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Sergio Scaglietti: 1920-2011
One of the most iconic names in Italian coachbuilding has died. Sergio Scaglietti, famous for creating some of the most beautiful and valuable cars in the world, passed away earlier this week at the age of 91, in his home town of Modena, Italy.
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Driven: Mercedes-Benz C-Class
Stepping into the C200 Sport test car, one notices how the basic interior architecture is notably different from the previous model, which was soft and flowing in character. This is more 'blocky', with flat surfaces that echo some of the old W202 C-Class in the shape of the binnacle hood, ...
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Driven: Mercedes-Benz C-Class
Just over 25 years ago, in November 1982, Mercedes Chief Designer Bruno Sacco introduced his new 'baby' 190, codenamed W201. Billed as the new compact Mercedes, it was a successful model that lasted a full ten years until being replaced by the first C-Class (W202). This model - the first ...
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Design Contest: Freightliner 'Pride & Profit'
Freightliner, the iconic American truck manufacturer, is hosting a design contest to create the next generation of its 'Pride & Profit' trucks.
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Driven: Volkswagen Passat CC GT
Elegant and refined. Forty years ago these two words would not have been used to describe the Beetles bought in droves by the counterculture in the US; a symbol of the hippy movement and the definitive people's car, designed at a time when Germany sought to put people in motion. ...
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College Exhibition: Creapole-EDSI MA Degree Show 2007
The Creapole-ESDI Transport Design Masters degree exhibition took place in March this year, with work from the 17 graduating students of the Paris-based two year course on display.
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Coventry University design graduates develop iconic youth car
Three graduates from the Coventry University MA Automotive Design course have created an iconic vehicle for the year 2020. Kazunori Inomota, Edward Stubbs and Mujammil Khan-Muztar designed the Rebel concept, a project that began in March this year, to incorporate aspects of Japanese 'Harajuku' gangs - where teenagers create their ...
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Callum: JLR needs design studios in China and US
Jaguar and Land Rover are to open design studios in China and the United States as the two British brands look to better understand local tastes, according to Ian Callum, Jaguar Design Director in an interview with Automotive News Europe.
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College Exhibition: Elisava University Show 2005
Mitsubishi YDISDiego Salazar OcampoThe Mitsubishi YDIS aims to solve some of the problems of urban space such as road circulation and parking.This car has a wide interior space to house its four occupants, their luggage and small objects that are necessary for daily transport. The arrangement of the compartments has ...
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College Exhibition: Elisava University Show 2005
Students from the Transportation Design Masters program at Spain's Elisava School of Design presented their work in the 2005 Degree Show entitled 'Real Transportation', held in October at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.This was the sixth edition of the Transportation Design Masters course. The projects by this ...
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Mondial du deux Roues International Motorcycle Show 2005
YamahaThe new R6 presents the most powerful departure from the body language of the company's premier R-Series superbike line first established in 1998.
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Design Review: Honda FCX concept
The individual shell-like rear seats feature luxurious ottoman footrests, as on an airliner, with centre armrests containing climate control buttons. Neat scrolled armrests are tucked into the rear quarter panels, to compliment those on the front doors. This rich upper cabin feel is contrasted by a striking metallic floor that ...
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Design Review: Honda FCX concept
Should an alternative fuel vehicle look any different from a regular car? Honda seems to believe so with its FCX series of fuel cell technology cars that have evolved a look that's not only distinctive but clearly signals the advantages offered by this new technology in terms of packaging. But ...
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Design Review: Nissan Foria concept
Central to this is the new compact 'front-midship' platform which underpins the entire concept and dictates the car's particularly distinct proportions of long hood and short front overhang which in turn are emphasised by the slightly sixties coupe theme of upright windscreen, tall glasshouse, static beltline and low tail. At ...
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Design Review: Nissan Foria concept
In recent years Japanese premium cars have emulated some of the central ingredients of successful European premium brand cars. Some Lexus cars are conceptual, if not aesthetic, facsimiles of contemporary Mercedes-Benz cars, and arguably Nissan's front mid-ship platform based range (350Z, Skyline / Infiniti G35 and Fuga / Infiniti M), ...
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Design Review: Honda EV-N concept
The car is only 2860mm long, that's shorter than the already tiny 2985mm Toyota iQ, but the EV-N's also quite a bit narrower at 1475mm (the iQ is wide for its class at 1680mm) and slightly taller (1515mm vs. 1500mm). These proportions give the interior of the EV-N - designed ...
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Design Review: Honda EV-N concept
Honda's designers may have directly referenced an old 1960s car with the design of their 2009 EV-N concept, but to dismiss it merely as an unthinking piece of retro car design would be a mistake. Indeed this review will argue that the EV-N was one of the stars of the ...