All Editorial articles – Page 70
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Coventry University Transportation and Automotive design Tumblr previews 28 May degree show
Coventry University Transportation and Automotive design students have set up a Tumblr blog in the run-up to their graduation show on 28 May.
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ArticleDriven: Volvo XC90 (2015)
Getting to know Ingenlath’s first Volvo in the real world, the XC90
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Coventry University student wins Alias Wavefront Student design competition
July 19, 2000 - Coventry University MA Automotive Design student Saharudin Bin Busri has just been announced as the winner of ‘Best Transportation Design’ category, in the Alias Wavefront Global Student Competition 2000, organised by software manufacturers Alias Wavefront, the leading supplier of computer-aided design software to the automotive industry.
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ArticleBMW GINA concept - 2008
In 2008 BMW Group Design revealed a revolutionary new concept car which utilises a flexible textile cover to form its outer skin. Called the ‘GINA’ Light Visionary Model - an acronym derived from the principle of Geometry and Functions In “N” (Infinite) Adaptions - the concept offers dramatically different solutions that affect the design and functionality of future cars. One of Chris Bangle’s most famous cars.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Fiat Scia (1993)
Although based on the Punto, the Fiat Scia looked so much more with its boat-like body shape and enticing stature
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College Exhibition: Coventry University MA Degree Show 2011
Bei LiTriad A three-seat urban vehicle that aims to reduce driver distraction. Triad is a reaction to the ever increasing and complicated HMI systems in car interior design. As technologies develop and more are shoehorned into the car interior, driver distraction rises in relation. By implementing such systems as HUD, ...
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College Exhibition: Coventry University MA Degree Show 2011
Late last year, Car Design News made its annual pilgrimage to Coventry to check out the latest MA students to graduate from the renowned school. Hosted, once again, by the Transport Museum, the night was an opportunity for the 15 graduating students to display their individual work, as well as ...
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Driven: Ford Mondeo wagon
Your impressions when looking at, getting in, and driving an unusual classic or sports car, are strong and distinctive. The value the design delivers is clear to see - the peaks and troughs of consuming the design are explicit.
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Driven: Honda FCX Clarity
It may be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell but the Honda FCX Clarity is no work-in-progress; its technology awkwardly shoehorned into an existing model. Nor is it a brittle concept without suspension banned from exceeding 30mph. It's a safety-tested four-seat executive sedan designed from scratch to accommodate hi-tech underpinnings.
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Driven: BMW 335i Cabriolet
Driving the car over the course of a week made us value details such as the hidden exterior door handle lights that come on at night when you approach the car, the way that the rear seatback folds forwards to give a large luggage area that can be secured (roof ...
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Driven: BMW 335i Cabriolet
The 3 series has come a long way. While the original 1975 E21 was initially only available as a two-door sedan, it was soon transformed into a cabriolet thanks to an aftermarket conversion kit by Baur. In 1982, the E30 was a two or four-door sedan until several years later, ...
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Driven: BMW 5 Series GT
It's an illustration of the place London has become that it's typically possible to park brand new or exotic cars on an average street and be met with studied indifference by the average passer by. So why, during a week of driving a BMW 5 Series GT, were we made ...
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Driven: Chevrolet Orlando
Chevrolet recently launched the new Orlando crossover in the UK market. The seven passenger vehicle - which eschews a conventional monovolume MPV package in favor of a more bulky, upright one that aims to fill the same need - will be sold in the North American market as well as ...
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Driven: Chevrolet Orlando
Inside, the Orlando doesn’t attempt to rewrite the rulebook, but it does bring a new level of functionality to the segment. The seven-seat layout of the cabin is akin to that of an SUV or crossover, not of a typical MPV. It feels spacious and roomy - especially considering the platform on which it’s built - and the top of the line LTZ model we drove features leather seats and piano black trim alon
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EyesOn Design Awards Winners announced
On the second day of the Detroit auto show, the traditional EyesOn Design awards took place in the newly-opened Atrium Stage of the Cobo Hall.
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Driven: a week with a Chevrolet Volt
Day 4 + 5By now, we’ve a clear picture of what irritates and delights about the Volt. The start up ‘whoosh’ never grates as we thought it might. The layout of the center stack buttons actually has strong logic and becomes much easier to use with familiarity, while grabbing the ...
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Driven: a week with a Chevrolet Volt
In Fall 2010, before the Volt went on sale in North America, we sampled an early build model and came away so impressed, we declared it the car for the digital age. Since then the car has received harsh criticism from the press and been outsold by the Nissan Leaf ...
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Driven: Range Rover Evoque
As Sam Livingstone opines in his review of the latest Porsche 911, we are in a period of car design consolidation, with the new 911 the ultimate expression of a slightly suffocating trend.
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Driven: Citroen DS4
Recomissioning the DS name looked like a risk to many outside Citroen’s headquarters, including us. And the new sub-brand’s opening salvo - the DS3 - didn’t exactly calm the worries of those of us who hold the original in high esteem. Where was the ingenuity? The originality? The depth of ...
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Driven: Vauxhall Astra GTC
To that end, Dyson worked on making the positive and negative shapes in the surfaces look organic, maximizing tension though the flanks and in the shoulderline to convey a greater sense of dynamism, which is also apparent in the upwards sweeping beltline. "Sometimes the simplest solution is the most iconic," ...