All articles by Sam Livingstone – Page 10
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Design Review: Mazda Sassou concept
Japanese car brands used to be renowned for their derivative conservatism relative to American and European car design. Mazda, like Toyota, Nissan (nee Datsun) and Honda, produced mostly unmemorable designs throughout the seventies and eighties, perhaps best epitomised by the first few generations of the 323. But unlike its larger ...
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Design Review: Mazda Sassou concept
Japanese car brands used to be renowned for their derivative conservatism relative to American and European car design. Mazda, like Toyota, Nissan (nee Datsun) and Honda, produced mostly unmemorable designs throughout the seventies and eighties, perhaps best epitomised by the first few generations of the 323. But unlike its larger ...
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Designer Interview: Peter Birtwhistle, Chief Designer, Mazda Europe
Peter Birtwhistle, Chief Designer, Mazda Motor Europe since 2000, has lived and worked in Germany for nearly thirty years, but his first car design job was in the UK. Car Design News caught up with him on his home turf at the British Motor Show in July this year to ...
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Designer Interview: Jerome Gallix, Co-Director Peugeot Design
Traditionally, if one thinks of French car design, Citroen comes to mind with its iconic 2CV and DS being as inextricably French as a Pastis before dinner - the perfect props to enhance any French film. But in more recent times Citroens have diminished in their 'Frenchness' and Renault has ...
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Design Review: Peugeot SR1 concept
The interior by Julien Cueff - working under head of Peugeot interiors, Amko Leenarts - is perhaps even more impressive, taking its theme from modern yacht design. The instruments push forwards into the deep IP, their ‘3D' analogue and digital displays adding to this visual depth, and wrap back around ...
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Design Review: Peugeot SR1 concept
Audi was not the premium brand it is today a scant 15 years ago. In its native country it still had quite a dowdy image and in many markets the automaker was seen more as a slightly posh Volkswagen than a true BMW or Mercedes-Benz contender. But when the TT ...
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ArticleDesign review: Mazda Furai concept
The Mazda Furai concept was developed at the Mazda North American Operations design studio
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Design Review: BMW i3 & i8 concepts
The BMW i3 and i8 were both significant concept car debuts at the Frankfurt motor show earlier this month, giving us a taste of two conceptually similar production cars due within the next few years. We are reviewing them here together and from an exterior perspective only, because their greatest ...
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Design Review: BMW i3 & i8 concepts
This then is the point that car design steps in to play its strategic role. It connects the new i brand to the BMW mother brand and it also signals how i-cars will be very different types of BMWs by emphasizing their unique technical attributes and thus focus on efficiency.
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Design Development: Saab Aero X concept
The full size exterior, for which much credit must also go to the modeler and Alias Designer Shoichiro Sasai, was signed off by Nesbitt and Lo in May after several outside dynoc reviews. The wheels, mirrors and exhaust designed and sketched in Alias by Daniel were also chosen in May ...
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ArticleDesign Development: Saab Aero X concept
‘The ultimate vision for the brand’. This was the simple brief for the Saab Aero X concept car shown at the Geneva motor show in 2006.
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Design Review: Giugiaro Ferrari GG50 concept
The two notable aspects at the rear are that it appears narrower than before due to the greater plan shape and that the outer two classic Ferrari round lights are now larger than the inner two.Inside the car differs less from the 612, with a revised dashboard layout featuring a ...
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Design Review: Giugiaro Ferrari GG50 concept
Giorgetto Giugiaro, the world's most prolific car designer, has created concepts for every car brand from his native Italy, but for its most famous. This is a world first, a Ferrari by Giugiaro which, in his own words: "to mark 50 years of activity in the world of car design, ...
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Design Review: Alfa 8C Competizione
Sitting inside the car on platted leather bucket seats, the view ahead is the classic sports car view of front fenders and the top of the high set steering wheel, framed by the relatively upright and curving inward A-pillar. The interior design identity is simple with none of the extraneous ...
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Design Review: Alfa 8C Competizione
The car designs that win competitions, that people in bars discuss, that even car designers describe as their favourite, are mostly sports cars - the exterior forms of sports cars. Whilst people describe the design of a kettle or toaster in terms of ergonomics or how evenly it toasts a ...
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Design Development: BMW Z4
With its roof down, a roadster's interior becomes part of its exterior, so it was particularly important that there was an empathy between interior and exterior design development, afforded in part at BMW by its designers doing both exterior and interior work (the Z4 exterior designer was also responsible for ...
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Design Development: BMW Z4
The Z3 launched in 1995 changed all that. The Z3 was designed to compete at the top end of the new sports car market sector defined by the Mazda MX5/Miata, and sold at more than 50 times the rate of its predecessors.
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Interview: Patrick le Quement, Senior Vice President, Corporate Design, Renault
Patrick le Quement is one of the most pre-eminent car designers in the world. His professional background started at Simca, followed with 17 years at Ford and a brief stint at Volkswagen before taking the top design job at Renault in 1987 answering directly to the chairman. In 1995 he ...
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Interview: Moray Callum, Executive Director for Ford Americas Design
How will your approach differ to Peter Horbury's?