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Friday, 20 November 2015 00:00

The German car industry

VW Golf GTi: Volkswagen’s Golf, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, was intended as the new Beetle, but evolved to become king of the hatchbacks|The BMW E30: In the 1980s, BMW provided stylish sedans and potent, understated sports cars|Eddie Murphy sitting atop his Mercedez Benz SL roadster in Beverly Hills Cop|Audi, the thinking-person’s marque, came up trumps with its four-wheel-drive Quattro|The recent electric BMW i3 suggests that innovative thinking may be back in vogue|The Porsche 911, the ultimate 1980s sports car, has slumped into toad-like mediocrity since||

Germany once ruled the auto industry, but all that’s left today are nods to history, macho fascias, broad haunches, sagging sides – and cheating on emissions tests, says John Jervis

Published in Crimes Against Design
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 00:00

The Volkswagen camper van

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The VW has driven down some unlikely avenues of post-war history, serving both the German railways and the hippie movement before well-heeled surfers grabbed the wheel

Published in Icon of the Month
Monday, 09 February 2015 12:25

Dominic Wilcox

Wilcox at work on his stained glass car|The finished prototype Mini||||

The British designer will speak at Design Indaba in Cape Town this month about his new work, including his recent driverless stained-glass car

Published in News