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Design Development: Smart Roadster and Roadster Coupe
As development of the coupe concept car began, so the roadster show car was scanned (digitised) and then developed digitaly over the following year with both exterior and interior designs signed off in November 2000. Colour and Trim design continued in parallel, but for longer, with sign off in November ...
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Design Development: Smart Roadster and Roadster Coupe
At the 1998 Paris Motor Show the two seater 2.5 metre long Smart City Coupe was launched. This was the beginning of a new car brand and the most radical vehicle concept to hit the European market since the bubble cars of the 1950's. It was also the beginning of ...
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Local Motors XC2V Competition
Local Motors, producer of the Rally Fighter, has teamed up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to host a design contest. The partnership, which was made possible within the Adaptive Vehicle Makes initiative, aims to create an Experimental Crowd-derived Combat-support Vehicle (XC2V), exploring the potential of a ...
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Essay: Searching for China's C-Factor
Western-born Friedhelm Engler, design director of GM PATAC and the man behind the Buick Business Concept, also points out the importance of avoiding a ‘cut and paste' approach to visual design cues, preferring instead to be "more China-inspired". As a Westerner, he says, he finds the 5000 years of Chinese ...
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Essay: Searching for China's C-Factor
The notion of national design identities being expressed in exterior car shapes and interior ambience and function is often an intangible one. But at their best, certain French cars do now display a flair for new thinking and elegance that could only come from France, US cars can convey a ...
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Interview: Gorden Wagener on the future of Smart and the brand’s ForVision concept
A lot of people mourn the loss of the roadster/coupe. Do you have plans to expand the Smart line-up further?
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Interview: Gorden Wagener on the future of Smart and the brand’s ForVision concept
Amid the array of new, urban mobility-inspired concepts littering the show halls of the recent Frankfurt motor show, it would have been easy to forget Smart. The brand that started the entire sub-A car category is now a veritable granddad, whose segment monopoly is increasingly threatened by a host of ...
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Design Review: Volkswagen BlueSport concept
As with the DRG, the rear end detailing takes its cues from the shoulder section. Taillights that ape the shape of the fronts are neatly linked by a horizontal shutline that mimics the narrow front grille and houses the VW badge. Above this, between the shoulders, is a full-width LED ...
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Design Review: Volkswagen BlueSport concept
Volkswagen isn't in the habit of making fanciful, pie-in-the-sky concepts. Not everything that hits the motor show floor reaches production but, as was the case with the much-lauded Microbus concept, this is almost always due to a change in financial fortunes, leadership or economic climate rather than an inability or ...
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Car Design Awards China winners head to Coventry University
Two Car Design China Award 2012 winners won the fantastic opportunity to spend two weeks in Coventry's Automotive Design department.
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Design Development: Land Rover Freelander 2
As inspiration for the chosen premium sports direction, a variety of technical sports equipment was looked at, including fishing reels, bike pedals and bearing races. The overall feeling of forms which have a chiselled billet-like character to them was seen as being the way forward. "They not only reflect expensive ...
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Design Development: Land Rover Freelander 2
The original Freelander, launched in 1997, is seen by many as having created a whole new class of vehicle: the compact premium 4x4. But much has changed in the last nine years for Land Rover: in 1997 the company was still part of BMW Group, now it's part of Ford. ...
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Design Review: Ford Vertrek
While the front end again calls to mind the Focus, the Vertrek's helps essentially the same theme work better. The lower corners of the car are particularly successful, with the blanked-off, cheap-looking triangular outer grille elements of the Focus banished. The bone lines that flank the grille and run up ...
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Design Review: Ford Vertrek
It's appropriate that the Ford Vertrek concept was the most significant car to be unveiled at last month's NAIAS.
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GM and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design develop Windows of Opportunity smart glass tech [w/video]
General Motors' Research and Development has collaborated with Bezalel Academy of Art and Design's Future Lab students to conceptualize new ways in which rear seat passengers - who traditionally feel disconnected from their environment - have a richer experience on the road.
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LTU Inaugural Transportation Design Show
On Thursday 8 May 2008, Lawrence Technological University (LTU) celebrated their Inaugural Transportation Design Freshmen Show at the school's campus in Southfield, Michigan. The Inaugural Show - sponsored Ford Motor Company - exhibited projects completed in a course of a single semester (15 weeks) from sketch to model by six ...
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Breitling commemorate ISR with new timepiece
Bentley's collaboration with timepiece creator Breitling is a well-established one, which stretches back years. The latest coming together between the luxury brands is in commemoration of Juha Kankkunen's world-record-breaking jaunt on the frozen Baltic Sea, off the coast of Finland.
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Autostyle 2012 announces design competition winners
Audi A8 conceptDaniel Alberto Sebastià and Ivan Milone
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Autostyle 2012 announces design competition winners
Mercedes F800 StyleMarco Sfiller and Matteo Zanichelli
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Autostyle 2012 announces design competition winners
Automotive supplier Berman has been gathering people of different nationalities to exchange their ideas in a familiar setting in Mantova, Italy for nearly a decade.