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Whos Where: Jean-Pierre Ploué promoted at PSA
Jean-Pierre Ploué, Citroën Styling Director since 2000, has been appointed Director of Styling for the entire PSA Peugeot Citroën Group effective October 1.
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Who's Where: New Design Directors Appointed at PSA
PSA Peugeot Citroen has announced the appointment of Gilles Vidal to Design Director for Peugeot and Thierry Metroz to fill the Design Director position at Citroën. Both Vidal and Metroz will report to PSA Group Design Director Jean-Pierre Ploué when they start their new roles on January 4, 2010.
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Design Review: Audi A8
Swing open the driver's door and the first thing you notice is that the unusually low aluminum highlight which runs along the rocker panel neatly rolls up along the length of the door openings to meet the kick plates.
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Design Review: Audi A8
It's easy to forget that when the first generation Audi A8 was introduced back in 1994, the four rings from Ingolstadt weren't considered premium enough to lock horns with the three-pointed star of Stuttgart or Munich's blue and white propellor.
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Volkswagen acquires Italdesign-Giugiaro
The Volkswagen Group and Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A. today announced the next step in their successful cooperation. The Volkswagen Group will take a 90.1 percent stake in Italdesign, including the brand name rights and patents.
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Design Review: Chevrolet Volt concept
The front end and hood are reminiscent of a conventional sports car, albeit with a 'chopped' roof and shallow side glass. Moving rearwards, you realise the shoulder line running off the front fender runs straight through the side DLO and re-emerges on the rear fender where the confident, sporty look ...
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Design Review: Chevrolet Volt concept
GM was one of the first makers to offer an electric vehicle in America with the EV1 of 1996, but recently they appear to have lost the lead in low emission cars. The Chevrolet Volt, introduced at the NAIAS in Detroit last month, is a new concept that not only ...
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Design Development: Opel Ampera
"The initial clay models of the Ampera were done in the E-Flex studio, with sketch input from the team in Germany," Ward continues. Work was shared between the two teams, with data control flowing all the time. The majority of properties were the responsibility of the E-Flex studio, but the ...
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Design Development: Opel Ampera
It's been 11 years since the first Toyota Prius went on sale and, new Honda Insight aside, few rivals have arrived since to challenge its dominance of the hybrid car market. That's about to change, however. The new Opel Ampera - and its Chevrolet-badged sister model, the Volt - will ...
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Driven: Chevrolet Volt
Meeting the Chevrolet Volt could easily have been an anti-climax. This is a design that ‘feels' nearly four years old — the concept first seen in Detroit in 2007. Together with the online hype surrounding it, and the part it plays in GM's renaissance, the weight of expectation is alarmingly ...
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Interview: Gorden Wagener, Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz
Why has Mercedes-Benz retained the twin headlamps for the new E-Class?"The twin headlamps have been a key element in the visual appearance of the E-Class since 1995 and are therefore one of our traditional recognition symbols. We didn't want to do without them. However, the headlamps are now no longer ...
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Interview: Gorden Wagener, Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz
Gorden Wagener is certainly a fan of the latest E-Class - the first vehicle that has been brought to production since he succeeded Prof. Peter Pfeiffer as Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz in the middle of last year. Having admired its ancestor when he was a child, the E-Class coupé ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class
The interior design, created by Andreas Frank and Jan Kaul, is far more original, referencing other Mercedes designs. It features elements inspired by aircraft engineering - ranging from the afterburners of the Grumman F14 Tomcat to the jet engines of an Airbus A340 - but it also reflects the bionic ...
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Design Review: Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class
When first revealed in 1997, the Mercedes A-Class was a small vehicle full of innovative features. Its monovolume packaging and sandwich floor were major steps forward for a brand that had created mainly large sedans, sporting coupes and iconic two-seaters - both in roadster guise and as gullwing door coupes ...
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Design Development: Mazda Hakaze concept
For the Geneva showcar prototype, a Mazda CX-7 chassis was used and modified as the base platform, complete with existing 2.3 liter DISI turbo gasoline motor. GRP moulds were taken from the milled exterior model and new exterior panels were added, mainly in GRP but with carbon-fiber used for the ...
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Design Development: Mazda Hakaze concept
In the opinion of many designers, Mazda has been producing some of the best showcars in recent years. From the first trilogy back in late 2005 and early 2006 we saw in quick sucession the Sassou, Senku, then the Kabura - all of them impressive statements of Mazda's growing design ...
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Design Review: Mazda Taiki concept
The interior, designed by Troy Trinh, is inspired by Japanese Koinobori - the decorative carp streamers that are flown in springtime - and takes the idea of an air tube being distorted by the wind. The passenger side is a calm white environment while the driver's side cockpit is ...
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Design Review: Mazda Taiki concept
The last twelve months have been an amazing year for Mazda concepts, and the Taiki shown at the recent Tokyo Show is the fourth in the 'Nagare' series to explore the idea of 'flow' design. The car itself was displayed together with the other 'Nagare' concepts for the first time ...
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Interior Motives Design Conference 2006
Click for larger imagesRobin Page, Dave Muyres, David Godber, Matteo ContiHan Hendriks, VP Industrial Design, Johnson Controls. Delegates on board 'La Nautica'Day Two panel: Andreas Wlasak, Martin Smith, Geoff Wardle, Dave MuyresConference room at the Docklands MuseumPhotos: Ultimamedia, Albrecht/MarschnerA warm and sunny London was the venue for the second Design ...
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Design Review: Citroën C-Cactus concept
The interior boasts a wealth of innovative features including seats with a molded, integral-skin foam covering and use of felt, cork and recycled leather parts. Like the Renault Altica and Nissan Bulldog concepts, there's no conventional IP but a simple cylindrical air conditioning unit that doubles as a center console ...