All articles by Karl Smith – Page 15
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Vauxhall SRV (1970)
When a young GM designer named Wayne Cherry was asked, in 1965, to travel to the UK for a temporary assignment at Vauxhall, he eagerly accepted the invitation. In addition to automotive design, Cherry was an avid racer, and longed to see some of the legendary European races in person. It seemed like the perfect opportunity.
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ArticleConcept Car(s) of the Week: The Corvette Mako Sharks
One day in 1956, Bill Mitchell, who would soon become GM’s design chief, pulled up at a red light not far from the GM Technical Center. Beside him was a Ford Thunderbird driven by a young designer GM had recently hired and who had quickly made a name for himself with interesting ideas for the 1959 Pontiac and Chevrolet models.
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ArticleConcept Cars of the Week: Corvair Sports Cars
The humble Chevrolet compact inspired some surprising sports cars
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ArticleFirst Sight: Tesla Model 3
Elon Musk’s electric car for the masses finally makes its official debut
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ArticleConcept Car(s) of the Week: The Darrin Roadsters (part deux)
Dutch Darrin’s search for the ‘Holy Grail’ of sports cars
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ArticleConcept Car(s) of the Week: The Darrin Roadsters
Dutchman Darrin’s search for the ‘Holy Grail’ of sports cars
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ArticleConcept Car(s) of the Week: The Corvette Quartet (1954)
The Chevrolet Corvette is an American automotive icon. Introduced in 1953, it is the longest continually produced domestic car, still going strong at almost 65 years. But its beginning was shaky, and the sports car program was almost canceled before it had really begun.
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Amazon Prime: The Future of Cars?
The online service just might preview our relationship with the new world of mobility
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ArticleMaserati Medici I (1974) & II (1976)
A rare design misstep by Giugiaro led to a chance for redemption
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ArticleFarewell, Firefly – But Will Cuteness Die With It?
Is Google's canning of the “Koala” part of the end of ‘cuteness’ in automotive design?
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Fisker EMotion: More details revealed
Promises autonomous drive and a recharge time of just nine minutes
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ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright’s Lincoln Continental
This week marks the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary, if you’re not fluent in Latin) of the birth of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. All over the United States, and beyond, celebrations and exhibitions are planned and the architect’s contributions to modern architecture and city planning are once again a lively subject of debate and critical essays.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Renault Avantime (1999)
In the history of French car design, Philippe Guédon is a legend. While maybe not as well-known as Patrick Le Quement or Robert Opron, Guédon has been involved in the design of many vehicles from Simca, Matra and of course Renault. He is considered the father of the Renault Espace, a design widely attributed to designer Antonis Volanis but finally shepherded to production by Guédon for Renault in 1984.
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ArticleArt Center Spring Show 2017
Fine work from the the Pasadena college’s first crop of 2017 graduates
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ArticleChrysler/Simca Shake and Suzuki Go (1970 & ’72)
Some Holiday Fun from Bertone and Marcello Gandini
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ArticleLamborghini Bravo (1974)
For many, the recent crisis of 2008 through to 2012 was the worst downturn for the automotive industry in many years. But the mid-1970s were in many ways just as grim, though many of the players in the industry were stronger then and could weather the economic storm better than in recent crises. For makers of fine cars, however, those were desperate times indeed. But many of the designs of those years, some of the best ever, seem to defy the desperation and might fool one into thinking it was an automotive golden age.
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