All articles by Sam Livingstone – Page 7
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ArticleDriven: BMW X6
Why do people like some cars and dislike others? There are all sorts of reasons for sure, but there aren’t so many cars that one both likes and also dislikes. The BMW X6 takes this a stage further in being a design that is likable and unlikable for the same reason
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Design Review: Lamborghini Reventón
If there is one brand that owns the genre of "supercar" then it is Lamborghini. The 1966 Miura is commonly reckoned to have been the first supercar, the Countach that replaced it in 1975 remains in many respects the supercar zenith, and today's Murcielago is arguably the most malevolent and ...
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Design Development: Smart Roadster and Roadster Coupe
As development of the coupe concept car began, so the roadster show car was scanned (digitised) and then developed digitaly over the following year with both exterior and interior designs signed off in November 2000. Colour and Trim design continued in parallel, but for longer, with sign off in November ...
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Design Development: Smart Roadster and Roadster Coupe
At the 1998 Paris Motor Show the two seater 2.5 metre long Smart City Coupe was launched. This was the beginning of a new car brand and the most radical vehicle concept to hit the European market since the bubble cars of the 1950's. It was also the beginning of ...
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First Sight: Mini
The first 'New' Mini was launched just five years ago, replacing the original Mini that had changed only in detail since its 1959 debut. Designed by Frank Stephenson, now head of design at Fiat, the current design has been a sales success and most significantly has been very influential in ...
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Designer Interview: Michael Mauer, Director Style Porsche
CDN: What sort of external influences do you bring in, personally, that you feel are powerful to your design team?"For me it is the intensive contact between the designers in the early phase, to explore different ways of thinking. Each of them has their own interpretation of the Porsche 911. ...
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Designer Interview: Michael Mauer, Director Style Porsche
Michael Mauer has been Director Style Porsche for three years, replacing Harm Lagaay who retired on 1st July 2004. He came to the position from Saab where he was Executive Director Design, which in turn followed being Chief Designer at Smart where he was responsible in particular for the Roadster ...
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Design Review: Volvo S40
The potential for the hatchback biased platform to negatively influence the proportions and performance of the S40 saloon were avoided, according to the S40's Studio Chief Interior Designer Guy Burgoyne, by Volvo having full responsibility for defining the architecture to best suit the S40, and not just re-skin a Ford.
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Design Review: Volkswagen Golf 5
This powertrain configuration needed less car length and so gave more space to the cabin than the conventional front engine rear wheel drive cars of the time, and the hatchback and folding rear seat provided estate car levels of versatility in this compact package.
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Design Review: Ford SYNus
This is a perspective that Ford's design group have embraced with one of their latest concept cars; the SYNus.The conceptual background to the SYNus is that Americans (like many other nationalities) are moving back to the cities. They see this as a macro trend: 100 years ago farm workers began ...
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Design Review: Ford SYNus
This is a perspective that Ford's design group have embraced with one of their latest concept cars; the SYNus.The conceptual background to the SYNus is that Americans (like many other nationalities) are moving back to the cities. They see this as a macro trend: 100 years ago farm workers began ...
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Design Review: Volkswagen EcoRacer concept
Although within such a small frame it might be hard to deliver the archetypal Volkswagen aesthetic of today, it is interesting to compare this mid-engine concept with the Concept R from two years ago. Though less innovative that car was so clearly Volkswagen in its surface treatment.But the last reason ...
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Design Review: Volkswagen EcoRacer concept
There are two principal reasons CDN chooses to write a review of a new car design: because it is interesting, or because it is significant. This review of the EcoRacer from Volkswagen, is not because it is so significant, but because it is one of the most interesting designs of ...
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Design Review: BMW 5 Series
The E60 5 Series was followed in 2004 by the poorly received ‘flame-surfaced' 1 Series, which appears to have been the ‘last-straw': Bangle was moved away from his hands-on position in September 2004 to be replaced by Adrian van Hooydonk as BMW Design Director. And despite being the chief designer ...
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Design Review: BMW 5 Series
The F10 5 Series is the latest version of perhaps the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful international market car in the world. It has a design lineage that goes back to the first modern BMW design (the 1962 Neue Klasse 1500), it is the central product of this uniquely ...
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Southern California's Design Studios
President of Design, Kevin Hunter, gave us a tour of the purpose-built facility. Hunter has been at the studio since graduating from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit in 1982 and has seen the studio grow significantly in size and in the level of contribution it makes. The ...
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Southern California's Design Studios
The home of the American auto industry may be Detroit, but for the last 30 years California's West Coast has been its design base, playing host to more studios than anywhere else in the world.
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Design Review: Skoda Roomster
Mar 22, 2006 – Two and a half years ago Car Design News published a Design Development story on the Skoda Roomster concept that debuted at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show. We described that car then as an “exquisitely designed Utility MPV that was a breath of fresh air”.
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Show Review: Design LA
Uniquely in the competition, the Mini Biomoke is credited to Gary Shiu, a design intern at BMW Group Design Works USA. It's also perhaps the entry most relevant to its brand - Mini might very realistically consider a West Coast and Moke-inspired, simple new model in their line-up.