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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013
With the temperature soaring over 30 degrees, Car Design News set off last weekend to the British south coast to check out the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This year's theme was simple: celebrating 20 years of the Goodwood Festival and how, in that time, it's grown from a small gathering ...
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Here's what we missed at the 2014 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este
This year's Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este took place over the weekend of 23-35 May. Bathed in spring sunshine, the lawns of the Grand Hotel Villa d'Este played host to the annual gathering of 50 of the world's finest classic and concept cars, and 35 motorbikes.
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Wayne Cherry receives Lifetime Achievement Award at EyesOn Design 2013
Renowned car designer Wayne Cherry was honored with a Lifetime Design Achievement Award at the EyesOn Automotive Design Exhibition at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Michigan.
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Automotive Press Association Design Panel says autonomous cars will tear up design rulebook [w/Video]
Fully autonomous cars will challenge everything we know about car design to date, according to industry experts at the Michelin Challenge Design-hosted Automotive Press Association (APA) Design Panel.
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Google continues autonomous car tests [w/video]
Google is leading the charge towards the production of a fully autonomous car, releasing a video earlier this week of the car being tested on a programmed route.
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Report: Connected Car Expo 2013
No connected car conference would be complete without a look into the future, and this year saw two dedicated discussions.
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Report: Connected Car Expo 2013
California is the largest, most influential auto market in the U.S., Los Angeles is home to many of the industry's design outposts, and Silicon Valley near San Francisco is home to the high technology industries that are increasingly influencing the design of the automobile. So it's fitting that the organizers ...
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College Exhibition: Umeå Insititute of Design 2013
Graduating Transportation Design students from the Umeå Institute of Design saw their end-of-year projects showcased in the college's annual degree show in front of industry representatives from Daimler, Volvo Cars and Audi AG amongst others.
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College Exhibition: Coventry University Degree Show 2013
Song Wei TeoRethink EVIn order to change the perception of EVs from soon-to-be obsolete, silent commuters into sports luxury vehicles with unique attributes, Song Wei Teo's project is a dramatic pod-like transparent cabin capsule suspended in a complex, web-like frame. The shape of its floor generates a distinctive sound as ...
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College Exhibition: Coventry University Degree Show 2013
As the sole surviving undergraduate course in Britain, Coventry University's Automotive and Transport Design exhibition has, of late, become as (in)famous for the sheer volume of graduating students as for the undoubtedly high quality of their work. This year marked a record with 107 students set to don the cap ...
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Design Review: Smart For-US concept
Continuing the advanced cabin temperature control first shown in the ForVision concept, the For-US reduces the (energy-sapping) HVAC system back to a single, exposed fan behind the gauge pack that feeds air around the cabin and up to the windscreen. The best bit is the proudness with which this usually ...
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Design Review: Smart For-US concept
1. Electronics referenceExposed ventilation fan behind the gauge pack adds playful electronics reference.
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Design Review: Smart For-US concept
1. Smart lampsRibbed lamps - that remind us of molded jelly - mirror those at the front, feature central storage bins for the charging cable and other paraphernalia. Squarcular graphics add an edge of ruggedness without resorting to aggression.
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Design Review: Smart For-US concept
First seen NAIAS 2012Design studio Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios, Sindelfingen, GermanyType 2-seat pickupDimensions (L | W | H) 3,547 | 1,506 | 1,701 mmWheel size 18-inch
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Who's Where: Sangyup Lee to join VW Advanced Design
Sangyup Lee, designer of the acclaimed Chevrolet Camaro, has recently resigned from General Motors to accept a position as Chief Designer of Exterior at the Volkswagen/Audi Advanced studio in California. Lee is scheduled to begin work mid-January 2010, reporting to Jens Manske who was appointed Executive Director earlier this ...
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Driven: Volkswagen Golf Mk7
Walking up to the seventh-generation VW Golf, redesigned flip key in hand, you're in no doubt that this is a) new or - perhaps more importantly - b) a Golf.
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Design Review: Cadillac XTS
Visually almost indistinguishable to Detroit 2010's concept of the same name, the Cadillac XTS shown at the recent LA Auto show purports to usher in the next big step in Cadillac's more than decade old Art and Science design language.
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Design Development: Hyundai Intrado concept (HED-9)
Vehicle type concept fuel-cell crossoverLength 4,170mmWidth 1,850mmHeight 1,565mmWheelbase 2,650mm
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Driven: Ford Flex
When Ford unveiled the Fairlane concept in 2005, the company attempted to "rewrite the people mover story", according to Group Vice President of Design and Chief Creative Officer, J Mays. The Minivan, once the symbol of suburban America, had fallen out of favor - its dowdy, "soccer mom" image eschewed ...
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Who's Where: Amko Leenarts appointed Ford's Director of Global Interiors Design Strategy
Amko Leenarts has been appointed Director of Global Interiors Design Strategy at Ford Motor Company, effective from 1 June 2012.