Pascal Boisse
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Design Development: Chrysler Minivans
The final design also had to manage pedestrian impact by raising the hood, to improve aerodynamics, and to achieve world-class quality with tighter gaps between body panels and components. But the toughest challenge was to make an emotional vehicle out of this minivan to rub out the 'soccer mom' image. ...
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Design Development: Chrysler Minivans
For the fifth-generation of the Dodge Grand Caravan - and its ritzy stablemate the Chrysler Town & Country - Chrysler is returning to their utilitarian origins, adding some well thought-out refinements on the way. In the U.S., this vehicle category suffers from such a stigma that designers felt they needed ...
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Designer Interview: Ralph Gilles, Vice-President Design for Jeep/Truck Color & Trim and Specialty Vehicles, Chrysler
At the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, Car Design News met up with Ralph Gilles, Vice-President Design for Jeep/Truck Color and Trim Studios and Specialty Vehicles, to talk about the Jeep Trailhawk that was debuting at the show and his thoughts about his personal approach to car design.
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Show Review: SEMA 2006
Year after year, the staples of the aftermarket industry that are hot rods and customs seem to be doing well. Recently, numerous reality TV shows broadcasted on specialized cable channels initiated a larger public - and also a new generation - to these fields. But there seems to be a ...
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Show Review: SEMA 2006
By its monstrous scale and attendance, the SEMA Show easily qualifies in the major league of international car shows: even though it is only opened to automotive industry professionals and media, the show attracts more than 100,000 people from all over the world. This year they traveled to Las Vegas ...
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Autoweek Design Forum 2007
The North American International Auto Show press days were followed again this year by the AutoWeek Design Forum. For this 14th edition of the Forum, the organizers picked 'Design for Success' as a theme for the conferences. And this theme was quite relevant given the gloomy forecasts made by some ...
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Big Three Truck Premieres
Once just a local agricultural fair, the State Fair of Texas, Dallas, has now become the launch platform of choice for automobile manufacturers to present new trucks.
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Boyd Coddington, dead at 63
Legendary Californian hot-rod builder and customizer Boyd Coddington, passed-away last Wednesday, at 63, from complications related to a recent surgery. His influence and legacy is immense, not just in the street-rod scene, but for the automotive design community as a whole.
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Design Development: 2010 Ford Taurus
With these tools the designers were able to view their proposal in different environments, get perfectly realistic images, change the lighting conditions and see the vehicle in action. "It makes a big difference when you see how the reflections shift across the surfaces," said Horbury. Lucas added how designers were ...
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Design Development: 2010 Ford Taurus
Reducing time to market is the Holy Grail of product development. With its 2010 Taurus, Ford’s North American design organization achieved what will be considered a milestone in the evolution of the car design process: a 100% virtual form definition and evaluation of the body surfaces.
