All articles by Owen Ready – Page 11
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Design Review: Italdesign Tex and Go! concepts
The 2011 Geneva motor show marked a new era in the history of Italdesign Guigiaro. The geographical repositioning of the Italian design house's show stand away from its traditional home among its peers and into the bosom of its new owners, the VW Group, marked the end of its independence. ...
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Design Review: MG5 concept
The SAIC stand in Hall E1 of this year's Shanghai auto show was dominated by an impressive display by its sporty brand, MG. As many of you will know MG (or Morris Garages as SAIC quaintly reminds us) was once a British manufacturer and while now under Chinese ownership, there's ...
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Interview: Daniel Darancou, Chief Designer for CH-Auto
CDN It seems that with so many brands now in China we have reached saturation point. Do you think there's still space for more?
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Interview: Daniel Darancou, Chief Designer for CH-Auto
With China continuing to lead the world in terms of economy and - as a result - the car industry, we caught up with a man with perhaps more responsibility and experience than most in the region, CH-Auto's Chief Designer Daniel Darancou.
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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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Interior Motives: Volvo You concept
The Volvo You concept is the sequel to the Universe show car that was displayed at this years' Shanghai Auto Show: a display of both returning Design Director Peter Horbury's vision for the company as well as that of its Chinese owners, Geely.
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College Exhibition: Royal College of Art degree show 2011
The annual Royal College of Art's Vehicle Design exhibition is one of the most eagerly-anticipated on the auto design calendar. We headed to its home in London's Kensington area to check out the work of the 16 students graduating this year, each of which has designed a vehicle powered by ...
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Show Review: Salon Privé 2011
Salon Privé is billed as Britain's most elite car show and, with its lashings of pink champagne, lobster barbecue and attendees who look to have taken a wrong turn from the UK scripted-reality show, Made in Chelsea, it's certainly the glitziest. This year Salon Privé moved from its traditional home ...
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Royal College of Art Degree Show 2010
As the name suggests, the Jekyll + Hyde Bentley has a spilt personality between the powerful stance and high-end luxury so indicative of the brand and a new, more efficient and innovative persona typified by the integrated wind turbine in the rear of the car. An innovative DRG shifts the ...
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Royal College of Art Degree Show 2010
Car Design News made its annual pilgrimage to Kensington Gore in central London for the opening of the prestigious Transport Design exhibition.Fifteen students graduated from the course this year all of whose work was viewed by a number of RCA alumni including Patrick Le Quément, David Wilkie and Peter Stevens.
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Design Review: Volkswagen CrossBlue and CrossBlue Coupé concepts
First seen NAIAS, January 2013 (Coupé: Shanghai Auto, April 2013)Type MPV/SUV (Crossover)Designed Wolfsburg, GermanyLength 4,987mm (4,889mm)Wheelbase 2,980mmWidth 2,015mmHeight 1,733mm (1,679mm)Wheel size 21-inch (22-inch)
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Whos Where: Pierre Authier to become Vice President of Design for Opel/Vauxhall
Pierre Authier is thought to become Vice President of Design for Opel/Vauxhall, leaving his current role as Peugeot Design Director, according to a source from within the PSA design department.
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GM and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design develop Windows of Opportunity smart glass tech [w/video]
General Motors' Research and Development has collaborated with Bezalel Academy of Art and Design's Future Lab students to conceptualize new ways in which rear seat passengers - who traditionally feel disconnected from their environment - have a richer experience on the road.
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Heuliez concept collection up for auction
A collection of coachbuilt specials and concept cars by French company Heuliez is to be sold at auction.
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Alfa Romeo: 100 years of design
The Cambiano factorPininfarina, meanwhile looks set to rekindle its similarly lengthy association, by displaying the universally admired Duettottanta sports car concept at the 2010 Geneva motor show. The design house is perhaps best known for designing two-seat, open Alfa Romeos, its iconic 1966 Spider design was produced for 27 years, ...
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Alfa Romeo: 100 years of design
That the company has made extensive use of the expertise of the carrozzeria in nearby Turin may go some way towards explaining the allure. Bertone, Italdesign-Giugiaro, Pininfarina and Zagato have all designed Alfas throughout the decades; having the badges of the masters of car design on the flanks of its ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2013 - Trends and Overview
To a casual observer the 2013 Geneva motor was surely a classic: “$4m Lamborghini!” “LaFerrari is LaSupercar!” and “VW XL1 - the car of the future, today!” read the headlines. And indeed there were some impressive cars unveiled in the halls of the Palexpo. Yet take away these key debuts ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2013 - Trends and Overview
As lamps become ever more complex thanks to the latest technologies, so they begin to incorporate other functions, most commonly inlet/outlet vents. This adds a new, three-dimensional element to what were once just standardized, round disks.