Chevrolet Camaro Gets Popular Mechanics Excellence Award
14 Dec 2009, 07:44 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / One of the stars of the Transformers: Revenge of the fallen got the Popular Mechanics Excellence Award. Despite what you might be thinking, we are not talking about Megan Fox, but about the new Chev...
Nissan V2G, Youthmobile 2030 Design Challenge Winner
4 Dec 2009, 13:25 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The 2009 LA Auto Show Design Challenge announced a winner yesterday, with Nissan’s V2G project chosen for its holistic approach in answering the future's design questions and the new gene...
Aston Martin Test Center at Nurburgring Wins Design Award
16 Nov 2009, 14:20 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Aston Martin’s testing facility at Nurburgring, Germany, has been awarded with the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) Architekturpreis Rheinland-Pfalz 2009 design award for the unique developme...
Bentley Art Auction for Charity
6 Nov 2009, 07:54 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Bentley is trying to help The Christie, a cancer hospital from Manchester, by holding an art auction at Bonhams. The project was sustained by 22 designers from Bentley’s design team that turne...
Walter de Silva Praises Audi A5 Coupe Design
4 Nov 2009, 10:05 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Audi A5 Coupe is a really state-of-the-art model, at least when talking about its design. This is the opinion of several car analysts out there and the German Design Council strongly agrees with...
Audi Customizing Club Chooses Winners
23 Oct 2009, 08:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Audi's design contest, set up by the German carmaker to help inspire the future Audi show car, has concluded today with the announcement of the three concept winners. Drawn by Alexander Christ,...
Audi Jacksonville Dealership Opens Today
7 Oct 2009, 13:55 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The American division of Audi announced that its Audi Jacksonville Store (Florida) opens today with a gala event that will be attended by the top management members from Audi of America. The Jack...
More Metallic Colors for Volvo Trucks
4 Sep 2009, 12:30 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The common perception of a truck is far away of being related to design issues, but that’s not what Volvo thinks. The Swedish carmaker realized the importance of standing out from the crowd, t...
New Concept Yacht Based on Automotive Design
31 Aug 2009, 08:05 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The team at Drive, a company that is renowned in Marine and Automotive design, have been working on a concept that reunites the customary things for the rich and the famous: luxury cars and superyac...
Ronaldinho Pictured in Car Dirt
13 Aug 2009, 07:32 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / We’ve seen a lot of dusty cars in traffic, but some of them are wearing the funny ‘clean me’ text on them. This is certainly not the case of a 50-year-old driver from Texas, Americ...
Nissan's “Think Outside the Parking Box” Contest
27 Jul 2009, 06:09 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / Nissan is organizing an online design contest with the theme “urban parking”. The purpose of the contest is to design a new and creative idea of a urban parking. The designs may chall...
BMW M Concept: Surf's Up, R8!
17 Jun 2009, 07:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ...or not quite. What you can see in the adjacent photos is not actually an official BMW project, but the handy work of designer Idries Noah. Noah, who in his professional past worked for GM Austral...
Arai Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction Again, Study Shows
27 May 2009, 08:43 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / It is the 11th consecutive year that Arai has the highest score in customer satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Motorcycle Helmet Satisfaction Study. On a scale from 0 t...
Audi "Intelligent Emotion" Renderings
22 Apr 2009, 14:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It becomes more and more obvious that looking for future design geniuses among people outside of the automotive industry might be the way to go, especially for manufacturers who plan on bringing new...
Peter Horbury Leaves Ford and Returns to Volvo
2 Apr 2009, 15:46 UTC · By: Tudor Raiciu / Big changes taking place in Ford land these days as Peter Horbury is leaving his position as Executive Director of Design to become Vice President of Design at Volvo, which after all is part of the...
Mazda Shuffles Upper Management Ranks, Changes Global Design Team
1 Apr 2009, 08:28 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Just like Nancy Pelosi, White House spokeswoman, said yesterday, companies involved in the automotive sector have to make sacrifices in order to cope with the recession and get out without too many ...
BMW Snug Concept, a Glimpse of Things to Come
25 Mar 2009, 08:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The void created by Chris Bangle's departure from BMW (even if it has been filled by Adrian van Hooydonk) created a sudden rush of adrenaline in wannabe designers, as their skills no longer hav...
2009 Ford Fiesta Wins red dot Award
19 Mar 2009, 11:49 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The new Ford Fiesta has just received the prestigious "red dot" award for international product design, a verdict of 28 leading designers and design experts from 19 countries, as the Ameri...
BMW Will Use CATIA to Develop Its Engines
13 Mar 2009, 08:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / All BMW's engine development efforts will rely on a single software platform, provided by Dassault Systemes, as the German manufacturer consolidated the use of the program in its research. BMW ...
Chevrolet Launches Online Interactive Design Center
22 Jan 2009, 13:32 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The world of car designing is undoubtedly fascinating but, in most cases, it is extremely difficult to go behind the curtain and find out what happens in such a designing center. Well, Chevrolet Eur...