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Tokyo 2019: Toyota Auto Body surprises with minivan concepts
It wasn’t just Toyota’s cars (and robots) making a big statement in Tokyo. Their commercial-vehicle branch was at it too. Car Design News took a look at the new GranAce and the PMCV concept MPV
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Tokyo 2019: Nissan’s bag-toting concepts
Nissan’s stand at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show contained a known quantity, but several surprises too. Satoru Tai told us about the IMk, Ariya concept, and the digital tree…
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Tokyo 2019: Suzuki’s twin concept joy
Suzuki offers up a shapeshifting mini-sportscar and a cottage-on-wheels autonomous MPV at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show
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Tokyo 2019: Mitsubishi’s “robust but cute” buggy concept
Mitsubishi often takes CDN slightly by surprise at motorshows, and its record remains unbroken. The MI-Tech buggy concept, presented in a pearlised blue, screamed fun. The Mitsubishi design language of robust is clearly there - but Tsunehiro Kunimoto’s team have created another iteration.
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Tokyo 2019: Toyota debuts 2nd-generation Mirai
The new Mirai Concept hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, set to go on sale as 2021 model, looks production-ready in its new sedan-like form
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Tokyo 2019: Yamaha’s vision of mobility
’Dezi’ Akihiro, Yamaha head of design, talks CDN around the concepts on the stand at the Tokyo motorshow
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CDN LA Forum 2019 – unpicking design
The Los Angeles Forum 2019, organised by CDN with Automobility LA, takes place on Day one (press day) of the auto show. Co-located with the show, the Forum pulls together the best designers operating in the mobility space right now and ends the event with our Designer Night (drinks, food and networking for automotive designers).
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Clever compacts coming to Tokyo from Nissan, Suzuki
Nissan and Suzuki have repeased initial images of their Tokyo motor show debutants in the compact car space. The Nissan IMk is a subcompact electric car with a stress-relieving interior, while Suzuki will display five different concept cars: an autonomous cottage, a retro kei two-seater, a pair of crossover kei vans and a baby-friendly kei minivan
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Frankfurt 2019: Byton inches closer to massive screen production
Genuine unique selling points among the proliferation of new electric car brands are becoming harder to discern but Byton’s M-Byte still has one – and it’s a big one: its dashboard-dominating 48-inch screen. Gaining its world debut at the Frankfurt motor show, the design team behind the Chinese marque’s mid-size SUV EV gave Car Design News a run-through of its production-ready features
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Car Design News Student Awards China 2020 competition launches
The Car Design News Student Awards China competition is officially underway. This unique competition brings together the cream of Chinese student design talent and sets them to work designing vehicles according to an imaginative set of briefs set by eight automotive companies. The Awards ceremony will be held just before the Beijing motor show in 2020. This year, Geely, Ford, Bordrin, New Baojun, VW, Nissan, Hyundai and Chang An are asking students to imagine a dizzying variety of future worlds (and even one off-world scenario).
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Frankfurt 2019: The Round-up
The 2019 Frankfurt motor show signalled European mainstream car manufacturers going electric. We take a look at the show and some of its highlights
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Frankfurt 2019: Cupra Tavascan design team reveal show car secrets
Brand-new brand Cupra showed its second concept car of 2019 in the shape of an all-electric for-door crossover coupé called Tavascan at the Frankfurt motor show, as it aims to forge a new identity more clearly separate from the Spanish Seat marque that bore it.
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Frankfurt 2019: Taycan’s leap forward by Porsche interior designer
CDN talks to Ivo van Hulten, Porsche’s director interior design, about the new Taycan production EV
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Frankfurt 2019: Land Rover officially debuts new Defender
After more leaks than, well, the old car actually… we can finally show you Land Rover’s reinvented icon properly, with the 2020 Defender making its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Car Design News takes a look at this design icon.
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Ken Okuyama on the Aiways U7 Ion
Working with the Aiways internal teams from his studio in Japan, Ken Okuyama has been working with the Chinese EV brand Aiways on the design of the company’s Shanghai show stand, a line of lifestyle products, and their newest concept car, the U7 Ion. He says that in the future, his design influence will likely extend to branding, stores, and even the website. After seeing the investment the company has made in their fully-automated production facility, he was convinced that Aiways had a big future, and he wanted to be part of it. In late 2018, he was named Chief Advisor of Design & Art, and his influence at the startup is already being felt. The immiment arrival of two Aiways U5 prototypes at the Frankfurt motor show on September 9, which left Xi’an in China on 17 July, seems a good time to take another look at this ambitious Chinese brand.
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ArtCenter Degree Show, Summer 2019
The latest student degree show from ArtCenter design school in California presents some intriguing mobility design concepts
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College Exhibition: National Institute of Design, India, 2019
Highlights from the summer degree show of India’s premier automotive design course at the National Institute of Design
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Cartier concours
Cartier Style et Luxe lawn at the Goodwood Festival of Speed had a stunning array of classic cars
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Visions of tomorrow at Goodwood FOS’s Future Lab
The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2019 Future Lab crammed together the latest auto and digital innovations
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Simon Loasby walks CDN around the Hyundai range at Shanghai 2019
CDN caught up with Hyundai’s VP of Styling at the Shanghai motorshow 2019 for a design walkaround of the cars on the stand. Simon (formerly at Bentley and VW) has been working in Shanghai since 2017 and led Hyundai China design until taking a global role this past spring