All articles by Sam Livingstone – Page 2
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Honda Accord - European and Asian model
October 30, 2002 - This is the 7th generation European Honda Accord. It was announced in saloon form at the recent Paris Motor Show, the estate version more recently, and both variants will be available in Europe early next year.
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Nissan Beeline concept
October 16, 2002 - The dictionary definition of Beeline is: "the most direct route between two places".
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Holden SSX Design Concept
October 21, 2002 - At the Sydney International Motor Show this week, Holden, the Australian subsidiary of General Motors, is showing its new SSX Design Concept.
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First details on all-new Mazda 2
August 9, 2002 - Earlier this year Mazda launched the 6, the first of a new generation of Ford management influenced cars designed to deliver a more relevant car for European tastes.
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'Grafting Hybrids' - Designing the Brand
For most of the 20th century the car was celebrated as a modern and exciting means of providing personal freedom. Car brands automatically adopted much of this lustrous quality as part of their identity.In today's environment where so much of what the car represents has little lustre, car brands have ...
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Frankfurt Motor Show 2001 Trends - The Grown Up Small Car
How the 'super mini' small car sector has become mature, serious and sophisticated.
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Frankfurt Motor Show 2001 Trends - Luxury Reductionism
Why new luxury car interiors are becoming more reduced.
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Design Development Chevrolet Camaro concept
Ever since Ford reinvented the Mustang for today’s market, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors have conspicuously been without their own retro hero. In a bid to potentially tap into this market, both Dodge and Chevrolet unveiled such concepts at the 2006 Detroit Auto Show: the Dodge Challenger and the Chevrolet Camaro.
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2006 Detroit Auto Show Design Trends and Overview
Feb 27, 2006 – There is always something energising and exciting about the Detroit Auto Show, the first major international motor show of the year and the most significant auto show in the states. Detroit has some of the most theatrical new car launches; this year the Chrysler Aspen was ...
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Design Development: Renault Ellypse
The aesthetic aims to look ergonomic as well as be ergonomic, to use materials that enable the sense of touch to help navigate buttons and to imbue the interior with a more human and less machine feel - in contrast perhaps to that of the technical, metallic (and masculine) aesthetic ...
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Design Development: Renault Ellypse
The Renault Ellypse was one of the most interesting concept cars to be shown at the 2002 Paris Motor Show. It is the latest in a long line of impressive concept cars from Renault that make a strong contribution to the dialogue between designer, industry and customer on the development ...
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Design Essay: The Ingredients of Supercar Design
The Ferrari Enzo and Edonis are two recent designs that demonstrate how extravagant and dynamic supercar form can get, with a lot of strong surface changes, large air intake and outlet apertures and discontinuous forms. These give both designs a brutalism which in combination with their proportions makes their overall ...
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Design Essay: The Ingredients of Supercar Design
Supercar is a strange term amongst the lexicon of car design - a combination of two words that will never reach the common vocabulary in the way that 'sports car' and 'estate car' have. It is also an ambiguous car type; 'super' in the context of cars might mean many ...
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Design Review: Skoda Joyster concept
Manske showed Car Design News around the Joyster at Paris and explained how he had introduced these new Skoda design elements yet had also built upon the design vocabulary established by Ingenlath. Manske's previous position was at Volkswagen where he was responsible for the Iroc - which also debuted at ...
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Design Review: Skoda Joyster concept
One of the big challenges most car brands in the European market are trying to tackle is to appeal to the youngest profile of car buyer. Sell a new car to a twenty-something and you are likely to sell them a car in their thirties, forties and fifties as well. ...
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Design Review: Peugeot 1007
Throughout the history of the car it has been small cars that have most often demonstrated innovative design solutions, had attractive and characterful designs and gone on to become iconic products. Think Fiat Topolino, Volkswagen Beetle, Citroen 2CV, Fiat 500, Mini and even Renault 5, Fiat Panda, Peugeot 205, Ford ...
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Essay: Variable Degrees of Translucency
Car door panels and fenders are generally made of steel, sometimes of aluminum or plastic composites, and you can't see through them. Car windows, on the other hand, are made of a transparent sandwich of glass and plastic - and you can see through them. But in the future there ...
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Driven: Ford Mondeo wagon
Your impressions when looking at, getting in, and driving an unusual classic or sports car, are strong and distinctive. The value the design delivers is clear to see - the peaks and troughs of consuming the design are explicit.
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Design Development: Lotus Evora
Billed as a competitor to the Porsche 911, the Evora is an important car for Lotus. It's also significant as the last all-new Lotus design was the 1995 Elise designed under then head of design Julian Thompson. Before it, the last all-new car was the Esprit of 1975, designed by ...
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Moscow Motor Show 2006 Trends and Overview
The Moscow Motor show, which opened last week, is increasingly becoming one of the more important motor shows as the Russian car market, now worth one and a half million car sales per year, grows at the rate of around 50% every five years and the rate of sales increase ...