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Design Review: JAC Vision IV concept
The modern packaging combined with drive-by-wire technology also maximizes interior space. Access to the interior is granted via wide opening 'suicide' doors which reveal the concept's pillar-less construction. This wide, unobscured opening facilitates ingress and egress and allows for a greater level of space as well. The floating seats and ...
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Design Review: JAC Vision IV concept
China's burgeoning car market - which is projected to expand tenfold over the next 20 years - is currently infatuated with large sedans. But China's central government is also actively providing incentives and increasing capacity to produce half a million electric and hybrid vehicles through the Chinese Automotive Industry Plan, ...
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EVER Conference 2007 - Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies
Toyota and Honda continued to show their dominance of the current market for hybrids - with the biggest, most auto show-like stands. As Thomas Mesnil of Honda explained to CDN, Honda is unhappy at being perceived as number two in this area to Toyota - having captured much initial attention ...
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EVER Conference 2007 - Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies
Whether the European Commission does or doesn't succeed in fixing a tight new emissions cap on vehicles by 2012, 'clean' is definitely in vogue right now. So it seemed appropriate that the eco-party last week moved to the French Riviera.
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Interior Motives China Conference 2009
As global automakers such as Porsche put the finishing touches to their show cars in the run-up to the Shanghai Motor Show on April 20th, sister publication Interior Motives is doing the same with its exciting line-up of speakers as it prepares to host the second Interior Motives China design ...
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Concept Resource: Adding value to the recruitment process
Concept Resource, initially created exclusively for the automotive industry, was formed with one goal in mind - to add value to the recruitment process.
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A tribute to Ermanno Cressoni
Click for larger imagesLast week the car design community suffered a great loss. Ermanno Cressoni or 'Arch' as many of his designers affectionately referred to him, passed away on Thursday 30th June in Milan after battling with cancer for 13 months.'Arch' was a reference in car design and his contribution ...
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Interview: Tony Williams-Kenny, Design Director, SAIC Motor UK
What's the biggest challenge for you now?"Quite honestly, it's the number of programs. We've got a lot of cars to do with not a massive team."
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Interview: Tony Williams-Kenny, Design Director, SAIC Motor UK
Becoming a design director at an automaker is not an easy feat. Years must be dedicated to creating visions for future products and managing a team that is capable of winning programs. That Tony Williams-Kenny achieved that level in his career when he was a scant 32 years of age ...
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College Exhibition: Hongik University Degree Show 2006
FUV_Family Utility Vehicle (REVE)Kim Young-Seong
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College Exhibition: Hongik University Degree Show 2006
Senior transportation Design students at Korea's Hong-ik University presented their works in the School's Graduate Exhibition 2006 held in October. Running from March 4th to July 10th, the Renault-sponsored project with the theme 'My First Renault', gave the students a fairly open brief to design a personal vision of a ...
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Design Review: Honda P-NUT concept
At the rear there are hints of the Honda Bulldog concept that was shown at the 2001 Tokyo show and with which the P-NUT shares a similarly upright narrow rear aspect flanked by deep section shoulders, a similar C-pillar treatment, and similar tall rear lamps and short overhang.
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Design Review: Honda P-NUT concept
The Honda Personal Neo-Urban Transport - 'P-NUT' for short - is a relatively light hearted concept car from Honda, why else would they contrive a name that sounds like 'peanut'? Reading the press pack that only runs to two pages and listening to the design team talk through the design ...
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Porsche to build 918 Spyder
Porsche today announced that it will build the 918 Spyder, a road legal version of the 718bhp hybrid sports car that made its debut at the Geneva motor show last year. The company says the hybrid sports car will be limited to just 918 examples and be offered in left-hand ...
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First Sight: Volvo Concept You
Volvo today revealed its Concept You at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show, as the company continues to evolve its luxury car range.
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Art Center Summit 2009
Muyres and Wardle have indicated that worldwide overcapacity in transportation manufacture is a major challenge, and that a more system-oriented approach to design would seek to repurpose this overcapacity to build mass transit and prepare society to transition to a more densely urbanized lifestyle. They were backed up by Nathan ...
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Art Center Summit 2009
The Art Center Summit, now in its third year, has finally seen the rest of the world catch up with its preoccupations. Initially conceived in 2006-07 to bring government, academic, and business leaders to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, to discuss issues related to mobility and sustainability, ...
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Design Review: MG5 concept
The SAIC stand in Hall E1 of this year's Shanghai auto show was dominated by an impressive display by its sporty brand, MG. As many of you will know MG (or Morris Garages as SAIC quaintly reminds us) was once a British manufacturer and while now under Chinese ownership, there's ...