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Contest: Volkswagen Slipstream wins 2007 LA Design Challenge
Volkswagen's Slipstream concept has won the fourth annual Design Challenge competition, part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designer's conference. The award was presented during the second press day of the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show.
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Contest: LA Design Challenge 2007
Mercedes-Benz SilverFlowGorden Wagener, John Gill and Kevin Kang from Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design of North America created the futuristic SilverFlow, a car that utilizes micro-metallic particles which can be arranged via magnetic fields to suit many different pre-selected model forms.
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Contest: LA Design Challenge 2007
No other city is associated with and as dependent upon the car as Los Angeles. The automobile allows freedom with the ability to decentralize, and with Los Angeles being the home to some of the country's first freeway systems, fast-food chains and drive-through banking, LA continues to play a significant ...
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Mazda wins 2008 LA Design Challenge
The Mazda Kaan concept has won the fifth annual LA Design Challenge competition, part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designer's conference. The award was presented during the second press day of the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, following a designers' luncheon and keynote speech by Daniel Simon, visionary futurist ...
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Driven: BMW X3
The BMW X3 had the premium CUV market to itself when launched in 2004. Skip forward to the launch of the second generation and not only does the new version have a whole host of competitors for company, it also has to fit around its X1, X5 and X6 siblings.
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Interview: Ian Callum, Design Director, Jaguar
CDN: So as you're working to move the brand forward, what creative stimuli do you value?"Cars. What stimulates me is clarity: clarity of language, clarity of intent. And I get incredibly stimulated and inspired by people owning the product. I discovered when I was doing the DB7, something I'd never ...
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Interview: Ian Callum, Design Director, Jaguar
There's been a strong Ford streak throughout Ian Callum's career. On graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1978, Scottish-born Callum was immediately recruited by the Blue Oval and spent the following 12 years working in the company's design studios around the world.
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Driven: Volvo S60
Volvo has long been synonymous with safety. Yet safety has become mainstream; an attribute all brands own. Normal 0 false false false ...
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Driven: Nissan Juke
The new Nissan Juke, the smallest and most extreme member of Nissan's crossover range, is pitched as an 'urban proof' alternative to more conventional superminis. We took it to the streets to see how Nissan's scattershot small car strategy - which sees a range of four models occupying a similar ...
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College Exhibition: Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan 2006
'Audi Morphos' by Giancarlo Veneto shows a complex architecture combining elements that derive from a station wagon along with a coupe-like impact. The package is something between the A6 and A8. This Avant proposal features clean lines, continuous surfaces and well proportioned volumes achieving an overall result of sporty elegance ...
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College Exhibition: Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan 2006
Students from the Car Design Masters course at Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan presented concepts for an Audi Avant for 2015 at the school's studios in late June. The presentation of the Audi-sponsored project was made to Walter de'Silva, Design Director Audi Brand Group, who was actively involved in the ...
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Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan 2007
Manuel Borrayo and Carlos Ron Magana proposed the 'Audi 50': a two-door hatchback concept that was inspired by classic Audi design from the 1970s. The concept is set to compete with BMW's new MINI and the reinvented Fiat 500. "Those cars are more like a toy," said Borrayo, "they are ...
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Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan 2007
Milan, Italy is well known for being a style center, so it's fairly apt that there is a design school based in one of the most fashionable and creative areas of the city. Scuola Politecnica di Design has been molding new designers for over 50 years and has a program ...
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Design Review: Infiniti Essence concept
The interior is probably slightly further away from production reality than the exterior. The burnt umber color defines the cocoon-like luxurious passenger side of the cabin and forms the base color for the instrument panel, while the instruments appear almost to have pushed out of this main IPl on the ...
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Design Review: Infiniti Essence concept
The Essence, in its name and Gran Turismo typology, tells us much about the corporate intent behind this concept car. While it's a luscious design, it begs the question: should the essence of the Infiniti brand really be a classical high-performance sports GT?
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Design Development: BMW 7 Series
BMW has showcased lightweight engineering principles on the 7 Series before, but the latest model takes this a stage further. The new vehicle comes with an aluminum roof bonded to a steel body. The hood, doors, front side panels and front spring supports are also made of aluminum. Did this ...
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Essay: Wood in Cars
Thirty years later wooden cladding was still found on the Wagoneer's replacement, the Grand Cherokee, speaking more of nostalgia than style. Conservative customers have prolonged the use of wood beyond what many designers would prefer, but now it seems that things are changing. Having never had a coachbuilding tradition, wood ...
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Essay: Wood in Cars
In the past, many materials have frequently bettered wood: by concrete for buildings, steel for ships and plastic for chairs. So how is it still in use in cars? The first car, the Mercedes-Benz three-wheeler, used it for the floor before its use grew to include the running boards and ...
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Who's Where: Frank Stephenson to move to Fiat
Frank Stephenson, Director of Ferrari-Maserati Concept Design and Development, is to move to Fiat to become Head of the Fiat, Lancia and Commercial Vehicle Styling Centre, based in Turin. Fiat Auto has seen a number of senior management changes within the last week, as part of an overall restructuring ...