Volvo’s Head of Design Steve Mattin Resigns
Volvo's award-winning design director, Steve Mattin, has left the company. U.K.-born Mattin has been Volvo's design director since May of...
Month: March 2009
Tesla unveils world’s first mass-produced, highway-capable EV
Tesla Motors is now taking orders for the Model S, an all electric family sedan that carries seven people and...
Lexus RX Evaluation
By Cor Steenstra, Photos by Chris Jones. We have been looking forward to try out the new 2010 Lexus RX,...
F-CELL Roadster – Mercedes-Benz trainees build a car of the future
In a hitherto unique project bridging various fields of profession, the trainees of Daimler AG at the Sindelfingen Mercedes-Benz plant...
Icon Aircraft A5 Sports Plane
Early 2008 I did some consultancy work through Metalcrafters for Icon Aircraft working on their A5 sports plane. It was...
Dutchman Bobby D. enters Indy Racing series in spectacualr way
Robert Doornbos a.k.a. Bobby D., former F1 and Champ car series driver will this season enter as a rookie in...
New Toyota Yaris 5-door Hatchback Design Evaluation
By Cor Steenstra. Photography Chris Jones Toyota added a five-door Liftback, to its popular, fuel-efficient Yaris subcompact model line for...
40 Years of the Porsche 917
Forty years ago on March 13, 1969 at the Geneva International Motor Show, today's Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche unveiled...
Mitsubishi Closes its European and US design and R&D facilities
We are saddened to report that Mitsubishi Motors has anounced that it will close both its North American and its...
