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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
Class-buster:Click pic to make bigThe 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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