Over 2,000 global creative brands and 370,000 professional visitors from 188 countries attended Milan Design Week this year. More than ever before, the remarkable number of design-unrelated visitors set the pace for the 2024 edition, clearly showing the event’s social impact and cross-cultural dimension. Design Week hosted numerous automotive events, in accord with the increasing…
Liux gave DVN Interior a first presentation of their project last year at the DVN Interior Köln 2023 Workshop. With their keynote lecture there, they introduced the Geko, intended to become the most sustainable cars on the planet. Liux is a Spanish startup, and their talk presented the project, with focus on materials and sustainability.…
EuroNCAP has spoken up: screens are too distracting for safety, and the auto-safety specialists are demanding mandatory physical buttons and switches for certain control elements—only then will it be possible to receive a top rating from Euro NCAP. For some years now, ever-larger displays have been installed in cars. The best-known example of this is…
In the interior of the A8 plugin hybrid, the driver is greeted by the typical Audi style: cool, ‘technoid’ design, high-quality materials, meticulous craftmanship. Audi calls this ‘reduction as a design tool’. The operation of the many vehicle functions is divided between two touchscreens –10.1” upper and 8.6” lower haptic center screens with the MMI…
Rolls-Royce have unveiled the Cullinan Series II, with interior upgrades and design enhancements that reflect the brand’s commitment to meeting evolving client preferences. Even if sounds paradoxical with such a big car, they are acknowledging its clients’ desire to “escape into nature at will”, the interior of the new Cullinan features a palette inspired by…
VinFast have integrated Sony’s online entertainment service RideVu into the VF 8 electric car in the USA. This collaboration makes VinFast the world’s first auto manufacturer to offer RideVu. RideVu will be offered as a complimentary service to US owners of the VF 8 as part of the VF Connect Prime package. Upon registration for…
Mercedes-Benz announced news about in-car gaming at Auto China: Together with Tencent and Electronic Arts, MB plan to integrate the game ‘Need for Speed Mobile’ in selected vehicles in China by the end of this year. According to the announcement, this is made possible by the third MBUX generation (Mercedes-Benz User Experience). It is a…
Gaming chair (Wikipedia image) “We had sent a man to the moon before we realized that briefcases needed wheels” If taken literally, the statement above is hilarious. However, the two historic moments are not comparable. The small step for man and the giant leap for mankind were accomplished in 1969 and, even though wheels existed…
The successor to the Ferrari 812, which the sports car manufacturer from Maranello has now presented, is simply called the ’12Cilindri’ (’12 cylinders. Doesn’t sound electric!). The two-seater rests on an all-aluminum chassis and can hit 340 km/h. It squirts from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.9 seconds. The cockpit introduces a new HMI comprising…
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