All articles by Owen Ready – Page 17
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First Sight: BMW Zagato Coupé
"I've been looking for a way to collaborate with Zagato and Nori [Norihiko Harada, Chief Designer Zagato] for around 20 years," explains Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design as we stand in the shadow of the magnificent Villa Erba. "Last year at this event we had a ...
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Frankfurt Motor Show 2013 - Trends and Overview
The bi-annual Frankfurt motor show is always an exhibition of Germanic industrial might - for better or worse - and 2013 was no exception. Despite news of flat-lining car sales across Europe, the show was one of the defiant rolling out of new models. The number of production cars and ...
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Beijing Auto Show 2014 - Trends and Overview
With the New York auto show just one week earlier, many carmakers took the decision to use the Beijing show as their preferred choice of launch event. While the NYC expo holds decent sway on the US East coast, it could never hope to compete with the lure of the ...
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Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2011
The added dimension is the fact that each car is driven around the grounds of the Villa to the judging area, where the eight jurors including Lorenzo Ramaciotti, Robert Cumberford, Hideo Kodama and Patrick le Quément scrutinize each of the entrants. Seeing, hearing and smelling these wonderful works of art ...
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Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2011
The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este is the most exclusive, glamorous car show in the world. Companies such as BMW, Aston Martin and Ferrari took the opportunity to premier concept cars and bespoke creations at this year's event reinforcing its design-centric intent.
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Touring Superleggera Disco Volante and Ralph Lauren Bugatti win at Villa d'Este
The Touring Superleggera Disco Volante was the surprise winner of the Design Award for Concept Cars and Prototypes at 2013 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. It beat the likes of the BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupe, Aston Martin CC100, Infiniti Emerg-E and McLaren P1, although it should be said that BMW, ...
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Driven: BMW i3
Near-misses and truly surprising acceleration aside, the only other aspect that will raise an i3 driver's heartbeat above a rest is that elephant in the room of all EVs - range anxiety. BMW has gone to great efforts to alleviate this however, with an holistic approach to the issue. Key ...
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Driven: BMW i3
How many products claim to be innovative, game-changing, revolutionary? And of those, how many truly are? The iPhone has become a rather clichéd example, and for good reason - it transcends industries as an example of holistic innovation in a saturated market.
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Gilles Vidal: innovative materials key to Peugeot's future
Future Peugeots will be defined by their use of materials in a bid to shift the brand upmarket, according to design director Gilles Vidal. Raw, unprocessed materials, he says, will not only prove more ecologically sound, but also more engaging. And his plans don't stop there.
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Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011
To the south of the city, close to Duomo di Milano, a sculpture by Anders Warming and his team morphed each Mini model (including the original) into a three-dimensional artwork by extruding the silhouette of each car in multiple directions.