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Design Review: Opel Corsa
Last year at the Frankfurt motor show the new Fiat Punto, Renault Clio, and Toyota Yaris were announced; three important new European B-sector cars. Earlier this year at Geneva the sector's best selling Peugeot 206 was replaced by the 207 and over the next twelve months Ford will show its ...
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Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe
CDN: What makes Opel unique in design?"Maybe in the past it was a bit too focussed on functionality, so what we're trying to do now is really keep the functionality, in fact dial the functionality up several notches, but not let it compromise design. The design language that you're starting ...
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Interview: Mark Adams, Vice President of Design, GM Europe
On June 1st this year, Mark Adams became Vice-President of Design at GM Europe where he is charged with heading the newly-established GM Europe Design organization, including the Russelsheim-based GM Europe Design Center. He is responsible for the design of GM's European brands: Opel, Vauxhall and Saab, as well as ...
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Design Review: Opel Insignia
Just as the Insignia's exterior form language features strong use of symmetrical, harmonious shapes to communicate dynamism, the interior carries on the same 'sculpural artistry' philosophy blended with German precision. Adams is candid about recent, previous efforts with the Vectra - "pretty much up to Golf level for quality, ...
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Design Review: Opel Insignia
"We have worked incredibly hard to get the sculptural artistry into this car, and it's all about beautiful surfaces combined with these crisp lines of German precision" says Mark Adams, Vice President of design for GM Europe, to a room full of auto industry journalists and analysts. Surely no one, ...
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Interview: Prof. Peter Pfeiffer, Senior Vice President of Design, Mercedes-Benz
CDN: What do you do that is unique in your position as Senior Vice President of Design?
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Interview: Prof. Peter Pfeiffer, Senior Vice President of Design, Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz has one of the strongest design heritages of any car brand; all of its established model lines have progressed as evolutions of their predecessors and they in turn share key design cues with their siblings for a uniquely consistent design identity. This much is well known, but Mercedes also ...
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Who's Where: Laurens van den Acker appointed General Manager Mazda Design
Mazda Motor Corporation has announced the appointment of Laurens van den Acker as General Manager of the Design Division. He will take over from Moray Callum and assume responsibility for the overall design of all Mazda global products, based at the company's world headquarters in Hiroshima, Japan. Moray Callum will ...
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Beijing Motor Show 2010 Trends & Overview
In Beijing we noticed another version of this, with a thin grille linking the lamps such as on the Chana Green-i and MG Zero concepts to form a sharp 'W-shaped' monographic face. Yet another variant of this face is defined by the Visteon Q-e or IAT Cross Wind II concepts, ...
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Beijing Motor Show 2010 Trends & Overview
The 2010 Auto China show opened its doors in Beijing under the theme 'For a Greener Tomorrow' and, far from being a shallow slogan, the Chinese show was a clear demonstration of the seriousness with which the industry is rapidly changing to encompass the latest hybrid technologies in its new ...
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Design Development: Audi A8
In parallel to the exterior design development the interior design was progressed with a total of four full size models produced and the production car's horizontally themed instrument panel design dominant from early on, with Norbert Schneider, Mark Bergold and Enzo Rothfuss the main contributing designers.
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Design Development: Audi A8
Every vehicle design development story is unique, but the development of the new Audi A8 is in many ways an archetypal example of a new vehicle design programme, touching on so many of the issues that impact on the vehicle design process.
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Volkswagen to buy Italdesign-Giugiaro
Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A could soon become another group under the Volkswagen AG umbrella, according to Automotive News Europe. The industry publication cites two sources that claim the German company is set to buy a controlling stake in Italy's largest design and engineering firm, a deal which could be clinched as early ...
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Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
Though deliberately sparse, the interior strikes a good balance between the aesthetic consequentiality of engineering and stylistic touches from the designer, Crittenden successfully blending her themes of '...raw...dark...and brooding.' Time was also spent designing a bespoke seat that differed from typical race-modified options, Kingsbury instead creating a sedentary carcass, with ...
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Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
Design Development: Chevrolet WTCC Ultra concept
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Designer Interviews: Anne Asensio, Executive Director of Advanced Design, GM
Some people sky dive for thrills, Anne Asensio seeks an adrenaline rush at work. Deciding to uproot from her French homeland, leave a cozy job at Renault - where she took part in developing such successful vehicles as the Megane minivan and Clio subcompact - and move to another continent ...
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Interview: Bob Boniface, Director of Design, GM E-Flex vehicles
CDN: So are you going to be creating other vehicles using this architecture across other brands? Might we see a Cadillac E-Flex vehicle for example?
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Interview: Bob Boniface, Director of Design, GM E-Flex vehicles
Bob Boniface is Director of Design for GM's E-Flex vehicles, which opened last year in an existing space within the manufacturer's Technology Center in Detroit, Michigan. The goal of the studio is to create a new generation of environmentally conscious vehicles, driven by the E-Flex architecture, and by design.
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Design Review: Opel Astra
With an overall length of 4420mm, the new Astra has grown by 170mm. In the segment, only the Mazda3 is longer at 4460mm, while a Golf, by comparison, measures only 4200mm. The Renault Mégane and Ford Focus come in at with 4300mm and 4340mm respectively. With a width of 1814mm ...