Design
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It’s safe to say that the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] pretty much stunned everybody at the recent Detroit Auto Show with the reveal of its all-new GT supercar, which is scheduled for launch in 2016. It was amazing Ford was able to keep the car away from prying eyes prior to the reveal, so that we were left with one of the best surprises of the year. LEARN MORE: New Ford GT Supercar Revealed At 2015 Detroit Auto Show: Video However, now that the new GT is out in the open, the design team behind the car, led by Ford product development chief Raj Nair and design chief Moray Callum, can...
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Microsoft HoloLens To Transform Way Cars Are Designed?
Microsoft's new gadget holds some possibilities for future car design.
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GT-R-Powered Renault R.S. 01: From The Drawing Board To The Race Track
While Renault’s presence in Formula One continues to fade (it’s now just an engine supplier to a handful of teams), the French automaker through its Renaultsport performance arm remains active in other forms of motorsport. Recently, it announced the formation of a new one-make series...
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Buick Avenir Design Detailed: Video
Buick’s Avenir concept was one of the more impressive vehicles on show at the recent Detroit Auto Show but what’s just as impressive as the car’s stunning lines is the fact that General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] managed to keep it a secret for so long. Work on the Avenir actually...
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Local Motors Announces Lightweight Car Challenge: Video
The Local Motors LITECAR Challenge seeks radical new ways to reduce vehicle weight.
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EDAG Light Cocoon Concept Set To Illuminate 2015 Geneva Motor Show
Engineering firm EDAG will debut a concept featuring backlit fabric skin.
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General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] design chief Ed Welburn has revealed that future Chevrolet models will feature styling inspired by the Corvette. The link between the respective designs of the new cars and the brand’s halo vehicle will be subtle, with the new Chevys likely to borrow Corvette elements such as the taut hood and square-shaped tail-lights. MUST SEE: Car Crashes Into Bedroom Of 71-Year-Old Car Enthusiast: Video “In the past we never really took advantage of iconic vehicles like Camaro and Corvette the way we are today,” Welburn told Automotive News (subscription...
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White Remains Most Popular Color For New Cars In 2014
It appears new car shoppers aren’t very original when it comes to picking colors. According to vehicle paint giant PPG Industries, white was the most popular color for new cars for the fourth straight year. MUST SEE: 2015 Chevy Corvette Z06 Owner Does Massive Burnout Minutes After Delivery...
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Infiniti Synaptiq Concept Merges Human And Machine
The Synaptiq is Inifniti's entry for the 11th Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge.
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Audi Prologue concept revealed, presages new look for brand
Audi’s forward-looking Prologue concept has finally landed, and it’s bigger and bolder than ever. The stylish coupe doesn’t preview any one particular model currently being developed, but instead showcases a new design language for the entire Audi brand crafted by German designer...
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Mercedes-Benz Shows How Autonomous Cars Will Revolutionize Interiors
Mercedes-Benz creates a virtual simulation of the car interior of the future.
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Audi Prologue Concept Teased In New Sketches, Could Preview Flagship A9 Coupe
Audi will present a new concept car at this week’s 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show to showcase a new design language crafted by Marc Lichte, who took over the design reins at the German automaker late last year. The concept was initially thought to be in the form of a grand four-door coupe, but...
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Car fans are a notoriously opinionated lot, but very few get to actually work in the industry and have a hand in shaping the vehicles future customers will get to buy. Dodge is offering high school students a chance at a step toward just such a career. It's asking them to design the ultimate Dodge vehicle for 2025, and offering a $60,000 scholarship to the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit to the best one. DON'T MISS: Meet The Man That Modified The Cars For 'Furious 7': Video Paid out over four years, the scholarship is the top prize in the Detroit Autorama High School Design...
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Audi Previews New Design Concept Ahead Of L.A. Auto Show: Video
Audi is set to reveal a concept at the upcoming 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show that lays out the design strategy of its new design chief Marc Lichte, who only took over the design reins at the German automaker late last year. The concept is thought to be in the form of a grand four-door coupe, meaning...
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Mercedes-Benz Reveals G-Code Subcompact Crossover Concept
Mercedes-Benz has opened a new R&D center in Beijing, China and to mark the occasion unveiled the new G-Code concept car, whose design was influenced by Chinese market tastes. The vehicle is smaller than the GLA-Class and if built would compete against the MINI Cooper Countryman and...
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Detroit Electric Updates Design For SP:01 Sports Car
It was just over a year ago that revived electric car brand Detroit Electric revealed a Lotus-based sports car not unlike the original Tesla Roadster. The car was called the SP:01 and was said to be going on sale shortly after the debut with a starting price of $135,000. MUST SEE: Watch Dodge Build...
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Henrik Fisker To Make Announcement On Galpin Stand At L.A. Auto Show
Henrik Fisker is probably best known for his attempt at starting an automaker but before the days of Fisker Automotive the Danish businessman was working as a car designer and running coachbuilder Fisker Coachbuild. Well, it appears Fisker isn’t finished with the auto world just yet as...
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Lotus Appoints New Design Chief
Lotus has appointed Russell Carr its new head of design, a man who has been with the firm since 1990 and whose most notable design is probably that of the Evora sports car. Carr replaces Donato Coco, a former Ferrari designer that has been running the studio in Hethel since 2009. It’s not...
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Could a completely new production model based on the well-received IDx Freeflow and IDx NISMO concepts be the same model that's also a fully reengineered next-generation Nissan Z and successor to the current 370Z? They very well could be merged into one, conceded design chief and senior vice president Shiro Nakamura, in an interview with Motor Authority at the Paris Auto Show this past week. According to Nakamura, Nissan wants to continue the lineage of the Z, but it only has room for two sports cars in the lineup. And the flagship GT-R isn't budging. MUST SEE: Production-Ready Aeromobil...
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This Is What The 2015 Ford Mustang Might Have Looked Like
By now you’ve probably read our first drive report on the 2015 Ford Mustang and come up with your own impressions of the car. But would your impressions be any different had the new Mustang turned out like the one pictured here? It’s just one of the hundreds of design proposals for the...
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Look Out! Lexus To Unveil NX Designed By Will.i.am
To help promote its all-new NX, Lexus has teamed up with actor, musician and wannabe designer Will.i.am, real name Williams Adams, to develop an “extremely stylized” version of the compact crossover. The custom NX will be revealed on September 24 at Paris Fashion Week. A regular NX...
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2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Design Walkthrough: Video
The design of Mazda’s fourth-generation MX-5 Miata is almost universally liked but achieving the new look was no easy task, especially given the constraints of modern design standards and regulations. Taken at the car’s North American debut in Monterey, California last week, this video...
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2014 L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge Looks Ahead To 2029
The 2014 L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge looks to the future of connected cars.
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Michael Bay Wants To Turn 'Cosmic Motors' Book Into A Movie
Cosmic Motors depicts futuristic vehicles from another galaxy.
Stephen Edelstein