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New York Auto Show 2011 - Trends & Overview
The company also offered an SRT8 version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee in New York. During the SUV fad, the Grand Cherokee was for several years the best selling model in New York City. The new version aims to merge macho with Range Rover refinement and will be sold in ...
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Suzuki to unveil 'S-Cross' in Paris
Suzuki has revealed a teaser image of its new S-Cross concept car which the automaker will be debuting at next week's Paris motor show.
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Concept Car of the Week: Mercedes-Benz VRC (1995)
The question of automobile versatility has been a real challenge for decades. Nowadays, car manufacturers keep coming up with hundreds of new segments, sub-segments, crossovers, and crossovers of crossovers... Most of them end up Jack-of-all-trades, master of none. On the other hand, people can't afford to own a fleet of ...
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Saab: A Look at the Past and the Future
With the 99 Saab started to see real sales success in the US, but by the mid-1970s it was clear the car was going to struggle against increasingly strict safety criteria, so the 900 model was revealed in 1978. By taking the basic bodyshape and platform of its predecessor and ...
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Saab: A Look at the Past and the Future
As an aircraft manufacturer Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget had little knowledge of how to build passenger cars - some of the key players didn't even have driving licenses. But as the Second World War came to a close, the company had to diversify. If it wasn't cars it was going to ...
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College Exhibition: CCS - American Iron and Steel Institute Challenge 2004
"The AISI/CCS summer internship was created to inspire a new generation of automotive designers to develop alternative fuel vehicles, lightweight steel structures and a flexible platform base, all of which are real goals for today's automotive product developers," said Brian Aranha, vice president of commercial for Dofasco Inc. and chairman ...
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Fiat UK launches design competition
Fiat Group Automobiles UK, has announced a nationwide design competition to find fun new ways to travel. The competition starts today.
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Design Essay: Autonation
Laurens van den Acker, Global Head of Design, Mazda is another designer determining the identity of a relatively young company, and it is easy to imagine the temptation of using Japan's heritage to forge this. Instead, van den Acker states: "We will leave J-Factor to Toyota and Honda...we are Japanese ...
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Design Essay: Autonation
Two cars recently highlighted the issue of nationality in auto design: the Renault Twingo concept and the Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept. Each brand is historically close to its respective nation, but where Renault dilutes their connection, Chevrolet is emphasising theirs.
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Interview: Tom Dixon, Industrial Designer
Is the idea of luxury in car design outdated? For example, the typical leather and the burled wood?
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Interview: Tom Dixon, Industrial Designer
Even if you can't place Tom Dixon by name, there's little doubt you've encountered a product or a piece of furniture he's designed over the course of the past two decades. Cappellini put his 'S-chair' and 'Bird Lounger' into production in the late '80s, and after becoming head of design ...
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Whos Where: Ford of Europe reshapes their design department
At the same time two new appointments were announced alongside an interesting restructuring of Ford of Europe's design department. Martin Smith, with the title of Executive Director of Design, and Chris Bird, Design Director are realigning the dedicated design group to integrate more fully and efficiently the company's interior and ...
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Umea Institute of Design prepares for annual Degree Exhibition
Graduation time approaches and the Masters students from the Umea Institute of Design in the north of Sweden have just presented a preview of their final thesis projects. There are twenty-five graduating students in total, eight of whom are from the Masters course in Transportation Design.
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First Sight: Qoros 3 Sedan, Wagon and Cross Hybrid
'Drive New Answers'. That's the tagline for the all-new Qoros brand, a company set to take the European world by storm and shake up the status quo doing so. With an in-house modular platform, hybrid drivetrain and team of big hitters behind the company scenes there's plenty of reason to ...
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Michelin Announces Finalists for 2011 Challenge Design Competition
Have you ever dreamed about having your vehicle designs featured at an international auto show? Beginning January 10, 2011, 34 designers will be living that dream when their original work is unveiled in the Michelin Challenge Design exhibit at the 2011 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS).
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CDN announces second edition of Car Design Glossary
Car Design New has now published the second edition of the Car Design Glossary. Designed to enable budding designers - and those wishing to describe the products of the designer’s imagination - to decipher the language used in automotive studios, the Glossary was devised by David Browne, Course Director of Automotive Design at Coventry University School of Art & Design. He created the compilation
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Design Review: Ferrari FF
The concave sections that remain are nicely handled: a slight concavity is created in front of the front wheel, for example, reducing the volume of the bumper; and sections are hollowed in the hood between the fenders and the central nose, keeping the bodywork very close to the engine. There's ...
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Design Review: Ferrari FF
If asked to imagine a typical Ferrari, most people would conjure up a red two-seat supercar with a powerful mid-mounted engine. Indeed that's been the archetypical Ferrari for the past 40 years and in the 1980s Ferrari had little else in its lineup.
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Volvo celebrates SCC's 10th anniversary
Volvo is celebrating the legacy of its Safety Concept Car 10 years after its release.