All articles by Sam Livingstone – Page 6
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Design Review: Mitsubishi Se-ro
The Mitsubishi Se-ro design impresses on two different levels. Firstly the car shouts its unusual newness just as loudly as one would expect of a Tokyo show car, it is unequivocally different in its steeply fronted, polished aluminum monospace form. Secondly, the Se-ro moves forward the modern micro MPV vehicle ...
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Design Review: Honda HSC concept
To these European eyes the Honda HSC was the car at Tokyo with the most 'wow' factor, which is as much because of its status as the only Japanese supercar at the show as it is from its fresh and precisely defined volumes.
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Design Review: Nissan Redigo
Dimensionally close to the Nissan Micra (with which it presumably shares a platform) the four seat Redigo has a strong 'leisure' identity from its SUV-esque design language and slightly tall proportion, and from its B-pillarless design and novel opening roof. This roof is central to the Redigo's concept, the two ...
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Design Review: Jeep Renegade concept
The interior, by Scott Anderson, is arguably even more innovative, and has numerous environmentally driven elements: molded soy-based foam seats and doors, a co-molded aluminum/silicone steering wheel, a chassis made with no environmentally-harmful resins. The color and finish of the interior parts are also molded in one shot.
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Design Review: Jeep Renegade concept
Jeep. One of the world's most evocative car brands. The iconic Willys and the Wrangler that followed are, outside of their military roles, the epitome of the recreational vehicle. But this brand clearly has the potential to deliver beyond its current range of conservatively designed off-roaders, SUVs, and crossovers. And ...
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Design Review: Volkswagen Up! Lite concept
The rocker area of the Up! Lite is neither gray nor body color, but a carefully considered blend of the two. The door linings are in textured egg-shell blue vinyl with a near flock-like finish - a cheap and yet attractive solution. There's a small soft fabric area of the ...
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Design Review: Volkswagen Up! Lite concept
In 1999 Volkswagen launched the ‘3 liter' Lupo, the world's most fuel-efficient car capable of using only three liters of fuel per 100km. Now, ten years later, Volkswagen has revealed the Up! Lite concept, previewing a production design due in 2011 that claims a fuel consumption of only two liters ...
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ArticleDesign Review: Mazda Ibuki
The Ibuki is a compact two-seat open topped sports car concept that is 330mm (just over a foot) shorter than the current Mazda MX5.
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Interview: Simon Saunders, Design Director and CEO, Ariel Motor Company
CDN: "How have you changed over time as a designer?"
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Interview: Simon Saunders, Design Director and CEO, Ariel Motor Company
The world of car design is quite small. While there are millions of graphic designers globally, there are only about 25,000 car designers in total. Of these, very few make it to be Design Directors. And, so far, only one has made it all the way to running a car ...
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Design Review: Mercedes CST Vision B
Nearly three years ago Mercedes presented the Vision R Grand Sports Tourer concept in Detroit which heralded a new direction for Mercedes production cars. The GST was a 'crossover' vehicle with the four wheel drive and muscular design identity of an SUV, the three rows of seats and versatility of ...
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Design Review: Honda P-NUT concept
At the rear there are hints of the Honda Bulldog concept that was shown at the 2001 Tokyo show and with which the P-NUT shares a similarly upright narrow rear aspect flanked by deep section shoulders, a similar C-pillar treatment, and similar tall rear lamps and short overhang.
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Design Review: Honda P-NUT concept
The Honda Personal Neo-Urban Transport - 'P-NUT' for short - is a relatively light hearted concept car from Honda, why else would they contrive a name that sounds like 'peanut'? Reading the press pack that only runs to two pages and listening to the design team talk through the design ...
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Design Review: Land Rover LRX concept
The interior of the car has the same design identity of the exterior - a masculine, dynamic, crossover Land Rover. The core architecture, like the exterior, is strong, relatively simple, and derived from existing Land Rover design themes.
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Design Review: Land Rover LRX concept
The LRX concept previews the direction Land Rover is set to take with a forthcoming model based on a shortened Freelander platform. It is the smallest and most road-orientated Land Rover design ever and it demonstrates the progression of the firm's design language under new Design Director Gerry McGovern and ...
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Design Review: Toyota PM
We started our Highlights coverage with the PM, and we are finishing the Reviews with it. Somehow this impressive vehicle book ends the Tokyo Motor Show. Of all the concept cars, the PM projects into the future in the most conspicuous way and yet because of this it is also ...
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Design Review: Saab 9-X BioHybrid concept
Saab is starting to flex its muscles. In Detroit, the carmaker showed the 9-4X concept; an SUV crossover one step removed from production. The 9-X, presented on the eve of the Geneva show in March, is similarly close to being a production design and was developed in parallel to the ...
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Design Review: Ferrari F430
The seminal Dino was the first 'junior' Ferrari that established a lineage that runs up to the new F430 launched at Paris, via the 308, 328, 348, 355 and 360. When the Dino was launched in 1967, Ferrari were so concerned about the effect this V6-powered cheaper car would have ...