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Renault to preview future design strategy with Ross Lovegrove
Renault will unveil a new concept car that will underline its future design direction at next month's Triennale of Milan.
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Michelin launches 2012 Challenge Design competition
What began back in 2000 as a forum for people who share a passion for vehicle design and innovation has grown to inspire thousands of entries from 96 countries. Over the past decade, Michelin Challenge Design (MCD) participants have submitted vehicle design concepts for personal and public transport addressing a ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz CLC
From the interior, the changes are even less apparent. The IP, center stack and every core A-surface remain identical to its forebear. Only the steering wheel, gearknob and gauge cluster (with needles that sweep over the speedometer and tachometer when they're first turned on) are new.
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz CLC
The Mercedes brand tends to evoke images of wealth and prestige. It is also a company with quite a bit of heritage under its belt, with founder Karl Benz having built the first motorized vehicle back in 1886. So the image of prestige is well deserved, especially when you consider ...
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Design Contest: Renault UK launches Twizy student design competition
We all know how expensive higher education is, so the chance to win up to £9,000 towards UK tuition fees in return for submitting graphic designs for the Renault Twizy sounds very appealing.
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Interview: Murat Günak, CEO of Mindset AG
CDN: So now that you've formed Mindset, what is your unique approach to design within the company?
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Interview: Murat Günak, CEO of Mindset AG
Murat Günak is an internationally renowned designer who has had a prosperous career, having worked for large manufacturers such as Ford, Peugeot, Daimler-Benz and Volkswagen. But last year, just like Henrik Fisker and Ken Okuyama, Günak decided to move on to a different stage in an altogether different playing field: ...
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BMW announces DesignWorksUSA studio and ConnectedDrive lab in Shanghai
BMW has opened both a DesignWorks studio and a ConnectedDrive lab in Shanghai, China, as a means of gathering information and insight into the Chinese market as the company looks to increase its presence in Asia.
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Lincoln opens first dedicated design studio for 40 years
Ford has opened the first dedicated Lincoln design center for 40 years in Dearborn, Michigan, as part of its ongoing brand reinvention.
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Volvo P1800 celebrates 50 years
So far, 2011 has been a significant year with the Jaguar E-Type, Aston Martin DB4-GT Zagato and BMW 'Neue Klasse' all celebrating their 50 year anniversaries. The Volvo P1800, which celebrates its half century anniversary this year, is yet another car entering this exclusive club.
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Renault previews new electric vehicle concept
Renault will unveil its latest concept car tomorrow at its plant in Valladolid, Spain.
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Design Services: Car Menu launched
Sponsored article Find out aboutsponsoring an articleon Car Design News. More...Car Menu website.. Click for larger imagesPhotographic studioPhoto catalogTrends ForecastsWithin almost every automotive design department throughout the world, their comes a time when a junior designer is dispatched to find a picture of some new model's tail lamp, the ...
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Mazda6 estate world premiere slated for Paris
Mazda is set to debut its all-new Mazda6 estate at the Paris motor show following the reveal of the saloon last week in Moscow.
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NAIAS 2011 Trends and Overview
In the larger D-segment, Volkswagen also launched its assault on the Koreans, with the new, US-market Passat taking on the Kia Optima and Hyundai Sonata. While its predecessor followed its European twin as a sub-premium proposition, the 2012 US Passat is hoping to major on value, ...
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Fioravanti expands into China in partnership with Eastone
Renowned Italian design house Fioravanti has formed a partnership with Shanghai-based design and engineering consultancy Eastone
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NAIAS 2011 Trends and Overview
The North American International Auto Show 2011 kicked off the automotive calendar in its usual chilly style in Detroit. While widely believed to have the most optimistic such event, post-'carpocalypse', there were fewer product unveilings than we've come to expect at the premier North American auto show.
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Coventry students embark on interior project for GM's Opel/Vauxhall division
Designers at GM's Opel/Vauxhall division have tasked students at Coventry University with creating the vehicle interior of the future.
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Driven: BMW 6 Series convertible
Every large BMW coupe - from the E9 3.0 CS, through the shark-nosed E24 6 Series, Claus Luthe's beautiful E31 8 Series, right up to the outgoing, Bangle-era E63 6er - has had an exoticism beyond every other car in the brand's range. We drove the latest from the most ...
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8th L'Argus Design Competition announced
From 1 June 2009, design students will be invited to take part in the eighth annual L'Argus European Design Competition, which this year takes as its theme 'Less is More: Traveling in the Era of Simplicity'. Questioning students on the concepts of mobility and the future of automobile design, this ...
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Design Review: Audi E-Tron Detroit concept
The inward-angled front LED headlamps are less graphically 'loud' than the Frankfurt E-Tron's, but nonetheless join up in a similar way to the vertical front vents on each side to form a dynamic lower-case 'r' shape on the left and a corresponding mirror image 'r' on the right.