All Article articles – Page 64
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ArticleHyundai Santa Cruz: head-turner or head-scratcher?
The design team at Hyundai talk through the truck-CUV mashup – and explain why they aren’t apologising for taking risks
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ArticleShinichiro Irie outlines the Nissan Z Proto’s design details
Shinichiro Irie unpicks Nissan’s sports car heritage, ‘Z-ness’, and provides detail on the Z Proto
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ArticleDesign review: Renault Megane
Renault plays it safe with the design of the latest Megane. Michael Nash takes the new model for a spin
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ArticleCitroen keeps faith in large cars with the C5 X
Citroën has another stab at a large car with the C5 X, which tries to be, at once, an SUV, a saloon and an estate
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ArticleInterview: Mitsubishi’s design chief Seiji Watanabe
Former Nissan and Infiniti designer Seiji Watanabe talks cross-brand collaboration and the new Outlander flagship
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ArticleRadford returns: coachbuilder that defined the swinging sixties is back
Legendary sixities coachbuilder Radford, which counted the Beatles and Peter Sellars as customers is back, helmed by a high-profile team including former F1 star Jensen Button
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ArticlePolestar’s sustainability mission becomes all-encompassing
Polestar hopes to produce climate-neutral cars by 2030, which could have a big impact on design
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ArticleObituary: The French maestro Robert Opron
One of the finest car designers of the 20th Century, Robert Opron, passed away last week, aged 89. Responsible for masterpieces for Simca, Citroen, Renault and Alfa Romeo from the late 1950s to the late-80s – and one of the few recipients of the Car Design News Lifetime Achievement Award – we salute his life and influence, via still vivid memories of visiting his house south of Paris back in 2016 to discuss his career over Scotch and Pringles…
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ArticleCar Design News podcast: March round-up
Kia. EV6, Hyundai Staria MPV and the Canoo pick-up truck are on the cards for this month’s CDN podcast
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ArticleState of the Screen
As technology has become more prevalent in car design, interiors have been marked by a steady proliferation of touchscreens. Guy Bird explores the near future to discover whether the black mirror is here for good
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ArticlePost Opulence: A Softer Tomorrow?
A decade or more of adversarial design and in-your-face attitudes has left us in need of a breather. Might a new era of post-opulent aesthetics mellow us out? Aidan Walsh hopes so.
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ArticleLexus LF-Z Electrified Concept – an introduction to a tasty not-so-distant future?
Lexus says it hopes to be able to realise some of the design features used in its new LF-Z Electrified Concept by 2025
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ArticleGenesis produces another swanky design study with X Concept
The new Genesis GT coupe show car puts imagination – and vast budget – on display
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ArticleYasutake Tsuchida named design director of Mazda North American Operations
Yasutake Tsuchida will head up all design operations at Mazda North American Operations
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ArticleCDN poll reveals giant touchscreen antipathy
A Car Design News poll confirmed what many already suspected – not many of us are fans of giant touchscreens
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ArticleWatch: Fireside chat with Patrick le Quement
Naval designer, author and former car design extraordinaire Patrick le Quement talks about his career and the challenges of design
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ArticleOpinion: Transforming old into new
Revered retrofit architects Lacaton & Vassal’s recent Pritzker Prize win poses some interesting questions for car designers, writes CDN editor James McLachlan
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ArticleWatch: Inside Toyota’s bustling ED2 studio
Ian Cartabiano, Toyota ED2’s president, takes us behind the scenes of the design studio in the south of France and provides a review of the Aygo X Prologue
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ArticleDesign Review: 2021 Lincoln Nautilus
With the Nautilus, Lincoln’s design team has focused on creating cohesion between exterior and interior designs. Car Design News’ Laura Burstein took a closer look
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ArticleWatch: Interior design fuses technology and materials
Design experts and professors come together to discuss the challenging relationship between materials and technology for car interiors