All articles by Guy Bird – Page 17

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    Show Review: New York Auto Show 2015

    2015-05-05T19:42:19Z

    Last year's New York Auto Show wasn't a classic, with only one true concept unveiled. Conspiracy theorists (including us) pondered whether part of the problem was its late April start - due to being wedded to the fluctuating Easter calendar and thus clashing with the bigger and more important Beijing ...

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    Show Review: New York Auto Show 2015

    2015-05-05T19:42:12Z

    Last year's New York Auto Show wasn't a classic, with only one true concept unveiled. Conspiracy theorists (including us) pondered whether part of the problem was its late April start - due to being wedded to the fluctuating Easter calendar and thus clashing with the bigger and more important Beijing ...

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    Show Review: New York Auto Show 2015

    2015-05-05T19:42:02Z

    Last year's New York Auto Show wasn't a classic, with only one true concept unveiled. Conspiracy theorists (including us) pondered whether part of the problem was its late April start - due to being wedded to the fluctuating Easter calendar and thus clashing with the bigger and more important Beijing ...

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    Show Review: New York Auto Show 2015

    2015-05-05T19:41:57Z

    Last year's New York Auto Show wasn't a classic, with only one true concept unveiled. Conspiracy theorists (including us) pondered whether part of the problem was its late April start - due to being wedded to the fluctuating Easter calendar and thus clashing with the bigger and more important Beijing ...

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    Show Review: New York Auto Show 2015

    2015-05-05T19:41:50Z

    Last year's New York Auto Show wasn't a classic, with only one true concept unveiled. Conspiracy theorists (including us) pondered whether part of the problem was its late April start - due to being wedded to the fluctuating Easter calendar and thus clashing with the bigger and more important Beijing ...

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    Show Review: New York Auto Show 2015

    2015-05-05T19:41:45Z

    Last year's New York Auto Show wasn't a classic, with only one true concept unveiled. Conspiracy theorists (including us) pondered whether part of the problem was its late April start - due to being wedded to the fluctuating Easter calendar and thus clashing with the bigger and more important Beijing ...

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    Show Review: New York Auto Show 2015

    2015-05-05T19:41:38Z

    Last year's New York Auto Show wasn't a classic, with only one true concept unveiled. Conspiracy theorists (including us) pondered whether part of the problem was its late April start - due to being wedded to the fluctuating Easter calendar and thus clashing with the bigger and more important Beijing ...

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    Designer Interviews: Julian Thomson, Jaguar director of advanced design

    2015-05-05T19:30:54Z

    CDN How involved were you in the Land Rover LRX concept?JT I led the team that did the LRX. That was in a career break when I'd been at Jaguar for seven years, and wanted to do something else for a while so worked with Land Rover and Jaguar at ...

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    Designer Interviews: Julian Thomson, Jaguar director of advanced design

    2015-05-05T19:30:41Z

    Since joining Jaguar in 2000, Julian Thomson has been instrumental in changing the face of the British brand as its director of advanced design. The 53-year old has influenced the current XK, XF, XJ and F-Type production cars. He also created the well-regarded 2001 R-Coupe, 2003 R-D6, 2007 C-XF, and ...

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    Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation

    2015-05-05T19:29:52Z

    CDN How long were you together at Ghia?IC A year and half. I left Ghia and went back to Ford and started working in the same studio I'd left once before. But Peter Stevens said there was a job going at TWR [Tom Walkinshaw Racing] design studio and this to ...

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    Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation

    2015-05-05T19:29:43Z

    CDN Was car design deemed a risky career back then?IC There was general view at the time, even among my peers that you could never make a living out of art. I resented that notion. I genuinely believed, even at that age, that creativity had a value. Now people realize ...

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    Designer interviews: Ian and Moray Callum in conversation

    2015-05-05T19:29:13Z

    Ian and Moray Callum run the respective design operations of Ford and Jaguar and have been responsible for some of the most accomplished car designs of the last 20 years.

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    Nissan NV350 Caravan: fit for a whole platoon of Storm Troopers

    2014-11-14T14:33:49Z

    The sheer visual presence of Nissan’s latest people carrier needs to be seen up close to be believed

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    Beijing traffic chaos

    2014-11-10T10:09:25Z

    The Beijing motor show experience isn’t just about the show itself. Getting there deserves a mention too, for both good and bad reasons

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    Range Rover Evoque – Victoria Beckham edition

    2014-11-10T10:09:07Z

    The naysayers have been numerous and vocal when it comes to Victoria Beckham’s involvement in the Range Rover Evoque as a brand ambassador

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    Citroen DS Numero 9 highlights

    2014-11-10T10:08:48Z

    Citroen announced its intention to launch three new DS models due for production at Beijing

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    Daft Punks

    2014-11-07T15:23:31Z

    A rash of virtual reality Oculus Rift headsets broke out at the 2014 Paris motorshow as a handful of carmakers attempted to sprinkle some techno fairy dust onto their stands

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    Stand size isn’t everything

    2014-11-07T11:49:33Z

    The Geneva motor show doesn’t really have the space (or the inclination?) for the huge automotive temples Frankfurt seems to attract

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    Daihatsu does cool and detached

    2014-11-06T16:06:19Z

    Daihatsu might be a vaguely defined brand from a production design perspective but it has a strong record of concepts at the Tokyo show that punch well above their weight

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    Nissan IDx Freeflow & Nismo – a closer look

    2014-11-06T15:42:58Z

    We like nice surprises at CDN and Nissan provided not one but two at the 2013 Tokyo show