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Has Jaguar found a tech solution to ever-thicker A-pillars?
Instead of picking up where the 2001 Volvo SCC concept's transparent A-pillars left off, Jaguar Land Rover has developed a more 21st-century solution to cure potentially accident-causing blindspots.
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Show review: Impressive array of concept cars come together at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta is celebrating an endless summer of automotive fantasy by exhibiting some of the most significant concept cars ever. Called Dream Cars, the excellent collection includes vehicles by almost every major auto designer of the twentieth century.
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Michelin Challenge Design at NAIAS 2015
Michelin Challenge Design is a collection of events and activities that reflect Michelin North America's commitment to innovative design. The objective is to gain knowledge of future automotive trends and their impact on tires.
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Pininfarina set to be bought by Mahindra
According to a report by Bloomberg, Indian carmaker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd is in talks to buy ailing Italian design house Pininfarina.
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Concept Car of the Week: Bizzarrini Manta (1968)
In the latter half of 1965, Giotto Bizzarrini began working on a racing car designed to compete with the Ford GT40, Ferrari 250P and the Porsche 906. The result was the P538, his most sophisticated car to date.
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Design Review: Lexus LF-SA concept
3D-printed foam panels used on door panels and center console. Looking like brittle bee honeycomb structures, they are actually quite soft, made of a resin with some inbuilt squashability.
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Design Review: Lexus LF-SA concept
Overlapping elliptical forms and new material combinations in the doors create a feeling of great space and lightness. IP has some French feeling to it - echoes of past Citroëns, such as the GS and DS even.
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Design Review: Lexus LF-SA concept
The stepped, lean-forward rear echoes the spindle motif of the front end and helps to place the glasshouse well within the wheelbase.
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Design Review: Lexus LF-SA concept
Undoubtedly the most controversial aspect of the whole car, the exaggerated spindle grille dominates the front end. The deeply-facetted 3D texture with matte and glossy contrasts directs the eye towards the large Lexus logo in the center. Many observers saw it as over-aggressive and detracted from the merits of this ...
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Design Review: Lexus LF-SA concept
Vehicle type 2+2 A-Segment hatchbackFirst seen Geneva Motor Show 2015
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Designer Interviews: Marek Reichman, design director at Aston Martin
"This isn't about me, it's about the brand," says Aston Martin's design director, Marek Reichman. It's a surprising statement from the man who has taken responsibility for the look of the British firm's products for almost a decade. But he's quick to qualify: "It's great how Philippe Starck's work always ...
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Concept Car of the Week: Peugeot Quasar (1984)
Peugeot's fortunes began to improve in the early 1980s when the Peugeot 205 became a sales hit. That car's form was perhaps the most successful work of then head of exterior design, Gérard Welter, while the interior was overseen by Paul Bracq, who joined Peugeot in 1974 following stints at ...
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Design Review: Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4
We don't normally cover details, as with the previous page, but not doing so would shortchange the exquisite work done by the Lamborghini design team. Not to everyone's taste and certainly not short on showiness, they nonetheless create a sense of exotic luxury that may hint at Lamborghini's future product ...
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Design Review: Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4
Badge of honor1. The glass and gold badging used all around the car are also truly exceptional and show real thought, care and a craftsmanship that demonstrates a shift away from outrageous speed and power, and towards a pure luxury experience. It is particularly successful on the Lamborghini script which ...
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Design Review: Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4
In the cards1. The door cards are intricate and beautiful, bringing brown and cream leather, forged carbon, and titanium (another first for Lamborghini) together to create a cohesive whole that sticks to the hexagon theme without feeling rigid or geometric. The contrast stitching adds a level of old-world artisan craft, ...
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Design Review: Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4
Subtle spectacular1. The rear haunches convey a sense of power when viewed from above, but lacked some presence on the show stand. Something that seemed to split the crowd in Paris between those drawn to its more natural beauty and GT aesthetic and the desire (demand?) for Lamborghinis to always ...
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Design Review: Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4
Old and new1. The high nose creates a knife-edged DRG that echoes modern Lamborghinis, while clearly referencing the Miura, Urraco and Jalpa.
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Design Review: Lamborghini Asterion LPI 910-4
First seen 2014 Paris motor show Vehicle type Two-seat supercar
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Latest BMW Stories video highlights the ever-dapper Paul Bracq, its head designer from 1970-74
BMW has produced a video interview with one of its most charismatic former design heads, the ever-dapper 80-year old Paul Bracq.
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Haval Concept R and Concept B to debut at Shanghai Motor Show
Following the successful Coupe Concept shown at last year's Beijing Motor Show, Great Wall Motors head of design, Pierre Leclerq, has confirmed to Car Design News that the firm's top-selling SUV Haval brand will show two new concepts at next week's Shanghai Motor Show.