Design
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Citroën's CEO says the company has no interest in building a modern take on the beloved and agrarian 2CV that enjoyed a 43-year run.
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Production Byton M-Byte interior keeps concept's promises with 48-inch screenInterior teaser shots of the production M-Byte electric SUV show the huge 48-inch dashboard screen from the concept vehicle, and more screens to boot.
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Former Lincoln design chief joins NissanFormer Lincoln design chief David Woodhouse will lead Nissan and Infiniti's North American design studio.
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Lincoln design chief parts ways with brandThe man responsible for making Lincoln's look the way they look today has left the building.
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Karma snags former Rolls-Royce designer Andreas ThurnerThe man who penned the Rolls-Royce Ghost has been charged with designing Karma's next-generation EVs.
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Ian Callum steps down from Jaguar design role after 20 yearsA fan of Jaguar almost his entire life, Ian Callum has now stepped down from the top design role at the British brand.
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Designers from the fabled Italian firm Pininfarina discuss how they transformed the four-door Karma Revero GT into the Karma GT Designed by Pininfarina.
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Jay Leno examines how the 2005 Ford GT was designedFirst-generation Ford GT chief designer Camilo Pardo visits Jay Leno's Garage to discuss the design of the 2005-2006 supercar that recalled the original Ford GT40.
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FCA selects winners for 2019 Drive For Design contestHigh school students from around the U.S. submitted designs for future cars.
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Free from Opel tie-up, Buick readies new design languageDesigners gave insiders a glimpse into what's coming next for Buick now that it's no longer affiliated with Opel.
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Porsche could look to the past or future for next hypercar designPorsche has a successor to the 918 Spyder in the works and it could pull from the past for its looks.
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Hyundai design boss says best looks from the brand are yet to comeHyundai design chief SangYup Lee says the new Sonata's looks are just the tip of the iceberg, the next Tucson crossover will be even wilder.
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Design studio Icona will use the 2019 Shanghai auto show to present a self-driving logistics vehicle developed for Chinese online retail giant JD.
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Rolls-Royce's new design chief is the man who penned the VeyronRolls-Royce has been without a head designer since Giles Taylor stepped down last September after a 6-year stint to join China's FAW Group, where he's been tasked with helping shape future products from a revived Hongqi. The situation at Rolls-Royce finally changed on Monday with the appointment of...
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Subaru intros new design language with Viziv Adrenaline ConceptSubaru is hopeful the world is still craving crossover SUVs, despite the body style's proliferation in recent years. That's because the Japanese firm unveiled a new crossover concept on Tuesday at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. Called the Viziv Adrenaline Concept, the show car introduces...
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FCA issues latest "Drive for Design" challenge to create the ultimate status vehicleFor the seventh consecutive year, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is running its Drive for Design contest for high school students who aspire to design cars. This year, youngsters will be tasked with designing the "ultimate status vehicle." Head of Performance, Passenger Car and Utility Vehicle Design...
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Pencils down: Ford trials 3D virtual reality design program to reduce development timeFord designers could one day trade in their pens and paper for a totally three-dimensional and virtual reality experience. The automaker shared Tuesday that it is testing a 3D and VR design experience from a company called Gravity Sketch. The collaboration is the first of its kind, according to...
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Hyundai's chief designer: We're chasing legends now, not just salesLuc Donckerwolke is one of us. The 53-year-old designer—born in South America, trained in Brussels, and chief designer for a South Korean global automaker—speaks with a soft French timbre that rises and falls mid-sentence. It makes every clause of every sentence sound like a playful...
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Karma, the electric car startup born out of the remains of the original Fisker, has teamed up with Italian design house and fellow EV startup Pininfarina to collaborate on future electric cars. The two firms announced Thursday that they will work together and that the first results of their collaboration could come as early as the second quarter of 2019. Without mentioning specifics, Pininfarina CEO Silvio Pietro Angori said in a statement that his firm has been tasked with helping Karma by lending its expertise in design. Karma's sole product is the Revero extended-range electric sedan...
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Apple hires senior designer from TeslaApple has once again sparked rumors it may be developing more than just self-driving car software. The California-based technology giant has hired Andrew Kim, a former senior designer at Tesla. The Verge reported on Kim's hiring on Monday and said Kim's first day at Apple was last week. Kim's...
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Former McLaren design boss joins Lilium flying taxi startupFrank Stephenson shocked many when he stepped down from the lead design role at McLaren in early 2017. It turned out he wanted to apply his design skills in an entirely new segment: flying taxis. The renowned designer, responsible for cars like the McLaren P1 and 650S (and in earlier roles the...
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Robert Downey Jr. met Audi design chief to discuss e-tron GTAudi will showcase another vehicle in its long-running ties with Marvel films when "Avengers 4: Endgame" debuts next spring. None other than the e-tron GT electric sedan will star alongside the Avengers and Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark, aka, Iron Man. Ahead of the film's premiere, Downey Jr. met...
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Pininfarina details “Pura” design language for future cars, PF0 hypercar almost fully revealedThe new Pininfarina car brand spun off earlier this year from the Italian design house and coachbuilder of the same name is working on a handful of models, all of them high-performance electric cars to be targeted at ultra-wealthy individuals. Naturally, Pininfarina is turning to its parent company...
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Watch as the Italdesign team builds the $1.05M Nissan GT-R50 by handThe Nissan GT-R50 is a stunning vehicle, and fans can appreciate it more with the knowledge that the car was almost entirely built by hand. A new video from Nissan traces the production process inside Italdesign, the Italian firm responsible for building the modified GT-R. Both the GT-R and...
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