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Design Review: Opel Astra
The Astra was and still is the most vital car in the Opel/Vauxhall portfolio. It usually accounts for a third of the company's annual sales volume and was one of the European market's top three sellers in recent years - though most of the time only as runner-up to its ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz Concept Fascination
The interior of the four-seater - sketched by Stopke but created with help from the interior design studio at Lake Como in Italy - carries forward the design character of the exterior while emphasizing European luxury. "It was meant to be our homage to Paris, inspired by the Longchamps Horseracing," ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz Concept Fascination
Times are tough for the world's oldest automaker. Workers at its German factory were sent on a premature Christmas 'holiday' as assembly lines were shut down for five consecutive weeks due to slumping demand for new Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
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Interview: Gorden Wagener, VP Advanced Global Design, Mercedes-Benz
CDN: What would you say is your unique approach to design - what do you do differently to other senior designers in similar positions?
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Interview: Gorden Wagener, VP Advanced Global Design, Mercedes-Benz
The car design profession is unlike that of other design or automotive disciplines in that there are many talented and productive car designers whose work never sees the light of day. With most production design programs seeing close competition between half a dozen to a dozen different design proposals at ...
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Who's Where: Gorden Wagener succeeds Prof. Peter Pfeiffer as Mercedes-Benz Head of Design
Gorden Wagener has been appointed Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz, effective from mid-2008. Wagoner will become the successor to Professor Peter Pfeiffer, who will be retiring after forty years of service at the company.
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First Sight: Mercedes-Benz A-Class
The first generation A-Class was the first front wheel drive passenger car from Mercedes-Benz and its first compact hatchback. Its revolutionary packaging and infamous encounter with an elk made a big impact in 1997, and since then over a million have been sold.
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Studio Focus: Inside Mercedes’ global design operations
The small team - 17-strong plus 10-15 freelancers - are also heavily involved in the company's fledgling non-car transport and product design business, Mercedes-Benz Style. Indeed, Jauch-Paganetti says the idea came from Como after the studio did some work for an Italian luxury boat business.
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Studio Focus: Inside Mercedes’ global design operations
Many carmakers have more than one design studio. Some have as many as three - traditionally in Europe, US and Asia to tap into those key markets - but only a handful have outposts all over the globe. Mercedes-Benz is one of that latter elite group with five passenger car ...
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Design Review: Mazda Sassou concept
Japanese car brands used to be renowned for their derivative conservatism relative to American and European car design. Mazda, like Toyota, Nissan (nee Datsun) and Honda, produced mostly unmemorable designs throughout the seventies and eighties, perhaps best epitomised by the first few generations of the 323. But unlike its larger ...
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Design Review: Mazda Sassou concept
Japanese car brands used to be renowned for their derivative conservatism relative to American and European car design. Mazda, like Toyota, Nissan (nee Datsun) and Honda, produced mostly unmemorable designs throughout the seventies and eighties, perhaps best epitomised by the first few generations of the 323. But unlike its larger ...
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Designer Interview: Peter Birtwhistle, Chief Designer, Mazda Europe
Peter Birtwhistle, Chief Designer, Mazda Motor Europe since 2000, has lived and worked in Germany for nearly thirty years, but his first car design job was in the UK. Car Design News caught up with him on his home turf at the British Motor Show in July this year to ...
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Designer Interview: Laurens van den Acker, Global Head of Design, Mazda
Laurens van den Acker says it's a good time for him right now.
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Design Review: Citroën C4
It's surprising just how swiftly Citroën have rejuvenated their entire line-up over the last three years with the launch of the C3, C2, C8 and now C4 models. As a replacement for the ageing Xsara, the new C4 is a huge step forward and best demonstrates how Citroën's core brand ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Revival 2005
The true legends of motoring history rolled out after this, with Babs, a 1923 Thomas Special, racing competitively for the first time since 1926. It was exhumed in 1969 after its burial for killing John Parry-Thomas on his attempt to break the 200mph barrier in 1927. Now restored, Babs has ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Revival 2005
For three days each year, Goodwood steps back fifty years as owners and drivers the world over bring their historic cars face-to-face in sixteen consecutive races. With participants and spectators alike dressed in tweed and fur, the post-war atmosphere is utterly convincing and quite unique, and brings battles on the ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006
Behind Cartier's jardin, Ferrari's prancing horses were docked within the Goodwood stables. Having its UK debut here was the 599GTB, displayed in attractive new Monza Red, and yellow, making graphics easy-to-read, though also exposing uneven paint finish and wide panel gaps. Fresh from a prolonged stint in their showroom on ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006
European car enthusiasts have been spoilt this summer: aside from Grands Prix circulating the continent, there were 24 hour races at the Nurburgring, Germany, and Le Mans, France, a Concourse d'Elegance in Italy, while Britain hosts the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Though only its fourteenth year, the Festival now claims ...
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Metropolis concept burns bright for PSA in China
The Metropolis is based on a stretched version of the Citroën C6 platform and the design team followed a conventional design process starting from sketching to digital modeling followed by a sole clay model and the final concept. Realized in just six months, with only one month and half for ...
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Metropolis concept burns bright for PSA in China
Recent weeks have brought news and rumors regarding PSA Peugeot-Citroën Group's activities in China, most about Citroën specifically. CDN therefore took the opportunity to hold a discussion with PSA's China Centre design director Oleg Son and senior exterior designer Matthias Hossann in Shanghai, where they shed some light on ...