All Editorial articles – Page 71
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Driven: Audi S5
Audi has a long heritage of producing big four-seat coupés, going back to the original Audi 100 in the late 1960's. The new A5 is an interesting new addition to the range that doesn't have many direct competitors. The BMW 3-series coupé is the most obvious, as is the softer ...
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Design Contest: Local Motors and Shell announce 'DRIVEN' [w/video]
Local Motors, the open-source car design community, has announced its latest competition. Working in collaboration with Shell Oils, the DRIVEN contest is an acronym for Design of Relevant and Innovative Vehicles for Energy Needs.
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Driven: Kia Picanto
The first-generation Kia Picanto was one of the cars that helped promote Kia from the lower half of the second-division to somewhere near the playoff places. Its combination of great value, five-door practicality and vaguely cutesy - if thoroughly unremarkable - design found it many a home on the driveway ...
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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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ArticleDriven: BMW X6
Why do people like some cars and dislike others? There are all sorts of reasons for sure, but there aren’t so many cars that one both likes and also dislikes. The BMW X6 takes this a stage further in being a design that is likable and unlikable for the same reason
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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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Driven: Citroen DS3
Modern of the moment aestheticThe use of graphics, color breaks and decals give the DS3 its modern feel that separates it from the Mini.
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Driven: Citroen DS3
The Citroën DS3's success has taken many - Citroën included - by surprise. The company has been forced to increase production since the car went on sale 12 months ago, in the light of unprecedented customer appetite.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Italdesign Columbus (1992)
Italdesign’s interpretation of a deluxe MPV, the voluminous and implausible Columbus, debuted at the Turin Motor show in 1992. It was one of those concepts that remained just that but Car Design News is very much a fan
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ArticleDesign Development: Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow concept [2011]
Building full-size models of its virtual entries for the annual LA Design Challenge is now becoming something of a habit for the Mercedes-Benz US Advanced Design Center. After the critical and public success of its Biome concept last year the California-based team developed another 1:1 model for this year’s competition, called the Silver Arrow in homage to the classic 1930s and 1950s racing cars
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EyesOn Design 2010
A young person with an autograph book and pen made the rounds at this year's EyesOn Design show in Michigan, collecting the signatures of selected designers on its creamy pages.
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EyesOn Design 2008
The highlight of the weekend is always the Sunday outdoor automotive design show, with this year's event featuring beautiful vehicles divided into 16 different categories, including 'American Classics from the 20's and 30's'; the 'Decade of Muscle'; 'Iconic European Design'; 'Windshield Wrapture' and 'Innovative Technology and Design'.
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Driven: BMW X3
The BMW X3 had the premium CUV market to itself when launched in 2004. Skip forward to the launch of the second generation and not only does the new version have a whole host of competitors for company, it also has to fit around its X1, X5 and X6 siblings.
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Driven: Volvo S60
Volvo has long been synonymous with safety. Yet safety has become mainstream; an attribute all brands own. Normal 0 false false false ...
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Driven: Nissan Juke
The new Nissan Juke, the smallest and most extreme member of Nissan's crossover range, is pitched as an 'urban proof' alternative to more conventional superminis. We took it to the streets to see how Nissan's scattershot small car strategy - which sees a range of four models occupying a similar ...
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Driven: Mini Countryman
But does the concept of a four-meter Mini translate to use in the real world? We tentatively took the keys to find out...
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Driven: Mini Clubman
The Mini Clubman is one of the most interesting - but polarizing - car designs on the market today. The first generation 'new' Mini was a big success for BMW, despite having been such a huge leap from the original Mini design in so many ways. With the second generation ...
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Driven: Renault Clio 4
Having pioneered the ‘small car, big-car features' trend with original version, Renault has sold over 12 million Clios since the model was launched in 1991. The box-fresh ‘91 Clio RT Renault displayed alongside its successors at the launch of the Clio 4 is testament to what a successful formula was ...
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Driven: Nissan Qashqai
On our increasingly congested roads and in our road rage aware society, there is a silent majority of drivers who don't want to feel they are being brow beaten by other road users. They don't want to make an aggressive or otherwise conspicuous statement with their car, they just want ...