All Production cars articles – Page 23
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Driven: Land Rover DC100 concept
Nothing compares to natural daylight for assessing a car's design. Under motor show lighting the subtleties of the surface sculpting, detailing and even proportion can be lost and misconstrued. Hence our first view of the Land Rover DC100 concept out in the open is, quite literally, illuminating.
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Driven: BMW i8
When BMW unveiled the Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show, we wrote: "for our money, it's the first time a major carmaker has really attempted to communicate ‘green' technology in an aesthetic sense."
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Driven: Cadillac XTS
In the light of the new, global-focused ATS and hot-off-the-press CTS sedans, the full-sized, US-centric Cadillac XTS is somewhat of an anomaly in the new Caddy clan. It’s been earmarked as a stopgap flagship before a proper rear-wheel drive challenger to the Mercedes S-class and Lexus LS comes on stream. Car Design News took to the streets of Detroit to find out if it captures that big Cadillac v
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Driven: Citroën C4 Cactus
It wasn't our intention to hunt down random old Citroëns in the new C4 Cactus - on our first acquaintance with this new car in Amsterdam, they found us.
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Driven: Cadillac CTS
If you know Detroit, you might recognize the location of our photoshoot for this feature. Midtown is the home of Shinola's flagship store, one of the big success stories of the resurgence of ‘craft' in Detroit, and the States in general.
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Driven: Honda N-Box
In order to really understand the car culture of a country you have to drive on its roads, preferably in a vehicle indigenous to the place. So, when we found ourselves on the streets of Tokyo, the only logical choice was to take a kei car.
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Lexus IS interior: a new lead in the pursuit of perfection [w/video]
We’re impressed by the new IS. We’ve repeatedly criticised Lexus for failing to live up to its premium aspirations and for falling way short of the standarda set by Audi and BMW in particular. But with the IS interior, the company now has a core architecture and form language that makes the 3-Series look boring and the A4 old.
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Lexus IS – good ugly
Following yesterday’s disappointment with the Infiniti Q50 (not bad but lacking sparkle) all hopes rested on Lexus’ new compact premium sedan to take the fight to the Germans in this most fiercely contested of segments
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ArticleDriven: Renault Megane Coupe concept
Car Design News had the rare treat of driving a concept, the Renault Megane Coupe Concept (2008)
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ArticleDesign Review: Nissan Cube 2008
This is one of the most unusual mass-market car designs on the planet. Nissan describes it a ‘unique witty design’ that ‘offers a whimsical combination of squares and circles’, but the new Cube is a far more significant design than this superficial description suggests.
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ArticleNissan Cube to debut at the Tokyo Motor Show
Nissan Motor Co. has announced the domestic Japanese launch of the new generation Cube, which will be displayed at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show (Commercial Vehicles).
