All Features articles – Page 4
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The three-box sedan: requiem or revival?
Stateside, the three-box sedan seems to be in retreat with VW withdrawing the Passat and Lincoln phasing out the Continental. Is it all over for this time-honoured format, or does its future simply lie elsewhere in the world?
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Car Design News: Best stories of 2020
The editorial team at Car Design News highlights their favourite stories of the year: Lucid Motors, Jeep and Land Rover all make an appearance
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Comment: Too much minimalism?
Everyone is a minimalist these days, but beyond being a handy catch-all for pared back aesthetics, what does the term mean for car design? Are designers sacrificing ornament at the altar of functionality as embodied by touchscreens?
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CDR 7: SangYup Lee, Hyundai
Hyundai’s design kingpin SangYup Lee on the Prophecy, Dieter Rams, and why he wants to create a car range that is like a chess set
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Hitting the e-SUV spot
OEMs are rushing to bring out more electric SUVs in a bid to meet emissions targets and protect margins. But they will require innovations in design and engineering to stay desirable and competitive in an increasingly crowded field
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The Metro: An Unexpected Journey
A stellar online exhibition on the Austin Metro by the British Motor Museum prompted an unexpected A-series engine-powered trip down memory lane for CDN editor James McLachlan
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Concept Cars: All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Show?
The star turns of the motor show, concept cars provoke, excite and inspire. But what happens to the special guests when the party is cancelled?
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How Mazda matched colour with design
Mazda has developed paint coatings and application technology to fit with its vehicle design philosophy to both enhance the aesthetics and be environmentally sustainable
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Concept Car of the Month: Gran Turismo Red Bull X1 (2010-19)
Looking back to when a Formula 1 team and a video game studio collaborated to design the ultimate racing car
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Design Essay: Surprise & delight, the importance of detail design
What makes people fall in love with cars? Aidan Walsh argues that small details in design cement long-term love affairs with vehicles
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Designer profile: Simon Humphries, head of design, Toyota
Two years in at the top job, Car Design News chats to Simon Humphries, head of design for Toyota and Lexus
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Jukeboxes: the unlikely automotive influence
A look at the connection between mid-century American cars and jukeboxes
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Interior Motives
2020 Trend Report by CnTFactory
CnTFactory has teamed up with CDN and Interior Motives magazine to provide a quarterly report on the trends that every automotive designer should have in their moodboards
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The inside story of Land Rover’s new Defender
The interiors design team at Land Rover created a new look for the Defender interior with cunning storage solutions and rugged sophistication
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Land Rover Defender 2019
Land Rover’s new Defender has taken enough elements of the old Defender to respect the heritage, while playfully updating and reinterpreting the brand identitiy for a modern context. CDN spoke to Massimo Frascella, Gerry McGovern and Andy Wheel about the exterior design. The full interior story will follow in a few weeks…
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Design Essay: The Strange Allure of Ugliness
Are tastes changing, or is taste simply disappearing? We try not to cover our eyes…
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Mercedes moves into France’s tech hub (near Nice)
Car Design News strolled around the futuristic new Mercedes-Benz advanced design studio in Nice, France, where the German brand’s heads of department showed us around and explained the reasons for the move
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Signs of Design: Geely’s new Shanghai studio
Geely Design moved its main China facility into an anonymous looking site near Shanghai South Station in June. Studio chief Guy Burgoyne gave us a little tour
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Iconic BMW designs: the 2002tii
BMW fan and M-car obsessive Steve Carter highlights his Top 5 BMW cars of all time, starting with the legendary BMW 2002tii
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BMW Design spotlight
BMW has shown some really interesting Vision concept cars in the last few years, most recently, the Vision M Next. If you want to understand what BMW design’s aesthetic values are – the Vision cars are a good place to start.