All CDN Live articles – Page 11
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Beijing Motor Show 2008 Trends and Overview
Taillamps that adopt a teardrop shape, wrapping well around to the side are another obvious theme; typified by the new VW Lavida. This graphic is very popular: the GAIG 4-Door Coupé, Buick Invicta concepts and BAIC 800 all display this motif. But interestingly, a visually-strong rocker/sill impression - highlighted by ...
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Beijing Motor Show 2008 Trends and Overview
China is a market where the four-door sedan rules. Other bodystyles such as coupes, sports cars or wagons are surprisingly rare in what is now the second-largest car market in the world (now ahead of Japan and set to edge out the US in the top spot by 2020). You'll ...
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Detroit Auto Show roundup
The 2012 NAIAS in Detroit, MI has proved to be exactly the dose of salts the US auto industry so desperately needed after a few very lean years for the event. Numerous concept and production cars made their debuts in the halls of COBO and, as ever, Car Design News ...
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Detroit Auto Show 2008 Trends and Overview
The biggest news in car design at the Detroit Auto Show this year was how the world's SUV brands are all exploring the prospect of smaller vehicles for their ranges. But that's not all. We also saw more crossover vehicles take to the show floor, new color & trim treatments ...
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Frankfurt 2011 - Best in Show
Given the array of new cars at motor shows, it's often difficult to pick one as the overall star of the show. While, in theory, there appears to have been a glut of new concept and production cars to choose from in Frankfurt, in reality there were less than a ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2011 - Trends & Overview
The Lamborghini Aventador, while beautifully executed, is little more than a refinement of the Murcielago/Reventon concept - odd considering its highly advanced new carbon monocoque construction. Think 'Miura' or 'Countach' - 'Diablo' even - and an image of entirely game-shifting flamboyance appears. The Aventador's proportions somehow lack the drama of ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2011 - Trends & Overview
The 2011 Geneva motor show more than lived up to expectations that this would be a vintage year for the Swiss classic.
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LA Auto Show 2010 - Trends and Overview
Elsewhere, the Mazda Shinari, aforementioned Ellure, and Hyundai's impressive new Elantra feel like a further message to customers that despite the growing number of niche products, the sedan still has much to offer, no longer playing second best in terms of features and quality to the SUV. Even Chrysler and ...
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LA Auto Show 2010 - Trends and Overview
Whenever we head to the US's west coast, it is always in the hope that we'll find the weird and wonderful of the automotive world. If that's not a cliche, then nothing is.
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Detroit Auto Show Retrospective
2013. A New Year begins, as does another year of motor shows, and with the first - the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan - taking place in just under two weeks, we're taking a look back through the annals of NAIAS history at the landmark events.
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Geneva Motor Show 2004 Trends and Overview
Nissan is also targeting this crossover area of hatchback and SUV to replace the slow-selling Almera next time around and used the Qashqai concept to introduce their ideas at Geneva.
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Paris Motor Show 2006 - Preview
The 2006 Paris Mondial de L'Automobile opens its doors with the media preview days starting September 28th and features a wealth of new concept and production cars. With around 1.4 million visitors expected, it remains the most popular automobile show in Europe and this year's major production releases will include ...
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2012
Still reveling in the successful reception of its Fusion in Detroit, Ford responded to the Impala by showing the SHO (Super High Output) Taurus, the erstwhile family car with a new Fusion style grille. That grille also evokes Astons and the shape of Superman's logo.
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Show Review: New York Auto Show 2012
During the New York auto show press days in early April, it was announced that the Volkswagen Up had been named World Car of the Year. But the Up was not on display at the show and if you polled attendees during the public days it is unlikely that five ...
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Show Preview: Frankfurt motor show 2011
The biannual Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung, or the Frankfurt motor show, is again due to take place this September, swapping places with its sister show in Paris.
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Geneva 2011 - Best in Show
Unlike Detroit, which generated a lot of hype for what turned out to be not as much new product as we'd hoped, the Geneva show was a true return to form, with all new vehicles occupying various different market segments making their debuts.
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Paris Motor Show retrospective
The 2014 Paris motor show begins this week. But while most attention is focused on the concept and production cars that will premiere at the Porte de Versailles venue, Car Design News has been taking a look back at some of the landmark vehicles unveiled at past editions of France's ...
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Detroit Auto Show 2007 Trends and Overview
The 2007 North American International Auto Show seemed a little quieter than for the last three years, with few introductions from European brands, apart from the Jaguar C-XF concept and the Mercedes Ocean Drive concept. Ford unveiled the most concepts - more than General Motors or DaimlerChrysler. Design trends apparent ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2005 Trends and Overview
Many stands featured 1970s cars as a reminder of their company's heritage. To support the launch of the new 3-Series, BMW showed a lovely 320i from 1975, plus a gorgeous 3.0CSL 'batmobile' from 1973. Alfa showed a Guilietta to support the release of the new 159, while Opel displayed a ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2013: Debutants [UPDATED]
The Geneva motor show will be held from from 5-17 March at the Palexpo center.
