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Goodwood Revival 2010
The Revival is one of two big motoring events hosted at Goodwood in the UK each year and has now become the world's largest historic motor race meeting, reliving the heyday of the Goodwood Motor Circuit from 1948-66. Of all the Goodwood events this is the most focused, aiming to ...
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Interview: Thierry Metroz, Design Director, Citroën
The big Metropolis showcar: Might this be developed for production and is this for China only?
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Interview: Thierry Metroz, Design Director, Citroën
Thierry Metroz is a rare breed in the car design world: a designer who has spent his entire career of 25 years working for the same company - Renault. In fact, many insiders tipped him to replace Patrick le Quement as head of Renault Design in 2009. But instead he ...
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Design Review: Peugeot SR1 concept
The interior by Julien Cueff - working under head of Peugeot interiors, Amko Leenarts - is perhaps even more impressive, taking its theme from modern yacht design. The instruments push forwards into the deep IP, their ‘3D' analogue and digital displays adding to this visual depth, and wrap back around ...
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Design Review: Peugeot SR1 concept
Audi was not the premium brand it is today a scant 15 years ago. In its native country it still had quite a dowdy image and in many markets the automaker was seen more as a slightly posh Volkswagen than a true BMW or Mercedes-Benz contender. But when the TT ...
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Design Review: Peugeot HR1 concept
The front end design is lifted directly from the SR1, including the new corporate grille and flowing shutlines that provide such a strong graphic quality to these latest Peugeot designs. Note the way the hood shutline starts a long way inboard, swooping outwards through the headlamp then turn sharply inwards ...
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Design Review: Peugeot HR1 concept
Peugeot design has gone through a massive shift in the last couple of years, not least because of a generation change in design management from Gerard Welter, through Gerôme Gallix to current design director Gilles Vidal in late 2009. Since then, we've seen Peugeot become quite aggressive in showing their ...
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Gilles Vidal on Peugeot's Design Direction
Peugeot's new 508 sedan and sport wagon unveiled in detail last week represent not only a new pair of family cars to compete against the likes of the Ford Mondeo and Opel/Vauxhall Insignia but the start of a new design direction for the brand.
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Interior Focus: Audi quattro concept
Monnerjan is full of praise for the coachbuilding skills of Italdesign, adding that "they learned a lot from us about Audi quality, and about materials and fitting, and touch and feel; and also through our fast process with CAD volume, checking it with this detail work - ...
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Interior Focus: Audi quattro concept
The 2010 Paris motor show saw the debut of the Audi quattro concept. Far from a retro, clichéd throwback, the 2010 quattro is more of an incarnation of the spirit of the legendary UR-quattro that dominated group B rallying in the 1980s.
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Design Review: Ford Start concept
The interior feels more generous and functional than other vehicles in this segment, and perfectly compliments the exterior with its high quality look and feel. A fine balance is achieved between organic elements - such as the wave-ribbing in the seats and headliner - and analogue, industrial elements such as ...
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Design Review: Ford Start concept
The Ford Start Concept was clearly a star at the 2010 Beijing motor show. In what it represents and the essence that it expresses, it is actually one of the most modern and rational concept cars seen in the last few years. In recent memory, arguably only the Pininfarina Duettottanta ...
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Chevrolet Volt App: taking car ownership into the digital age
However, easily the most important aspect of the Volt App is the control it allows the user over the car’s battery charging. Via the phone, users can set when the car should begin to charge up (meaning they can take advantage of cheaper overnight electricity tariffs), tell the car what ...
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Chevrolet Volt App: taking car ownership into the digital age
When the Chevrolet Volt began to roll off the Hammtrack production line at the end of last month, it became - together with the Nissan Leaf - the new poster child car for the digital generation. The Volt is, of course, most well known for being in tune with today's ...
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First Sight: Mercedes-Benz SL
The new high-tech, low weight Mercedes SL roadster receives its official global unveil next week in Detroit but Car Design News got an early peek of the final production car and had a chat with its designers at Mercedes' US advanced design studio in Carlsbad, California back in November.
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2009 EyesOn Design Awards
The winners at the fourth annual EyesOn Design Awards held at the 2009 NAIAS in Detroit last week read like a serving of alphabet soup, with the top awards going to Audi, BMW and Cadillac.
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EyesOn Design Awards 2010
There was no doubt that a new sense of optimism was in the air at the Detroit Auto Show. William ‘Willie' G Davidson, Senior Vice President and Chief Styling Officer of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and one of the chief judges of the awards, spoke of "a renaissance in design taking place ...
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EyesOn Design Awards 2010
Outstanding achievement in automotive design was recognized at the fifth annual EyesOn Design Awards held at the 2010 NAIAS in Detroit in January. Top honors were awarded to the GMC Granite urban utility vehicle in the Best Concept Vehicle category, and the Audi A8 luxury sedan for Best Production Vehicle.
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Design Essay: Pseudomotive Design
Meanwhile, Gehry has been working in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Wayne Cherry, formerly Design Director General Motors. Gehry has already discussed collaborating with Ford - before he mentioned his fee, a situation that has repeated itself with General Motors. But despite withdrawing his active role, the ...