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Jaguar-inspired sculpture unveiled at Clerkenwell Design Week

Jeff Darling — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:09:20 +0000

Students at the Royal College of Art (RCA) working in conjunction with Jaguar’s Advanced Design studio have today unveiled a large hunk of metal that was inspired by Jaguar’s current design direction. The sculpture was chosen from nine different proposals submitted by RCA students to Jaguar Advanced Design. The winning artists were Ewan Gallimore and [...]

Galag TG1

Jeff Darling — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:45:29 +0000

As the over-hyped extravaganza of wealth, bad taste, bad driving and unbridled machismo that is the Gumball 3000 got underway yesterday in Denmark, there was one car on”grid” which looked like nothing else. It’s the number 73 car, run by Team Galag from Saudi Arabia (who also brought along a replica of Batman’s Tumbler). It’s [...]

Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept

Jeff Darling — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:34:38 +0000

Aston Martin today revealed a stunning new concept car which the company says hints at a potential future design direction for their vehicles. Unveiled at the Nurburgring, the Aston Martin CC100 Speedster is a radical, Spartan roadster which is clearly designed to spend more time on the track than on public roads. As well as [...]

Indy Seven Roadster Concept

Jeff Darling — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:36:14 +0000

The Indy Seven Roadster concept is a design dreamt up by the incredibly fertile mind of Swedish designer Bo Zolland. Zolland’s 3D modeling skills really are breath taking. Managing to look photo-realistic yet strangely magical at the same time. His specialty of creating retro-inspired concept cars and jaw dropping boat/sports car fusions has certainly worked [...]

Video: Deer meets bus

Jeff Darling — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:52:26 +0000

Here’s one you don’t see all that often. A deer taking a faceful of bus and living to see another day. The incident occurred in Pennsylvania, when a deer which was sprinting across the road got whacked full bore by a 10 ton bus. The animal comes flying though the windscreen, fortunately missing the driver, [...]

Teutonic Wars: Luxury Arms Race

Aurel Niculescu — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:29:47 +0000

This year, as you’ve probably noticed from all the teasers, rumors, spy shots and leaks, the most important release for Mercedes-Benz was the new S-Class. It was so important that Mercedes chose to reveal it with a big bang at the Airbus A380 delivery center. But this article isn’t really about the new model, instead [...]

Top 10 cars from the ’80s

Jeff Darling — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:03:04 +0000

As a follow-up to the article a coupe of days ago, when it was revealed that cars from the 1980s were disappearing from the roads faster than any other generation. I’ve decided to have a look at some of the cars which defined the decade, and indeed are still legends to this day. The cars [...]

2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class

Jeff Darling — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:42:17 +0000

Mercedes today unveiled the latest version of their flagship luxury sedan, the S-Class. This is a big one for Mercedes. Get it wrong and BMW and Audi will more than happily mop up any disaffected buyers. Get it right and they’ll retain their crown as the finest purveyor of German luxury automobiles. For Mercedes-Benz’s designers [...]

HSV unveil their GEN-F lineup

Jeff Darling — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:44:55 +0000

HSV, the perfomance arm of the Australian automaker GM Holden, have just unveiled their all-new GEN-F lineup. It incorporates six different vehicles, based over three different body styles. There’s a sedan; available in either Clubsport spec, Senator Signature spec, or the range-topping GTS. A wagon called the GEN-F Clubsport R8 Tourer. And also a pickup, or [...]

BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupe previewed

Jeff Darling — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:44:20 +0000

For their latest concept car, BMW have teamed up with perhaps Italy’s most celebrated design studio, Pininfarina. The BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupe is a one-off creation which will make its world debut at the 2013 Concours d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. The car is a follow-up to [...]