The scientific experiment, conducted by Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) in collaboration with EEG specialists Myndplay, tested respondents to analyse how the brain reacts emotionally to car design and how design aesthetics actually make us ...
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A collection of student-designed Mahindra concept cars has been revealed as part of a collaborative research project into European market-focused transport solutions. Attempting to create vehicles appealing to European motorists, students ...
The interior of the all-new Mercedes-Benz V-Class has been revealed ahead of its anticipated 2014 debut. The planned successor to the Viano van, Mercedes-Benz says the new V-Class will be its largest passenger car and the ideal vehicle ...
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Nissan says that women are generally dissatisfied with the state of automotive industry, with their needs and wants largely ignored. “Lets face it, women have been largely ignored by the auto industry and our own research shows they ...
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When new technological advances come along in car design, the engineers rarely get it right the first time around. The current trend of LED lights on vehicles is no different. When they first started showing up on new automobiles, they ...
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Outspoken former BMW Group design chief Chris Bangle believes today’s car designers are stuck in a rut and says the industry’s inability to view itself objectively is holding back progress. Bangle told industry journal ...
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The all-new Volvo XC90 has been teased for the first time ahead of its long-awaited 2014 launch. Volvo presented a series of revealing sketches of the second-generation luxury SUV at the unveiling of its striking Concept Coupe showpiece ...
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Lotus F1 has selected Juniper Networks to build mission-critical networking infrastructure to aid its racing, testing and car design. The announcement comes days before Lotus competes at the Formula One World Championship British Grand ...
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Lotus F1 has announced a four-year partnership with IT services and solutions provider EMC that the team hopes will help lead it to the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The deal will see EMC aid Lotus with more agile and cost-efficient ...
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The 235kW, rear-wheel-drive Renault Twin’Run city car concept has been unveiled at the weekend’s Monaco Formula One Grand Prix in Monte Carlo. Paying homage to two iconic Renault sports cars, the R5 Turbo and Clio V6, the ...
During our recent trip to France for the launch of the Peugeot 208 GTi and Peugeot 2008 SUV, we had a few hours spare to visit the 'Cité de l'Automobile, Musée national de l'automobile, Collection Schlumpf' in Mulhouse. The ...
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The seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf has claimed the title of World Car of the Year (WCOTY) for 2013, marking the brand's second consecutive win. Voted the best new vehicle out of an initial entry list of forty-two cars, the Volkswagen ...
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The Toyota Corolla Furia concept has been unveiled at the Detroit auto show, giving us an insight into the aggressive styling of the next-generation Toyota Corolla sedan. Toyota Group vice president and general manger of the Toyota ...
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Jaguar today revealed its vision for a 21st century Jaguar sports car–the new C-X16 production concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show.Designed by the same team that produced the Jaguar XJ,XF and XK–headed by Jaguar Director of ...
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The University of Cambridge and Imperial College are pooling their resources to create a high-performance computing (HPC) service that will offer some of the UK’s fastest computer resources to industry through the cloud. The ...
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