Tag: VW

• Practical cars. Rationalism, or not.

  

  Consumerism and useless product design… This blog is titled autoSTYLING for a reason. I couldn’t get a car design URL…. but seriously it is important that the word styling was used. I am a design lecturer, but when I started this blog I just wanted to talk about cars as a passionate hobby and only…

  Lee

  August 4, 2020

  design analysis, industry comment

  car design, car styling, crossover, design history, design trends, Ford, Ford Bronco, Jeep, Land Rover, New Ford Bronco, Nissan, off-road, Range Rover, suv, T-Roc, Volkswagen, VW, VW SUV

• feeling the pinch

  Time for some design trend analysis. This started as a small observation of a certain car, but as usual the observation seems to apply to so many new cars this post has expanded hugely. Trends spread fast in the automotive design world, and when one large corporation owns many brands it can infiltrate across the range very rapidly. In…

  Lee

  March 9, 2015

  design analysis, industry comment

  1-series, audi, Audi A6 Avant, Audi A6 design, Audi design, Audi design evolution, automotive design, bmw, car design, Chevy Bolt, Chris Bangle, Cross Coupe GTE, design, design evolution, Detroit 2015, Geneva 2015, Geneva Show, shoulder line, surfacing, Volkswagen, VW

• kit cars

  kit cars are the future Interesting article about VWs modular MQB system of parts sharing, and how others like GM are failing to believe in it.

  Lee

  June 16, 2013

  industry comment

  car engineering, engineering, GM, kit, MQB, platforms, VW