All Cars articles – Page 60
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Saab 9X (2001)
With a glorious heritage, a strong and understated design philosophy combined with a focus on technology and innovation, it is sad to have witnessed how GM’s questionable management led to Saab being completely wiped off the map in just a decade.
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Driven: BMW 6 Series convertible
Every large BMW coupe - from the E9 3.0 CS, through the shark-nosed E24 6 Series, Claus Luthe's beautiful E31 8 Series, right up to the outgoing, Bangle-era E63 6er - has had an exoticism beyond every other car in the brand's range. We drove the latest from the most ...
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Driven: Delta Motorsport E-4
The Delta Motorsport E-4 is the outcome of three years of research, design and development that is key to a new generation of British ingenuity.
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Driven: Delta Motorsport E-4
However the car’s frontal aspect falls on the side of conservative - its DRG carries very little in terms of graphic to help set a recognizable face for the car. The Tesla-esque nose, with the bumper rounded in both plan and section, and the drawn back, twin chamber lights is somewhat generic and weakens the car’s identity when viewed in anything other than from the front three-quarter, where thos
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Driven: Audi S5
Driving the S5 out of London in slow moving traffic on a warm Friday evening, it was interesting to observe other drivers' reactions to the car. A new BMW M5 jostled to get a closer look, several Audi TT drivers nonchalantly pulled up alongside to cast a glance at the ...
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Driven: Audi S5
Audi has a long heritage of producing big four-seat coupés, going back to the original Audi 100 in the late 1960's. The new A5 is an interesting new addition to the range that doesn't have many direct competitors. The BMW 3-series coupé is the most obvious, as is the softer ...
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Design Contest: Local Motors and Shell announce 'DRIVEN' [w/video]
Local Motors, the open-source car design community, has announced its latest competition. Working in collaboration with Shell Oils, the DRIVEN contest is an acronym for Design of Relevant and Innovative Vehicles for Energy Needs.
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ArticleDesign Review: Mazda Ibuki
The Ibuki is a compact two-seat open topped sports car concept that is 330mm (just over a foot) shorter than the current Mazda MX5.
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Driven: Kia Picanto
The first-generation Kia Picanto was one of the cars that helped promote Kia from the lower half of the second-division to somewhere near the playoff places. Its combination of great value, five-door practicality and vaguely cutesy - if thoroughly unremarkable - design found it many a home on the driveway ...
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Design Review: Volkswagen Passat
With over thirteen million Passats built to date, the sixth-generation Volkswagen Passat seems set to become the benchmark family sedan for an awful lot of customers from Shanghai to Sherbrooke
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Driven: Ford Focus
The previous two generations of the Ford Focus have consistently been near the top of the European best sellers list over their combined 13-year life spans, but this new car has even greater responsibility. This is the first Focus designed - from the outset - for European, American and Asian ...
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ArticleDriven: BMW X6
Why do people like some cars and dislike others? There are all sorts of reasons for sure, but there aren’t so many cars that one both likes and also dislikes. The BMW X6 takes this a stage further in being a design that is likable and unlikable for the same reason
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Driven: Renault Fluence Z.E.
Just over two years ago, Carlos Ghosn shocked the world at the Frankfurt motor show by unveiling four fully electric Renault concepts and committing the company to being a leader in EVs.
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Driven: Citroen DS3
Modern of the moment aestheticThe use of graphics, color breaks and decals give the DS3 its modern feel that separates it from the Mini.
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Driven: Citroen DS3
The Citroën DS3's success has taken many - Citroën included - by surprise. The company has been forced to increase production since the car went on sale 12 months ago, in the light of unprecedented customer appetite.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Italdesign Columbus (1992)
Italdesign’s interpretation of a deluxe MPV, the voluminous and implausible Columbus, debuted at the Turin Motor show in 1992. It was one of those concepts that remained just that but Car Design News is very much a fan
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ArticleDesign Development: Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow concept [2011]
Building full-size models of its virtual entries for the annual LA Design Challenge is now becoming something of a habit for the Mercedes-Benz US Advanced Design Center. After the critical and public success of its Biome concept last year the California-based team developed another 1:1 model for this year’s competition, called the Silver Arrow in homage to the classic 1930s and 1950s racing cars
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ArticleFirst Sight: Land Rover Discovery 3
The Land Rover Discovery 3 is the latest iteration of the segment-defining original. Car Design News spoke to Land Rover design director Geoff Upex for an overview
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Driven: BMW X3
The BMW X3 had the premium CUV market to itself when launched in 2004. Skip forward to the launch of the second generation and not only does the new version have a whole host of competitors for company, it also has to fit around its X1, X5 and X6 siblings.
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Driven: Volvo S60
Volvo has long been synonymous with safety. Yet safety has become mainstream; an attribute all brands own. Normal 0 false false false ...