All Lead Stories articles – Page 2

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    Chevrolet Corvette walk around with Tristan Murphy

    2019-11-21T21:25:00Z

    Tristan Murphy, Lead Interior Designer of the Chevrolet Corvette, provides a run down of the vehicle to CDN before they presented it at Car Design Night LA 2019

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    BMW Design spotlight

    2019-11-12T17:47:00Z

    BMW has shown some really interesting Vision concept cars in the last few years, most recently, the Vision M Next. If you want to understand what BMW design’s aesthetic values are – the Vision cars are a good place to start.

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    News

    2019 Tokyo Motor Show preview

    2019-10-22T11:34:00Z

    All the big teasers, preview images and news announcements from Japanese car manufacturers ahead of the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show

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    Enovate - interview with Hakan Saracoglu

    2019-10-10T09:41:00Z

    Enovate is one of a raft of electric car startups in China which supposedly reached 450 at their zenith. “They’re consolidating now, it’s the right thing to do there were way too many” says Enovate vice president of design, Hakan Saracoglu. The Turkish born German national has fifteen years’ experience with Porsche along with shorter stints at Ford and Chery

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    First sight: Yanfeng XiM20

    2019-09-23T14:07:00Z

    Yanfeng’s Red Dot award-winning XiM20’s concept focuses on making a connection with people using a vehicle for short-trip travel, within a framework of the users being a group who value experiences over posessions

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    Concept Car of the Month: Hymer VisionVenture RV (2019)

    2019-09-13T11:06:00Z

    Experimental all-terrain motorhome, the Hymer VisionVenture, makes the American RV recipe look even more stale

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    Frankfurt 2019: Land Rover officially debuts new Defender

    2019-09-10T08:56:00Z

    After more leaks than, well, the old car actually… we can finally show you Land Rover’s reinvented icon properly, with the 2020 Defender making its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Car Design News takes a look at this design icon.

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    First Sight: BAC Mono R

    2019-09-06T08:30:00Z

    Design director Ian Briggs introduces Car Design News to the updated ‘R’ version of the unique BAC Mono. BAC’s team of designers gave Mono a full aesthetic evolution for the first time – although not without a fresh wave of mechanical updates as this limited run of 30 cars bridges a gap between the Mono we know and a next-gen car that we’ll see in the near future.

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    First Sight: Nissan Juke mk2 calms it down (a bit)

    2019-09-03T19:30:00Z

    Nissan’s long-awaited second-generation Juke was previewed across five European cities yesterday (Monday Sept 2) so Car Design News popped along to the London event – where the car’s design was born – to chat to Nissan Design Europe’s design director Matt Weaver about the evolution of this B-segment small crossover

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    Book review: Design between the lines

    2019-08-28T15:23:00Z

    Patrick Le Quément is a seminal designer who has worked at Simca, Ford, VW and Renault. This collection of essays is a tour de force through the design world of half a century and should be essential reading for anyone interested in design.

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    GAC Entranze - designed to share experiences

    2019-08-23T12:02:00Z

    Chinese automotive company GAC used virtual reality technology to connect the China and LA studios’ together to design this striking crossover-MPV for the Detroit auto show in 2019. Look inside and the fresh approach to the MPV typology becomes even more apparent - led by Pontus Fontaeus, its interior materials, textures and shapes create some really interesting themes for travelling with friends or family in the connected age

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    Exclusive: Roberto Giolito on the 2004 Fiat Trepiuno

    2019-08-21T14:38:00Z

    In the second of our series exploring the Fiat Heritage Hub, head of the new facility, Roberto Giolito, reveals a few secrets behind one of its most influential exhibits and his most famous design, the trailblazing 2004 Trepiuno…

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    Design Driven – Honda e prototype

    2019-08-02T15:45:00Z

    Honda’s Urban EV’s showroom car is nearly ready. That won’t be unveiled until the Frankfurt motor show, so we took the near-production protoype for a design drive

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    Mini Electric breaks cover (and keeps it simple)

    2019-07-11T16:57:00Z

    Mini’s first-ever production EV finally received its global unveil to select media this week (including Car Design News) to reveal a clean design and clear product positioning

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    Design interview: Benoît Jacob, Byton

    2019-07-09T13:51:00Z

    “We have the start-up culture of agile and quick decisions, but that does not offset the need for structure and good management”

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    Exclusive: Klaus Busse on Fiat and Alfa’s future

    2019-07-04T06:48:00Z

    On whirlwind tour of Turin in June, Car Design News made time for an exclusive chat with Klaus Busse, head of design for Fiat, Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Lancia on what’s next for the group’s key brands.

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    Q&A with YooJung Ahn, head of design, Waymo

    2019-06-27T10:52:00Z

    Celebrating 10 years of self-driving design development, Car Design News chats to Waymo’s head of design YooJung Ahn

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    Coventry Degree Show 2019

    2019-06-25T17:41:00Z

    Highlights from the UK’s biggest automotive student show

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    Magna Global Bold Perspective Award: meet the judging team

    2019-05-21T15:56:00Z

    Students entering Magna’s design competition will have their work judged by a world-class panel boasting production car, motorcycle, custom car and feature-film design expertise