Posts Tagged ‘Automotive design’

Fuel economy not luxurious enough according to Orlando

Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Corporate clients have long grown accustomed to being shuttled around in the back seats of Panther-platform Fords. The throwback Town Car that most car services run doesn't exactly sip fuel, so T.J. Donaghy of Orlando, Florida decided a Toyota Camry Hybrid would be a good addition to his fleet at Ar......

SUB G1 three-wheeler makes commuting an exciting, risky affair

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the SUB G1 Back in 2005, three friends with automotive design and fabrication experience got together and created themselves three identical machines, each with three wheels and powered by a Suzuki TL V-Twin motorcycle engine. At that time, they said that they wou......

Geneva 2008: Audi Q7 coastline concept - It’s got shore power!

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Click to cruise through a hi-res gallery of the Q7 coastline conceptIn addition to introducing the production Q7 V12 TDI ultra-ute, Audi will use this week's Geneva Motor Show to christen a concept based on its new flagship. "Flagship" is actually an appropriate term, as the Q7 coastline takes a di......

Nanotech research stumbles on homemade hydrogen

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Efficiency is a large stumbling block if you're looking for a way to replace gasoline. It's pretty hard to better such an exceptional fuel, and several alternatives show promise but are nagged by inefficiencies or cost, and usually both. Nanotech to the rescue; it may soon be possible to produce you......

Nissan cutting back North American design team

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
It was late 2005 when Nissan announced it was packing up operations in Southern California and moving to Tennessee. If you didn't choose to move east of the Mississippi, and many didn't, you were looking elsewhere for a new job. Some of the lucky few who dodged the axe worked for Nissan Design Ameri......

Volkswagen confident about success of next New Beetle

Saturday, December 1st, 2007
The Volkswagen New Beetle was first thrust upon the world in 1998. Its release was an immediate success and thus spawned an insurgence of retro inspiration in automotive design. However, after 10 years on the market the novelty of the bug's cutesy styling and flower holder have begun to wear off. Wh......

PPI puts Porsche on notice with Audi R8 Razor

Friday, November 30th, 2007
Click to view in our high-resolution image gallery If the Audi R8 put "old luxury" on notice with its Super Bowl commercial, then PPI is putting Porsche tuners on notice with its modified R8 Razor. Initially shown at the Essen Motor Show last year, the PPI R8 Razor aims to dramatically increase the ......

Geneva ‘08 Preview: IED Maserarti Chicane concept

Monday, November 19th, 2007
Any regular reader of Autoblog should know that the major automakers aren't the only ones unveiling striking new concept cars. In fact, independent designers tend to create even more exciting concepts than the big boys. All the more so for design students who give us a preview of what the future hol......

European coachbuilders will sink or swim in changing market

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
We've posted a number of articles in recent months about coachbuilders like Pininfarina and Bertone finding themselves in financially troubled waters. The difficulties these and other independent manufacturers around Europe are suffering now appear to be part of a larger trend that's forcing these c......

iDrive via IP? - BMW uses Internet Protocol underhood

Friday, September 21st, 2007
There's a variety of flavors of in-car networking standards that corral the large number of embedded computers and nodes present in the modern automobile. BMW Research and Technology, an R&D division of BMW, has found Internet Protocol up to the tasks that the other standards currently perform.......