All Designers articles – Page 33
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Driven: Range Rover Evoque
As Sam Livingstone opines in his review of the latest Porsche 911, we are in a period of car design consolidation, with the new 911 the ultimate expression of a slightly suffocating trend.
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Design Review: Ford Shelby GR - 1
Ford Motor Company design chief J Mays introduces the Shelby. Click for larger imagesTHE Sketch2004 Shelby Cobra ConceptShelby GR-1 designers Matthew Hill (interior), George Saridakis (exterior)Photos: Brett Patterson, Marc Beauregard, FordWhat makes a good car design? One that sells well? One that car designers rate highly? One that you ...
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Design Review: Renault Modus
Similarly, its Down-Road-Graphic is generic Renault with MPV proportions, slightly cute lamps and a benignly smiling lower grille aperture.
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Design Review: Renault Modus
The first Renault to bear Patrick le Quement's stamp was the Twingo - a very small but very spacious, very charming but very clever 3-door monospace design. It was the first 'sub-B' car in Europe to share its slightly bigger sibling's platform, and proves the value of Renault's more advanced ...
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Design Review: Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept
The front face is typical of current trends in China. A slim band links the sharply-stepped ‘dropped' headlamps to create a broad monographic, with an underlying wide grille beneath the lamps that binds the whole face together - the IAT Crosswind II has a similar DRG, for instance.
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Design Review: Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept
One of the interesting aspects of attending motor shows is seeking out the lesser known - but equally fascinating - concepts from the suppliers and consultants to the major manufacturers. A recent example of this was the Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept shown at Auto China 2010 in Beijing last month. ...
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Essay: Retrospection
In the wake of Mays' departure, Audi took another step towards its Auto Union heritage with the fabulous Rosemeyer concept of 2000. Of course, much of the surfacing came from the TT, but the overall shape of the Rosemeyer is unique and the front graphic has now been successfully translated ...
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Essay: Retrospection
Hommage, reinterpretation, retrofuturism, learning from the past. Whatever you call it, retrospection has been a defining movement of car design over the past two decades. Touted as forging identity, this trend has been criticized as unoriginal, yet the success of numerous models recently spawned by it contends the forward-looking principles ...
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Design Review: Detroit Show Stands
Car Design News first looked in detail at the influence of pavilions and manufacturer stands at the Frankfurt Motor Show last year and how the industry, in general, has been quite slow capitalize on this potentially massive means of communication. Last month's North American International Auto Show was evidence that ...
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Design Review: Renault Captur concept
The Captur's interior is, if anything, even more of a treat than its exterior. Again carbon-fiber is a major structural material - the front seat frames mirroring the roof in mutual appreciation. And it's the seating that grabs your attention as soon as you put your hand up to the ...
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Design Review: Renault Captur concept
The Captur - Renault's second concept car in a series of six life stages - follows on from the universally liked DeZir, unveiled at the 2010 Paris motor show. After that car's remit of "falling in love", the Captur sets out to represent "two people exploring the world", bounding hand-in-hand ...
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Turin's Automotive Design Studios
"Turin is the Vatican City of car design" former Design Director Jason Castriota told us during our visit. "It all started here. If anybody were to make a list of the 100 most beautiful cars, then 75 percent of them would have been born here in some shape or form".
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Turin's Automotive Design Studios
Turin - the capital of car design. A bit of a cliché maybe, but few areas in the world retain such a concentration of design facilities. Detroit of course, the Paris region also, but in most other countries it's always been much more dispersed. In Italy however, it still continues ...
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Design Review: Bertone Jaguar B99 concept
The lamps are supported by strong blades of chrome underneath as a kind of powerful cat jawline and there are two piercing pinhole eyes in the blanked-off grille too.
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Design Review: Bertone Jaguar B99 concept
This is Bertone's 99th anniversary and, after last year's flamboyant Alfa Romeo Pandion, the firm was keen to show a more strategic concept this year as way of reminding the world of its breadth of capabilities.
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Design Review: Fiat Palio
The exterior also explores the relative upmarket position of the Palio using less unpainted plastic and a chrome details above the grille - referencing the 500 and second generation Punto. The Palio also sports the grille from the latter, which despite being bigger than technically necessary, is aesthetically very well ...
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Design Review: Fiat Palio
Fiat Brazil unveiled the new Palio in November, replacing the successful supermini hatchback that sold more than 2.5 million examples in the Brazilian market alone. The original Palio, internally called project 178, derived from the 1990s Punto's platform, had a reinforced structure to suit rougher roads than those of Western ...
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Design Review: GTbyCitroën concept
The design was modeled in ICEM and Alias during February-March 2008 and data files were sent between Polyphony and Citroën on a daily basis so that the virtual game GT could be developed simultaneously, in full detail. For Citroën there was no clay modeling at all: the hard model was ...
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Design Review: GTbyCitroën concept
The idea of a concept car that could feature in a film or virtual game is one that we see quite often from final year design students, but it's rare to find one that's an official project from a carmaker. Audi's RSQ from 'I, Robot' or the Lexus from ‘Minority ...
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Design Review: Toyota iQ
A number of interlinked innovations allow the interior to be as big as possible within the tiny footprint. Toyota has employed a center take-off steering rack and a differential that is mounted in front of the gearbox and crankshaft. This allowed the front wheels to be positioned 100mm further forward. ...
