All Features articles – Page 10
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Would the real Toyota face please step forward? (we hope it’s not the one that looks like a ripped-out fireplace)
Would the real Toyota face please step forward? (we hope it’s not the one that looks like a ripped-out fireplace)
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Toyota’s origami-inspired stand? A bit flat, really.
Toyota made a big fuss about the debut of its new global stand design, dubbed ‘The Wave’
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Video: Toyota i-Road – i-Like the way you move
It’s easy to dismiss the Toyota i-Road concept as a straight copy of the Renault Twizy. But the way the Japanese ‘new mobility’ device moves is far more sophisticated than the rather agricultural French buggy
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Comment: Subaru Boxer Sports Car Architecture
Rumour suggested that Subaru was going to bring a new concept car to Geneva, based on the same rear-wheel drive architecture as Toyota’s FT-86
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Comment: Should Toyota have left the FT-86 alone?
The FT-86 II is the latest interpretation of the much-lauded FT-86 concept originally shown at the 2009 Tokyo motor show
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Comment + gallery: Toyota’s Yaris HSD concept
The HSD concept previews the design direction for the next generation Yaris, but there’s nothing groundbreaking here
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Comment: Toyota cleverness
Although there wasn’t much innovative design on show at the Toyota stand, I absolutely loved these clever hideaway ethernet/power connections at Frankfurt.
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Toyota NS4 hints at next-gen hybrid
Apparently, the ‘4’ in Toyota’s NS4 concept doesn’t stand as an unsubtle reference to what the next (fourth) generation Prius might look like
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Toyota RAV4: the fake sound of progress?
It’s easy to forget in the burgeoning world of CUVs that Toyota’s original 1996 RAV4 effectively gave birth to the segment
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Toyota Avalon: the cut-price Lexus fastback
It feels like we’ve seen the Toyota Avalon before, not only because it was previewed at the New York Auto Show earlier this year, but also because it incorporates so many industry-standard features
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Toyota Auris – worst interior of 2012
That’s quite a bold statement but then again the new Auris’ interior is quite a bold step 180-degrees from the right direction
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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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ArticleLuigi Colani - Translating Nature exhibition
One of the most influential designers of the past half-century, Luigi Colani, is the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London. With a career spanning almost six decades, Colani has applied his unique design style to produce cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, ceramics and consumer goods, as well as creating futuristic concepts for as-yet unrealized transport systems and architecture.