Nargess Shahmanesh-Banks
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BMW's new i concepts revealed
The i8, on the other hand, is BMW's proposal for an e-super sports car. "The silhouette is elongated and the look is a sports car for the future," said van Hooydonk. Based on the 2009 Vision EfficientDynamics concept, the i8's aesthetic echoes its extreme aero efficiency with a black band ...
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BMW’s new i concepts revealed
It was meant to be a modest, intimate affair for a select group of media. Yet as we flew to Frankfurt the day before the unveiling of BMW’s i3 and i8 concept cars, it became quite clear that this was not to be the case. With hundreds of journalists flown in from all over, a live web broadcast to the rest of the globe, and, for the first time in history, the entire BMW board present in one room, pr
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Design Services: Artware Concept and Dassault Systèmes
"You have the world of the designer on the one side, and on the other you have the world of the engineer, who are working to adapt things and to fix everything together," Grandjean explains. The connection, however, is often made difficult with software systems not always being compatible, which ...
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Design Services: Artware Concept and Dassault Systèmes
Concept cars are the creative work and the car manufacturers' future vision as expressed by their in-house design studios, but the physical sculpture, the one we see under the spotlight at motor shows, is often the work of design consultancies. It is at these independent studios that the conceptual study, ...
