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Design Development: Mini Clubman
The split-door opening is ingenious however. To allow as wide an opening as possible, the hinges are positioned outboard of the tail lamps and each door closes around the lamp unit. But it was complicated with the hinge point, the strut and the DIN regulations on the lamp too. "This ...
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Design Development: Mini Clubman
The Mini Clubman is the third derivative of the Mini family to be launched since its introduction in 2001. The unique station wagon body style references the original Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Mini Countryman introduced in 1960 under the motto "Revolutionary in concept, smart in appearance". Indeed, that slogan ...
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Who's Where: BMW Group reorganizes Design operations
Department heads of BMW Group design studios (left to right): David Robb, Ulf Weidhase, Ian Cameron, Adrian van Hooydonk, BMW Group Director of Design Christopher Bangle and Gert Volker Hildebrand. Click for larger image.. Click for larger imagesBMW Group has announced changes to its design organization, in keeping with ...
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Show Review: Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2008
Another Lamborghini was one of the favorites of Camilo Pardo (designer of the recent Ford GT). Seen with Christine Reed (Stewart Reed, ACCD), Camilo stated that the Miura lends itself well to the wild colors of the 60s, such as the bright blue metallic 1968 Roadster, with white and red ...
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Show Review: Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2008
Competitors from 12 countries and 27 States brought their world-class classics to California's Monterey Peninsula for judging in 24 classes at the 58th annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which took place August 17.
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010
Seeing cars such as these that have often only been glimpsed in photos makes one view them in a new light, to reappraise the lines and look at details more closely in the sharp sunlight. For instance, one forgets how the Carabo used mirror bronze glass and that the rear ...
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010
The UK's Goodwood Festival of Speed is the largest motoring garden party in the world - a unique summer weekend that brings together a great mix of cars, stars and motor sport ‘royalty' to create the largest car culture event in the world. Now in its 18th year, the Festival ...
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Jaguar's E-Type sculpture unveiled at Goodwood
As is tradition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, organizer, Lord March has commissioned a dazzling art piece to dominate the skyline above this year's event.
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Interview: Gilles Vidal - Director of Design, Peugeot
Talk to us about the recent concept cars. BB1, SR1, HR1 all feel like they're employing similar themes. What should we expect going forwards?
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Interview: Gilles Vidal - Director of Design, Peugeot
Gilles Vidal was appointed Design Director at Peugeot in January 2010. Previously Head of Advanced Design at Citroen, Vidal led the teams responsible for some of that brand's most lauded recent concept cars, such as the C-Cactus and C-Métisse.
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Goodwood FoS: Peugeot EX1 concept
So as the incredible 1907 Fiat Mefistofele is bump-started and chugs off the start line in a cloud of smoke, we're beckoned forward once again. This time the EX1 doesn't falter (check out the video to see the full motion image).
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Goodwood FoS: Peugeot EX1 concept
It's not very often that I'm up at six o'clock on a Saturday morning. Yet here I am, threading through the narrow lanes of West Sussex, trying to meet a ridiculously early call time with Peugeot at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Couple this with the adrenalin coursing through my ...
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Michelin Challenge Design 2012 'City 2046: Art, Life and Ingenuity' - The Finalists
The jury of the 2012 Michelin Challenge Design has selected and released images of its 27 finalists, chosen from a huge number of designs submitted by aspiring automotive designers.
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Hyundai at CES 2011
Hyundai proved to be one of the biggest automotive surprises here at CES. While Audi and Ford have grabbed the headlines, it's clear that Hyundai isn't far behind, and on this evidence, may even be ahead in some areas of in-car electronics, before too long.
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Audi at CES 2011
Elsewhere, Audi talked up the advanced nature of the A7's head up display, and Stadler promised that "In the future, drivers will be able to view a laser projected augmented reality head up display (HUD), with arrows actually overlaid on the road surface ahead." We've already seen this kind of ...
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Audi at CES 2011
Audi will position itself as the leader in in-car electronics, is working on augmented reality head up and 3D cockpits displays, and has already integrated NVIDIA's very latest Tegra 2 super processor to power the HMI of the next A3. Those were just a few of the highlights from a ...
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Michelin Challenge Design 2012 'City 2046: Art, Life and Ingenuity' - The Finalists
Elizabeth Pinder (UK)‘Nyx'This design's flowing lines and narrow body are intended to separate traditional ideals regarding aggression in both design and driving style.
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Ford at CES 2011
Ford has been the automotive darling of the Consumer Electronics Show for several years now. On Friday morning, Ford CEO Alan Mulally made a historic third keynote speech, during which he introduced the new Focus Electric and a host of new supporting technologies, which appear to keep Ford near the ...
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Dr Zetsche opens CES with keynote speech
Hot on the heels of the unveiling of the new Mercedes-Benz SL in Detroit yesterday, Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of Daimler AG hot-footed it to Las Vegas to open the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with a keynote speech that highlighted the company's direction in the ever-important tech ...
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ReLive: Frankfurt motor show 2013
If you missed any of our live coverage of the 2013 IAA Frankfurt motor show, fear not as here is a comprehesive list of the good, the bad, and the ugly (naming no names) from the show: