Category: Automobiles
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2023: Alex Israel’s “REMEMBR: The Ultimate Memory Machine” Installation
[ad_1] Inside the Collectors Lounge, the acclaimed artist’s AI-powered experience draws inspiration from the all-electric BMW i5 Courtesy of BMW AG Future-forward art can be found everywhere at Art Basel Miami Beach—including throughout the Collectors Lounge. It was there that we got up close and very personal with “REMEMBR,” an AI-powered installation developed by acclaimed…
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Interview: Derek Jenkins, VP and Head of Design at Lucid
[ad_1] The designer speaks to us about the Gravity SUV, design challenges and where we’re all headed Courtesy of Lucid No car at the LA Auto Show garnered more attention than the Lucid Gravity SUV, a recenly revealed follow-up to Lucid’s highly-acclaimed, multi-award-winning Air electric sedan. It’s not by accident. While Air was a six-figure…
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The Atlas of Car Design: The World’s Most Iconic Cars
[ad_1] 650 of the world’s most iconic cars—from 30 countries and 190 manufacturers—are presented in this comprehensive design-focused survey. Written by Jason Barlow with Guy Bird and an introduction by Brett Berk, it’s as much an authoritative reference book as it is design inspiration for novices or simply a nice addition to a coffee table.…
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Ford Motor Company + Multimatic’s Mustang GTD
[ad_1] Built to be the quickest roadgoing and highest horsepower (street-legal) Mustang ever “The mustang is the best-selling sports coupe in the world but we never thought of it as a racing icon,” says Jim Farley, president and chief executive of Ford Motor Company, as he unveils the Mustang GTD in his personal garage in…
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Inside Q, Aston Martin’s NYC Customization Salon
[ad_1] Made-to-measure car making arrives in Manhattan Michael Frank 7 July 2023 Aston Martin is an entirely revived ultra-luxury carmaker. That sentence may have sounded like spin had it been written in the days under Ford ownership in the 1990s and early 2000s—or under any of the other managers and investment groups not truly devoted…
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Rivian Sets Up at New York City’s High Line
[ad_1] From iconic vehicle design to a reinvented customer experience Michael Frank 5 July 2023 Rivian’s senior director of facilities design, Denise Cherry, has a lot of experience digesting the ethos of a company and turning it into the face the world will see. Prior to working at Rivian she cofounded a Bay Area firm…
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2024 Porsche Cayenne – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] If you’re a fan of the many very special sports cars Porsche has offered over the last two decades—the GT2 RS, Boxster Spyder, 911 Dakar and 918, to name a few—then you should give thanks to the Porsche Cayenne. Comprising about 30% of worldwide sales for Porsche, the Cayenne has allowed the automaker to…
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Kindred Motorworks’ Fully Electric Chevy 3100 – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Billed as “the electric pickup you never knew you needed,” Bay-Area startup Kindred Motorworks‘ latest creation, the fully electric Chevy 3100 pickup, is indeed a highly desirable piece of machinery. As they did with their initial classic to full EV conversion, the Kindred VW Bus, the Chevy 3100 pickup gets a tasteful custom treatment…
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2023 Acura Integra – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] After a two-decade hiatus, the Acura Integra is back as an all-new premium compact vehicle. The re-introduction of this car means Acura understands its history, and why its popularity waxed and waned. The Integra’s story is one of innovation, with its very existence introducing the concept of Japanese luxury when it helped launch the…
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Designing the Retrofuturistic 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] “I’m excited and nervous,” says SangYup Lee, Hyundai’s design chief and a star within the auto design world. “It’s been three years of hard work.” This is just before the silk slips off of his latest creation: the culmination of a thousand days of countless micro-decisions, renderings, adjustments, collaboration, effort and toil, all tucked…
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2022 Mercedes-Benz E450 Cabriolet – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] The 2022 Mercedes-Benz E450 Cabriolet could be described as a drop-top isolation chamber: it’s a luxurious grand tourer, bringing a suite of top-flight comforts to top-down driving. More importantly, this Benz fully delivers the premium experience one expects from the brand. It’s classically handsome and crisp in design. Its grille looks like a grille, its…
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Inside the 2020 Corvette with Brett Golliff, Global Design Manager – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] “Nobody needs a Corvette for its function; they need it for its emotion,” Brett Golliff, Global Color and Trim Design Manager for Chevrolet at General Motors, explains to us. “They need it because it speaks for them; they need it because it brings something else out in them.” The all new, eighth-generation 2020 Corvette…