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Volkswagen Concept T - Interior Design Review
Volkswagen presented the Concept T at the 2004 North American International Auto Show as a new hybrid, a crossover SUV and Sports Coupe developed at their Simi Valley design studio in California under the design direction of Derek Jenkins. While the German press found it 'cool, bullish, powerful, daring, risky ...
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Design Review: Renault Wind concept
A panel between the seats holds a circular control device that provides access to the infotainment systems: communication, music, navigation and service functions. Accessed by a button in the center, the anodized aluminum surface is divided up into quarters, a different quarter for each function. A simple screen at the ...
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Design Review: Renault Wind concept
The Wind is a compact 2+1 roadster concept car based on the Renault 'B-Platform' that is also shared with the Nissan Micra and Renault's Micro MPV, the Modus, that was also previewed in Geneva. As we have come to expect from Renault, it is ground-breaking in terms of future concepts ...
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Nissan launches UK Clay Modeling Apprentice Program
Nissan has launched a Clay Modeling Apprentice Program in the UK, designed to recruit skilled clay modelers to boost the UK's position in global vehicle design.
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Audi creates Carbon Ski design
Audi has recently teamed up with Head to produce these lightweight skis. Far from being the first manufacturer to dabble with downhill equipment, Audi claims that its expertise in motorsport has resulted in a ski that is significantly lighter than its nearest competitor.
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Design Development: Volkswagen Polo
As is often the case, the interior design program ran a couple of months behind the exterior but was then pushed to run in parallel and went straight from sketch stage to full-size model and digital. Run by Tomasz Bachorski, the interior program adopted a design theme very closely related ...
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Design Development: Volkswagen Polo
The fifth-generation Volkswagen Polo is the first all-new production design since the current Volkswagen design management team - consisting of Walter de'Silva, Head of Volkswagen Group Design; Flavio Manzoni, Head of Creative Design for the Volkswagen Group; and Klaus Bischoff, Head of Design for the Volkswagen brand - was established ...
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First sight of Pininfarina-designed Eurostar trains
Eurostar has unveiled the first images of its new Pininfarina-designed e320 trains that are currently under construction in Germany.
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Concept Car of the Week: Saab Aero X
In January 2005 Bryan Nesbitt, then-executive director of GM Europe Design, charged the 15-strong Saab Advanced design team in Gothenburg, Sweden, to create the "ultimate vision of the brand".
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College Exhibition: GAFA University degree show 2012
Students at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) celebrated the culmination of four years of study last month by presenting their final projects at the college's annual BA degree show.
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White remains new car buyers' top color
White remains the most popular color of choice for automotive consumers, a trend report has shown, with 22 per cent of all car buyers opting for the color.
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Car Design News Contest
The initial judging process for the Car Design News contest has been completed. With hundreds of entries from a total of 55 countries, and a high standard from both professional and student designers, the judging process was tough...
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BMW Adds Two New Exhibits to Museum
BMW added two new exhibits to its Museum in Munich, Germany this past weekend, designed to showcase the automakers forward thinking ambitions towards lightweight, efficient vehicles. Called the Simple and Clever concepts, the three wheeled urban contraptions were designed as a research exercise to make maneuvering in urban areas easier ...
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Local Motors announces winners of Terra Prix 2085 design competition
Local Motors has announced the 10 winners of its Terra Prix 2085 Concept Design competition.
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Car Designers Blackmailed
A London court has found former design student Guy Lloyd-Parker guilty of blackmailing US car designers.
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Design Review: Mitsubishi Se-ro
The Mitsubishi Se-ro design impresses on two different levels. Firstly the car shouts its unusual newness just as loudly as one would expect of a Tokyo show car, it is unequivocally different in its steeply fronted, polished aluminum monospace form. Secondly, the Se-ro moves forward the modern micro MPV vehicle ...
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Design Review: Honda HSC concept
To these European eyes the Honda HSC was the car at Tokyo with the most 'wow' factor, which is as much because of its status as the only Japanese supercar at the show as it is from its fresh and precisely defined volumes.
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Design Review: Nissan Redigo
Dimensionally close to the Nissan Micra (with which it presumably shares a platform) the four seat Redigo has a strong 'leisure' identity from its SUV-esque design language and slightly tall proportion, and from its B-pillarless design and novel opening roof. This roof is central to the Redigo's concept, the two ...
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Design Review: Jeep Renegade concept
The interior, by Scott Anderson, is arguably even more innovative, and has numerous environmentally driven elements: molded soy-based foam seats and doors, a co-molded aluminum/silicone steering wheel, a chassis made with no environmentally-harmful resins. The color and finish of the interior parts are also molded in one shot.