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Show Review: Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2011
If you thought there was another motoring event that took precedence over Pebble Beach, you'd be mistaken. Now in its 61st year, the annual Concours d'Elegance marked the culmination of a three-day-long celebration that kicked off on Thursday night, with international automakers unveiling their concepts at exclusive events on the ...
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Interview: Jason Castriota, Director, Jason Castriota Designs
What makes you different? What's your unique approach to design?
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Interview: Jason Castriota, Director, Jason Castriota Designs
Jason Castriota's story reads like the stuff of boyhood dreams. Born and raised in New York, he spent hours sketching Ferraris growing up. A few years later, while still in the midst of a transportation design degree at Art Center College of Art and Design, Castriota was offered first an ...
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Kia opens new Design Center America
Kia Motors has opened its new Design Center America, located adjacent to the new US corporate headquarters in Irvine, California, about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The opening ceremony of the new US 21.8-acre Kia Corporate campus was held on June 24 and was presided by Byung Mo Ahn, ...
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EyesOn Design 2008
The highlight of the weekend is always the Sunday outdoor automotive design show, with this year's event featuring beautiful vehicles divided into 16 different categories, including 'American Classics from the 20's and 30's'; the 'Decade of Muscle'; 'Iconic European Design'; 'Windshield Wrapture' and 'Innovative Technology and Design'.
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EyesOn Design 2008
If seeing is believing, then the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO) does their share of making new believers annually, including those who are visually impaired. Originally founded in 1972 by Dr. Philip Hessburg and his associates in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, out of a genuine appreciation for fine automobiles, the DIO ...
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Alfa Romeo teases production 4C sportscar
Alfa Romeo has revealed the first official teaser image of its 4C sports car.
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Design Review: Nissan Esflow concept
With a small eye-shaped graphic higher up the hood and the larger main part of the lighting unit below the hood line in the front bumper (connected by a blue light), this graphic appears to be becoming a descriptor for 'electric power' in Nissan's line-up - it was also seen ...
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Design Review: Nissan Esflow concept
Nissan is leading the revolution in the development of mass produced electric vehicles with pre-orders of the Leaf standing at over 27,000 with a first year production capacity of only 10,000. This demonstrates that with early adopters the desire to own an electric car is strong, and Nissan is keen ...
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Ford Design Center set to expand
Symbolic of the importance it plays in Ford's small car strategy, the automakers Design Center in Cologne, Germany, is about to receive a €11.6m redevelopment.
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Concept Car of the Week: Nissan ARC-X (1987)
In the mid to late 1980s Japan's car industry was booming and with it its confidence. No longer satisfied with producing brilliantly engineered but worthy cars, Japanese manufacturers had ambitions of taking on the Europeans in the luxury market.
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First Sight: Daimler-BYD electric car design renderings leak out
Computer renderings of an electric car, being jointly developed by BYD Co., a Chinese battery and car producer that began making cars only less than a decade ago, and Daimler AG with more than a century of experience - were leaked for the second time this year. The car marks ...
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College Exhibition: GAFA - Jaguar Land Rover collaboration project
H.O.M.EWang Peihan & Liu Zhenxiang (Transport) and Chen Feng (Textile)
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College Exhibition: GAFA - Jaguar Land Rover collaboration project
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) students recently completed a collaboration project with Jaguar Land Rover, with a brief to design a vehicle for either brand for the Chinese market in 2022.
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Design Review: Skoda Roomster
Mar 22, 2006 – Two and a half years ago Car Design News published a Design Development story on the Skoda Roomster concept that debuted at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show. We described that car then as an “exquisitely designed Utility MPV that was a breath of fresh air”.
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Car Design News Reader Survey: Best current production car design is…
Mar 24, 2006 – As part of our recent survey, we asked Car Design News readers to vote for their favourite current production car design. The response produced some fascinating results, with the Aston Martin V8 Vantage being voted the clear favourite from over a thousand responses.
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Design Essay: Innovative Interior Trim
The exploration into innovative interior accent trim has finally begun.
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What's New - March 2006
Acura will present the MDX concept at the upcoming New York Auto Show.
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Design Review: Mitsubishi Concept-EZ MIEV
Mar 31, 2006 – Every so often one sees a design that you know is just ‘right’. The recipe is usually a combination of a good stance, beautifully resolved surfaces and strong graphics but there’s usually another ingredient: a heavy dose of really neat details that act to bind the ...