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Who’s Where: Andreas Deufel, Design Director, Great Wall Motors
Since the start of the year, Andreas Deufel has officially been Director of Design at Great Wall Motors (GWM) in China. In his role, he is responsible for GWM's three design studios, all in Bao Ding, yet he still maintains his position as Design Director at TJ Innova Auto and ...
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Interview: Marek Reichman, Design Director, Aston Martin
CDN: Like Bentley, the brand has moved massively in a few years from making a handful of cars for anglophile connoisseurs to making 7000 cars last year, selling globally to footballers and Russian billionaires. You've popularized what was there before, but what's next big step for the brand?
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Interview: Marek Reichman, Design Director, Aston Martin
Range Rover, Rolls-Royce, Lincoln and now Aston Martin: it seems Marek Reichman's career has always been associated with luxury cars.
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Coventry University MA Design Degree Show 2003
The car is 1800mm wide to give more road presence and to provide space for a temporary third seat, between and slightly aft of the front seats.
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Coventry University MA Design Degree Show 2003
Graduating MA students from Coventry University School of Art and Design showed their work last September in the annual Design Degree Show, entitled 'Streets Ahead'.
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Four CCS students win awards in 22nd annual Michelin/CCS competition
Michelin and the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit, Michigan recently held their 22nd Annual College for Creative Studies Design Competition at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. Four CCS transportation students are receiving the exhibition opportunity of a lifetime when their winning designs are displayed in ...
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Only one day left in CDN-Opel/Vauxhall competition
There's just one day left to enter the Car Design News-Opel/Vauxhall interactive design competition. Last minute entries have been flooding in and it's great to see all the entrants working so hard.
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Show Review: Meadowbrook Concours d'Elegance 2005
As mentioned, the concours is just one of a week-long series of events, which included an eBay auction of two very high profile cars - a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet C Special and a 1935 Auburn Boattail Speedster.
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Show Review: Meadowbrook Concours d'Elegance 2005
If you look around in the automotive marketplace these days, there appear to be ample choices for consumers to select from. Somewhere between 50-60 brand names worldwide in fact, and that's not counting the small boutique manufacturers like TVR or Saleen.
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UPDATED: Honda hints at new European advanced design studio
On the eve of the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Honda Design's Creative Director, Toshinobu Minami, announced that the company is looking to once again open a design facility in Europe.
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Volvo uses Facebook to research new interior solutions
Volvo is using Facebook to conduct market research into how drivers use their cars' interiors via its new 'You Inside' app.
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Chrysler Shakes Up Design Leadership
A recent shuffle of Chrysler Group's design team could be just what the company needs to effect a quick turnaround after bankruptcy, industry analysts say.
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Driven: Fisker Karma
The interior has almost no switches at all. Instead all of the main interior functions - including the audio, climate control and navigation system - are accessed by the touchscreen display.
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Driven: Fisker Karma
Even top-flight car designers are usually not known for their business acumen. So Henrik Fisker's announcement that he would build the "the world's first luxury plug-in hybrid" was met with some cynicism as he stood next to his Fisker Karma concept at the 2008 NAIAS in Detroit. Three years on ...
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McLaren P12 hypercar confirmed for Paris debut
McLaren has confirmed its new flagship model, code-named P12, will make its world debut at the Paris motor show, the first time the company has attended an auto show in its recent history.
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Coventry University MA Degree Show 2008
Concept DOTVarun Niti SinghAccording to Niti Singh, the DOT (Direct On-demand Transport) concept is a 'social experiment' which provides a glimpse of urban transportation in 2030. Blending the attributes of car sharing, car rentals and taxi systems, the concept is an autonomous vehicle which can be called upon by users. ...
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Geneva 2011 - Best in Show
Unlike Detroit, which generated a lot of hype for what turned out to be not as much new product as we'd hoped, the Geneva show was a true return to form, with all new vehicles occupying various different market segments making their debuts.