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Volkswagen takes control of Italdesign Giugiaro
It's buying a 90 per cent stake in the Italian design and styling house whose founder and chief designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro, was responsible for the very first Golf
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BMW says Concept X1 design creates
new segment
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study for a new car in the X-Class marries sport activity vehicle
to compact size and creates a new class. Or that's what BMW is saying,
anyway
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Computer games tie-up
for CAD visualisation group
Link between RTT and Codemasters will see them share info on automotive
design and graphics and physics engines
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Lord seeks applications for magneto-rheological fluids
Active engine mounts will reach the market within two years, and Europe is likely to be first with them
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Wagener succeeds Pfeiffer
as Mercedes' top designer
The 39-year-old moves into the top design job having been in charge
of Californian and Japanese studios
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Lotus puts the first
of its Project Eagle parts on show
The sportscar maker is using the 2008 Geneva show to highlight the
first module in its variable vehicle architecture for the Project
Eagle car
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Toyota picks Maplesoft to integrate
intelligence into design
Aim is to expand the scope of the model-based design system to speed
the introduction of new vehicles
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Bumper crops cost
Plastic Omnium has developed a 30 per cent cheaper
bumper for emerging markets
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Multi-purpose tailgate
offers profits lift
ThyssenKrupp
and Webasto are approaching OEMs with a multi-purpose tailgate module
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Radical cockpit design
eliminates the crosscar beam
ThyssenKrupp and Johnson Controls have come up with a mix of steel
and plastics that is 20 per cent lighter and doesn't affect safety
performance, they say
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Build-your-own Lamborghini:
at a price
Dealers take delivery of a virtual reality system that enables customers
to specify exactly what they want inside and outside their ultraluxury
sportscar
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Stadco invests in new
paint technology
The body-in-white supplier has put technology into its Coventry, UK,
plant that will enable it to supply black parts too
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Romax wins Ford business
for transmission NVH analysis
Getting the design of powertrain right to optimise the noise signature
is the aim
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Cooper-Standard completes sealing
systems deal
It's bought the European Metzeler weather-sealing systems group
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LMS finds a virtual driver for its
simulation
Tie-up with a company offering realistic human puts new elements into
testing simulations
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Mentor Graphics adds harness design
package
New system overcomes information flow problems by enhancing the "granularity"
of the software, it claims
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Raising the roof
As retractable hardtops become more common, buyers are demanding
more performance from the systems
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Supercar
company picks Catia for design
Ascari says that the Dassault Systemes package will enable it to
achieve a "step-change"
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New Mini gets front end module from HBPO
Assembly of the new model is made simpler with HBPO's
front end module, supplied in sequence to the Cowley plant from
its new facility in Banbury
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Autodesk takes car design to the
movies with Max 8 and Maya 9 software
CAD vendor widens scope of offerings after acquisition of Alias
last year
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Design optimisation and analysis
software updated
CAE software vendor Altair releases Hyperworks 8.0
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