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Design Review: Alfa Romeo 4C concept
The front and rear aspects show the 4C at its best and worse. The front continues the theme first seen on the 8C, and sadly proves that on a smaller vehicle this face still feels very much a force fit (the similarly adorned Mito and Giulietta suffer equally). The composition ...
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Design Review: Alfa Romeo 4C concept
Alfa Romeo's future is perpetually in question. The firm has recently seen a comparatively fast turn-over of design directors; it continues to miss sales targets, and the 159 replacement, the Giulia, was recently rejected at the design sign-off stage by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne and his board. Pouring oil on ...
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Concept Car of the Week: BMW Z13 (1993)
Rear-mounted engine, three seats, central driving position, 830 kg. What might sound like the ingredients for a fantastic little sports car apply in fact to the exceptionally compact and exciting BMW Z13 concept presented in 1993 at the Geneva motor show.
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Design Review: BMW i3 & i8 concepts
The BMW i3 and i8 were both significant concept car debuts at the Frankfurt motor show earlier this month, giving us a taste of two conceptually similar production cars due within the next few years. We are reviewing them here together and from an exterior perspective only, because their greatest ...
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2011 EyesOn Design Awards
The 2011 EyesOn Design Awards, held at the NAIAS in Detroit last week, commemorated the late Chuck Jordan, a Founding Chairman of the annual EyesOn Design event, which celebrates its 25th recurrence this summer. Dr. Philip Hessburg, President of the Detroit Institute of Ophalmology - a non-profit internationally recognized organization ...
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Design Review: BMW i3 & i8 concepts
This then is the point that car design steps in to play its strategic role. It connects the new i brand to the BMW mother brand and it also signals how i-cars will be very different types of BMWs by emphasizing their unique technical attributes and thus focus on efficiency.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2014
Part of the trouble with the New York International Auto Show is that it appears wedded to Easter, which moves date every year and can fall anywhere between late March and late April.
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Exclusive: Franz von Holzhausen joins Tesla Motors
Car Design News has obtained exclusive information about Franz von Holzhausen's next career move. On Thursday of last week, von Holzhausen resigned from Mazda, where he was Director of Design at the R&D Design Center in Irvine CA, to become the Design Director at Tesla Motors.
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Who's Where: Micheal Castiglione joins Ken Okuyama Design
Micheal Castiglione, principal exterior designer on the 2006 Dodge Challenger concept car created at the Chrysler Group's now defunct Pacifica Studio on the west coast, has now joined Ken Okuyama Design.
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Show Review: Milan Design Week 2007
Zaha Hadid also found time to develop vases for Serralunga, as did Lovegrove and French designer Jean-Marie Massaud. All were huge and botanically-formed, though the negative volume of Hadid's piece was barely adequate for a single stem; the flower a flippant rationale for an otherwise highly emotional and extravagant product. ...
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Show Review: Milan Design Week 2007
Milan's Design Week has changed over the past few years. Spotting the sponsor's 'Interni' flag once promised new ideas and a glimpse into future homes, but though they still flutter outside the city's many boutiques their numbers have multiplied, now found outside more mundane stores keen to lure stray footfall. ...
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Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2008 - The Cars
Lexus, also in its fourth year, has become a pro at launching design events during the Milan Design Week. They have a clear vision of where the design of their cars comes from and stay true to their Japanese roots and culture. This is a winning formula for a show ...