All articles by Joe Simpson – Page 6
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Peugeot Design Contest 2008
Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar from Colombia was last week announced as the winner of the 5th annual Peugeot Design Contest at the 2008 Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris. The 25 year old designer's winning 'RD' concept was chosen via an online internet poll and a competition jury headed by Peugeot's ...
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Essay: The Onset of In-Car Apps
The next logical step beyond this is being demonstrated by Jaguar, which will launch an XJ enabled with a docking system in the center console next year. When a Smartphone is inserted into the dock, the apps the user has on his or her phone will be mirrored and operable ...
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Essay: The Onset of In-Car Apps
For years now, many critics have suggested that the biggest area of innovation and change in car design is likely to happen in the interior. While it's natural to suppose that these changes will concern space use, thematic resolution, form and material, the most obvious area in which interior developments ...
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Essay: Open Source Car Design
In contrast, Riversimple's primary focus has been on eliminating the environmental impact of personal mobility. Collaborating with companies like BOC and Cranfield University, it has developed a lightweight vehicle structure and affordable hydrogen fuel cell system wrapped in a city car shell. Headed by Hugo Spowers (involved in the development ...
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Essay: Open Source Car Design
The concept of open source design has, until recently, existed almost entirely in the world of software and IT, with the best-known examples arguably Linux and Wikipedia. Originally referring to the open availability of the 'source code' used in software development, the process has its root in 1960s telecommunications protocols.
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Design Review: BMW Vision ConnectedDrive Concept
The orange of safety focuses on the driver, surrounding them with a ribbon of BMW's trademark instrument lighting color (much less distracting and easier to read quickly than other hues, incidentally). It focuses the flow of 'safety' related information into a 'cone of vision' ahead of the driver, defined by ...
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Design Review: BMW Vision ConnectedDrive Concept
The design world outside the rather insular automotive sector has long held the view that the car is increasingly irrelevant to the lives of many, particularly those who live in cities. Beyond the very basic conventions of the car's makeup, some suggest the automotive industry - and car design as ...
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Essay: The Electric Cars of California
When the Typ-1's designer - Jason Hill of Eleven LLC - saw this early prototype he knew instantly that "designed in the right way, the car could become something extremely special". The resultant Aptera 'Typ-1', the current prototype, is like nothing seen before. Although it utilizes a hybrid or electric ...
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Essay: The Electric Cars of California
The State of California is home to some of the world's biggest, most famous IT and technology firms, which, combined with the presence of big name venture capital and high levels of consumer and regulatory concern about global warming and pollution, has recently made the State the perfect incubator for ...
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EVER Conference 2008
With rising fuel prices, and taxation systems - particularly in Europe - increasingly favoring cleaner, greener vehicles, this event was notably busier than last year - the public drawn in by the chance to test out and drive ‘cars of the future'. Car Design News had the opportunity to drive ...
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EVER Conference 2008
'Maximum' Bob Lutz of GM may have recently told journalists he thought climate change was "a total croc of sh*t", but Prince Albert II of Monaco is clearly sold on the idea of the world's global warming problem - and does his best to position the principality of Monaco as ...
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EVER Conference 2007 - Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies
Toyota and Honda continued to show their dominance of the current market for hybrids - with the biggest, most auto show-like stands. As Thomas Mesnil of Honda explained to CDN, Honda is unhappy at being perceived as number two in this area to Toyota - having captured much initial attention ...
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EVER Conference 2007 - Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies
Whether the European Commission does or doesn't succeed in fixing a tight new emissions cap on vehicles by 2012, 'clean' is definitely in vogue right now. So it seemed appropriate that the eco-party last week moved to the French Riviera.
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Salon Prive 2010
The 60s big fin cars, meanwhile, were a sad reminder of how far Detroit's star has faded. Peering along the spike-sharp fins, rocket tail-lamps and fine detailing of a 60s Chevrolet Impala, then comparing it to the model of today, generates a tendency to go all misty-eyed and question just ...
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Salon Prive 2010
The popularity of concours and ‘cars on the lawn' events is growing. Visitors have the chance to get up close and personal with exotic vehicles new and old in environs that are typically more rarefied and less busy than the average motorshow hall. While for manufacturers, the chance to own ...
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Driven: Ford Focus
The previous two generations of the Ford Focus have consistently been near the top of the European best sellers list over their combined 13-year life spans, but this new car has even greater responsibility. This is the first Focus designed - from the outset - for European, American and Asian ...
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Design Review: Kia KV7 concept
Only a handful of new cars stood out in the Cobo Hall at what was ultimately a quiet 2011 Detroit auto show. Of those few it was perhaps the Kia KV7 concept that shone the brightest.
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Geneva Motor Show 2012 - Trends and Overview
We lauded last year's Geneva motor show as heralding a return of the good times in the car industry. The excitement that escaped motor shows of 2008, ‘09 and much of 2010 appeared to be back. Here, we said, was an industry back on its feet and showing off its ...
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Driven: Renault Fluence Z.E.
Just over two years ago, Carlos Ghosn shocked the world at the Frankfurt motor show by unveiling four fully electric Renault concepts and committing the company to being a leader in EVs.
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Interview: Gorden Wagener on the future of Smart and the brand’s ForVision concept
A lot of people mourn the loss of the roadster/coupe. Do you have plans to expand the Smart line-up further?
