat brand is Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos.
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Design Essay: Face-Off
The second reason behind the emergence of face-off lies in vehicle development economics: the cost of developing and tooling for a clean-sheet, mass-market design starts at around US$1bn and is growing all the time. Compounding this is the recent trend for mass-market model lifecycles in the west to span five ...
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Design Essay: Face-Off
Just as a facelift is a slight alteration to an individual's appearance, making them appear younger while preserving their facial character, the procedure is also true for car design. Different bumpers, grille details, secondary lights and trim elements are the most obvious changes; the core design identity of the original ...
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Design your own Caterham
Caterham Cars will soon be creating its next new vehicle, but it won't be designed by its design team. The new car will instead have the design conceived online by the public.
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Turin Dream Exhibition
A photograph and a description illustrate the fascinating history of the Fiat 850 Vanessa, which was designed by Giugiaro in 1966 and was the first car that was "built for women," with many technical solutions that were made to measure. For instance, the back window opens like a seagull's wing ...
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Turin Dream Exhibition
The 'Dream' exhibition currently taking place at the Giovanni Agnelli Pavilion Esposizioni in Turin is a stroll through almost 60 years of creativity, which convinced the world of carmakers - and consumers - to accept new stylistic features; demand greater performance and safety; and to create new ways to adapt ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Audi Quattro Spyder
The Audi Quattro Spyder. It might not be as avantgarde as some concepts we've explored so far in this weekly series becasue this was a sports car designed with production in mind. It would have marked an entry into a market Audi was yet to explore during a time it ...
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Design Review: Renault Zoe concept
The rear seat is formed from a single S-shaped curve across the car and is wonderfully inviting, reminding one of a comfy armchair. The Zoe also features a 'Pass' system - a small iPod-like control pad that stores a selection of interior ambiences to suit driver tastes. One click can ...
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Design Review: Renault Zoe concept
Renault is renowned for searching for the 'Next Big Thing' in car concepts but until now it seemed a bit slow to join the wave of '3-Metre' cars that many believe are the next big vogue in Europe. The Opel Trixx and Fiat Trepiuno concepts featured at Geneva last year ...