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Paris Motor Show 2014 - Trends and Overview
After what has felt like a particularly long summer break, the car industry returned refreshed for the biennial Paris Motor Show. It's hard not to draw parallels between the Parisian event and its sister show, held in Frankfurt on odd-numbered years, but while the German expo is infamous for its ...
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Steve Mattin on his three new Ladas and the brand's design direction
At this year's Moscow Motor Show, Lada displayed three new models to its Russian home crowd. We took the opportunity to meet up with design director of Autovaz, Steve Mattin, to discuss these new cars and to catch-up with the progress made since his arrival in 2011.
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Out of Office: CDN will be back on 2 January
The Car Design News team has now finished work for the festive period. However, normal service will resume on Friday 2 January, before we head over to the US to bring you our CDNLive coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, beginning on 5 January, and the NAIAS ...
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Geoff Matthews, 1946-2015: one of the UK's great car designers
One of the UK's great car designers, Geoff Matthews, has passed away aged 68. The following text was written by Andy Wheel, chief designer - exteriors at Land Rover design. Andy worked for Geoff Matthews for ten years at Styling International, MGA Developments and Geoff Matthews Design.
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Concept Car of the Week: Porsche Panamericana (1989)
While the Targa Florio and Mille Miglia attracted racing legends to Italy, the Carrera Panamericana had the same effect in Mexico. The notorious event brought together drivers from all over the world for a road race border-to-border, where cars were pushed to the extreme, both on asphalt and on loose ...
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Designer Interviews: Julian Thomson, Jaguar director of advanced design
CDN How involved were you in the Land Rover LRX concept?JT I led the team that did the LRX. That was in a career break when I'd been at Jaguar for seven years, and wanted to do something else for a while so worked with Land Rover and Jaguar at ...
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Designer Interviews: Julian Thomson, Jaguar director of advanced design
Since joining Jaguar in 2000, Julian Thomson has been instrumental in changing the face of the British brand as its director of advanced design. The 53-year old has influenced the current XK, XF, XJ and F-Type production cars. He also created the well-regarded 2001 R-Coupe, 2003 R-D6, 2007 C-XF, and ...
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Ultrahaptics uses ultrasonic waves to bring virtual feedback to touchscreens
In 2013, a team of researchers from the University of Bristol, UK, showed how ultrasonic waves could be used to create the sensation of touching a virtual object in mid-air, without the user needing to wear or touch anything.
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford 021C (1999)
As Australian-born designer Marc Newson this week joined Apple, we can only wish that he brings with him the same smart-yet-playful approach as he did with his radical Ford 021C concept.
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Show Review: IAA Commercial Vehicle Show 2014
Every second year IAA in Frankfurt hosts the biggest motor show in Europe. In the alternate years (when the cars are shown in Paris) the heavy hitters - trucks and vans - have their own Internationale Automobil Aussstellung in Hannover.
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Fitness-focused autonomous vehicle pedals to victory in Interior Motives Design Awards
Earlier tonight, on the eve of the first Paris Motor Show press day, the world's top designers and automotive journalists assembled at L'Espace Clacquesin in Paris to witness sponsors Ford and Volkswagen announce the 2014 Interior Motives Student Design of the Year: ‘Life Cycle' by Jason Chen and Dirk Wan ...
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Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation
CDN How long were you together at Ghia?IC A year and half. I left Ghia and went back to Ford and started working in the same studio I'd left once before. But Peter Stevens said there was a job going at TWR [Tom Walkinshaw Racing] design studio and this to ...
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Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation
CDN Was car design deemed a risky career back then?IC There was general view at the time, even among my peers that you could never make a living out of art. I resented that notion. I genuinely believed, even at that age, that creativity had a value. Now people realize ...
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Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation
Ian and Moray Callum run the respective design operations of Ford and Jaguar and have been responsible for some of the most accomplished car designs of the last 20 years.