All articles by Joe Simpson – Page 11
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Ford at CES 2011
Ford has been the automotive darling of the Consumer Electronics Show for several years now. On Friday morning, Ford CEO Alan Mulally made a historic third keynote speech, during which he introduced the new Focus Electric and a host of new supporting technologies, which appear to keep Ford near the ...
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Design Review: Alfa Romeo 4C concept
The front and rear aspects show the 4C at its best and worse. The front continues the theme first seen on the 8C, and sadly proves that on a smaller vehicle this face still feels very much a force fit (the similarly adorned Mito and Giulietta suffer equally). The composition ...
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Design Review: Alfa Romeo 4C concept
Alfa Romeo's future is perpetually in question. The firm has recently seen a comparatively fast turn-over of design directors; it continues to miss sales targets, and the 159 replacement, the Giulia, was recently rejected at the design sign-off stage by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne and his board. Pouring oil on ...
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Show Review: Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011
The Goodwood Festival of Speed began 19 years ago. Back then, it amounted to little more than a glorified hill climb for historic racecars. Since then, it has grown to become the biggest event in the UK automotive calendar outside of the Grand Prix, and takes over Lord March's West ...
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CES 2011 opens in Las Vegas
The pace of development in the world of consumer electronics - particularly touchscreens, smartphones and tablet devices - is increasingly influential on the world of automotive design. So with the world's biggest electronics trade show, the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), opening today in Las Vegas, we thought it high ...
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Consumer Electronics Show 2011 - Trends and Overview
Clearly, the mobile device and car interior soon won't need to physically connect. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will increasingly stream data between the two wirelessly, and Powermat technologies showed the solution to the other problem - battery charging. With its wireless induction charging pads, which from next year will be available ...
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Consumer Electronics Show 2011 - Trends and Overview
The Consumer Electronics Show is fast becoming a must attend event for automotive OEMs. One only need look at the booths of Audi, Ford and Hyundai to understand how important the show has become, and 2011 will be remembered as the year where the car and consumer technology truly became ...
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Alan Mulally joins ‘Innovation power panel’ Keynote at CES
An ‘Innovation Power Panel' Keynote was the highlight of the second full morning of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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EyesOn design awards 2012 winners announced at NAIAS
The Detroit-based EyesOn Design competition winners have just been announced at their traditional time, late on the second press day of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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Show Review: CES 2012
And despite car manufacturers historically suffering from fear of ‘not-invented-here' syndrome, when it comes to in-car-tech, most companies are increasingly keen to talk up their partnerships. Google was all over the Audi stand like a rash, for example, while Daimler announced an extended partnership between it and the Mountain View-based ...
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Show Review: CES 2012
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has become an important event on the automotive calendar. You only had to witness the presence of GM, Ford, Audi, Daimler and Kia in Las Vegas to realize.
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Design Review: Volkswagen Golf Mk7
1 Jutting chinVW started this jutting lower chin trend, which is now everywhere. Importantly for aero, the middle two-thirds of the lower valance are flat in plan.
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Design Review: Volkswagen Golf Mk7
First seen Paris 2012Lead designers Marc Lichte (exterior), Tomasz Bachorski (interior)Dimensions L 4,255mm, W 1,799mm, H 1,452mm Wb 2,637mmDrag co-efficient 0.27CdType C-segment hatchback, 3- and 5-door
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Interview: Clay Dean, Executive Director GM Advanced Global Design / Cadillac Brand Director
"Then all of a sudden, the aero wars took over and every car in 1979 looked like a Lotus 79. Today, look at the F1 field. The way that aero works, combined with the regulations, creates a field of cars that are almost identical. And to a casual fan, it's ...
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Interview: Clay Dean, Executive Director GM Advanced Global Design / Cadillac Brand Director
Clay Dean has one of the more interesting job titles in automotive design. Not only is he Executive Director of GM Advanced Design - with responsibility for the company's advanced studios in Michigan and California (and until recently one in the UK) - but he's Brand Director of Cadillac too. ...
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Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 - Trends and Overview
Every other Fall, the automotive industry slips on its most comfortable shoes and heads to the vast, sprawling show halls of Frankfurt's Messe.
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Design Review: Cadillac XTS
Visually almost indistinguishable to Detroit 2010's concept of the same name, the Cadillac XTS shown at the recent LA Auto show purports to usher in the next big step in Cadillac's more than decade old Art and Science design language.
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Driven: Ford Flex
When Ford unveiled the Fairlane concept in 2005, the company attempted to "rewrite the people mover story", according to Group Vice President of Design and Chief Creative Officer, J Mays. The Minivan, once the symbol of suburban America, had fallen out of favor - its dowdy, "soccer mom" image eschewed ...
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Design Review: Audi TT (2014)
It's surprising in many ways that we haven't seen this in a production car before - so simple an idea does it seem. Of course, to realize it is a huge technical feat and the simplicity with which the interface operates is delightful - Audi at its best.