All Production cars articles – Page 24
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Driven: Chevrolet Volt
Meeting the Chevrolet Volt could easily have been an anti-climax. This is a design that ‘feels' nearly four years old — the concept first seen in Detroit in 2007. Together with the online hype surrounding it, and the part it plays in GM's renaissance, the weight of expectation is alarmingly ...
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Driven: Alfa Romeo 4C
One of the most exciting cars of 2013 from a design and driving perspective is the Alfa Romeo 4C, so Car Design News was more than a bit excited to get behind its wheel to see if initial promise could match real-world driving reality.
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Michelin Challenge Design announces 2014 theme: ‘Driven/Undriven: The Duality of Tomorrow’s Automobiles’
Michelin has announced the theme for the 2014 Michelin Challenge Design competition - ‘Driven/Undriven: The Duality of Tomorrow's Automobiles'.
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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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Driven: BMW Z4
Loved as it may be by its loyal fanbase, the outgoing Z4 was always something of a mixed bag in terms of design. While the car's classic long-bonnet, cab-back profile and short overhangs should have pleased the eye, the BMW's sheer frontal mass made its proportions seem out of balance. ...
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Driven: Volkswagen Golf Mk7
Walking up to the seventh-generation VW Golf, redesigned flip key in hand, you're in no doubt that this is a) new or - perhaps more importantly - b) a Golf.
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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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Driven: Land Rover DC100 concept
Nothing compares to natural daylight for assessing a car's design. Under motor show lighting the subtleties of the surface sculpting, detailing and even proportion can be lost and misconstrued. Hence our first view of the Land Rover DC100 concept out in the open is, quite literally, illuminating.
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Driven: BMW i8
When BMW unveiled the Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show, we wrote: "for our money, it's the first time a major carmaker has really attempted to communicate ‘green' technology in an aesthetic sense."
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Driven: Cadillac XTS
In the light of the new, global-focused ATS and hot-off-the-press CTS sedans, the full-sized, US-centric Cadillac XTS is somewhat of an anomaly in the new Caddy clan. It’s been earmarked as a stopgap flagship before a proper rear-wheel drive challenger to the Mercedes S-class and Lexus LS comes on stream. Car Design News took to the streets of Detroit to find out if it captures that big Cadillac v
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Driven: Citroën C4 Cactus
It wasn't our intention to hunt down random old Citroëns in the new C4 Cactus - on our first acquaintance with this new car in Amsterdam, they found us.
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Driven: Cadillac CTS
If you know Detroit, you might recognize the location of our photoshoot for this feature. Midtown is the home of Shinola's flagship store, one of the big success stories of the resurgence of ‘craft' in Detroit, and the States in general.
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Driven: Honda N-Box
In order to really understand the car culture of a country you have to drive on its roads, preferably in a vehicle indigenous to the place. So, when we found ourselves on the streets of Tokyo, the only logical choice was to take a kei car.
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Lexus IS interior: a new lead in the pursuit of perfection [w/video]
We’re impressed by the new IS. We’ve repeatedly criticised Lexus for failing to live up to its premium aspirations and for falling way short of the standarda set by Audi and BMW in particular. But with the IS interior, the company now has a core architecture and form language that makes the 3-Series look boring and the A4 old.
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Lexus IS – good ugly
Following yesterday’s disappointment with the Infiniti Q50 (not bad but lacking sparkle) all hopes rested on Lexus’ new compact premium sedan to take the fight to the Germans in this most fiercely contested of segments
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ArticleDriven: Mercedes 190E and Evolution II AMG
It’s not often you get a chance to drive mint-condition classic cars carefully restored and garaged by someone else, so when the opportunity arose to captain two very different Mercedes 190s back to back – a less-is-more 1984 190 and its definitely more-is-more 1990 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II cousin – we grabbed both steering wheels with all hands available
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ArticleDriven: Renault Megane Coupe concept
Car Design News had the rare treat of driving a concept, the Renault Megane Coupe Concept (2008)
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ArticleDesign Review: Nissan Cube 2008
This is one of the most unusual mass-market car designs on the planet. Nissan describes it a ‘unique witty design’ that ‘offers a whimsical combination of squares and circles’, but the new Cube is a far more significant design than this superficial description suggests.