All articles by Guy Bird – Page 12
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Color & trim focus: Six of Poltrona Frau’s auto collaborations
Collaborations between the car industry and the world of product design are fraught with difficulties, are usually fleeting and all too often end in (marketing department) tears.
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Behind the scenes and behind the wheel of the Volkswagen XL1
In terms of lightweight materials, the monocoque, body panels and bucket seats are all made using carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) with aluminum structures at the front and back and magnesium utilized for the wheels. Final kerbweight for the XL1 is 795kg - some 505kg more than the original 2002 ...
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Behind the scenes and behind the wheel of the Volkswagen XL1
That seating and proportional change - to a wider car with a staggered two-seat layout, with the driver slightly forward of the single passenger - was implemented on what was to become the XL1. "The XL1's shape is more comfortable", Wouda confirms. "We still needed to have the front surface ...
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Design Development: Ford Edge concept
Two concept models were built as they had to make appearances in different parts of the world at broadly similar times. According to George, the interior and exterior design phases were started at the same time, in early 2013:
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Design Development: Ford Edge concept
Vehicle type mid-size SUV ConceptLength 4,689mmWidth (exc. Mirrors) 2,119mm Height 1,699mmWheelbase 2,849mm
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
Call us creatures of habit or plain old-fashioned but we tend to kick-off our Goodwood Festival of Speed visits at the bottom of the hill in the Cathedral Paddock, where a normally unassuming bit of hardstanding on Lord March's estate becomes, temporarily, a classic motorsport pit lane and garage where ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
Just beyond the mid-engined wonders were another batch of US cars, but this time late-60s pony classics with a twist, like the 1968 Beverly Hills Mustang Mustero - turning the iconic Ford into a still strangely alluring pick-up...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
Cartier's ‘Style et Luxe' display is always high on our agenda and although this year's categories seemed a little more disparate than in other - featuring everything from pre-War supercharged Mercedes cabriolets to late-60s US Pony cars - there was still much to admire.
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
The last weekend in June sees Britain going crazy for outdoor entertainment: Wimbledon tennis, Glastonbury festival and, of course, Goodwood Festival of Speed, now in its 21st year. This year's featured marques include 120 years of Mercedes-Benz in motor sport and the centenary of Maserati, under the Festival theme - ...
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Design Development: Nissan BladeGlider concept
The unusual exterior proportions heavily dictated the interior package. With such a triangular shape, a central driver with two passengers behind was the logical conclusion. Early sketches were made from mid-to-late 2012 by young designer Yosuke Takaki, while the exterior design was still being developed.
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Design Development: Nissan BladeGlider concept
Vehicle type Three-seater EV sports conceptLength 4,200mmWidth 1,000mm (front) 1,890mm (rear)Height 1,140mmWheelbase, 2,800mm
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Book Review: Art of the Le Mans Race Car
Art of the Le Mans Race Car is the perfect Christmas gift for racing car lovers and an essential car design studio reference book.
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First Sight: Nissan Qashqai (2014)
Having already sold more than two million units worldwide in seven years, a betting man wouldn't have put money on Nissan designers ‘going all radical' for the mk2 Qashqai.
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Designer Interviews: Mark Fetherston, Mercedes-Benz exterior designer
CDN The 2009 SLS was your breakthrough car but it was stylistically quite different from other Mercedes of the time. How did it happen?MF It started back in 2006 as an internal project within Sindelfingen but then other Mercedes studios heard what we were doing and did proposals. No-one was ...
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Designer Interviews: Mark Fetherston, Mercedes-Benz exterior designer
Still only 36, Mark Fetherston has designed some of the most respected cars in the current Mercedes range. His breakthrough was the ‘gull-winged' SLS supercar of 2009 and he's had a hand in most of the company's significant exterior projects since, from the 2011 Concept A-Class and 2012 Concept Style ...
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Design Development: Renault Twin'Z
The interior features a flat floor with a pushed-back dashboard, gently ribbed door panels (with built-in ventilation) and a rear parcel shelf that together blend into one curvaceous whole with nature-inspired contour lines to express movement and flow. The few interior components - door handles, steering wheel and column, center ...
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Design Development: Renault Twin'Z
Vehicle type City car concept Design director Laurens van den AckerProject leaders Anthony Lo, Axel Breun, Ross Lovegrove Project manager Philippe PonceauInterior designers Ross Lovegrove, Matt Longbottom, Christopher Hermann (Lovegrove Studio) Color and trim designers Nathalie GrangerConcept car technical project manager Minh Au TruongProject started January 2012 Project completed April ...
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The Designers Pt1 - Gorden Wagener, Daimler
At this year's Geneva Motor Show, Car Design News launched its second Car Design Review yearbook, featuring the production and concept cars our judges voted as best designs of the past year.
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First Sight: Hyundai Intrado concept
Peter Schreyer's first Hyundai concept car, the Intrado, will officially be revealed at the 2014 Geneva motorshow next week but Car Design News got an early look at the fuel cell concept crossover's key design development models and spoke exclusively with Schreyer and his team about the car's importance.
