Porsche design Future

At the Paris Motor Show Porsche surprised friend and foe with the Panamera Sports Turismo, a hybrid shooting brake based on the German sports sedan.

The design of this concept car is a harbinger of what we later new Porsches will look back.

Porsche CEO Matthias Muller spoke to the website Motor Trend on future Porsche models.

The special headlamps that the nose of the Sports Turismo grace, we go into the future to see more. Reportedly, all Porsches will soon be a snout with these lamps fitted. The upcoming small SUV, the Macan, is the first new Porsche that the new family face on the road will bring.

The tail lamps, which at the Sports Turismo relief, will adorn the back of future Porsches. Furthermore let Muller view on the green side of the German sports car brand.

Porsche will become more and more deposit on hybrid powertrains and not fully electric. The technique of electric motors, according to Muller has not developed enough to support a combustion engine without the sporty to drive.

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Renault Clio IV with another design

Renault Clio IV with another design smashed than we until recently the French brand were used.

The future Megane, Laguna, Scenic and Espace are emphatically styled differently.
That says Anthony Lo, Head of Design at Renault, car news from Autocar. In 2011 the French brands R-Space Concept at the Geneva Motor Show stand.

This study had a taste of the new Scenic and was very well received by the audience. According Lo Renault can not ignore, and so we will probably look back on such a design the following midi-MPV Renault.

Struggle
When the successor of the current Megane appears on the market, it must be able to compete with the cheaper versions of the German premium C segment. According Lo goes especially in the interior work be made at a higher quality.

At least, there should be similar. He speaks of a greater perception of quality required for a piece of the premium C-segment to pie. Lo stressed that the Megane is not growing bigger, because the Megane as affordable volume model too large a role has to undergo major changes.

Laguna
The successor of the Laguna remains a four-door sedan, but with an eccentric twist. According to Lo Renault something unexpected with the middle class out of it. Lo believes that the appearance of the current Laguna reason is that the model does not dominate the charts.

"It is the right car with the wrong clothes." According to Lo, people are impressed by the qualities of the car, but he reflects on his looks not the class of a car in that market segment.

Espace
Also, the design chief an open book on a new Espace. The current model is running again since 2003 and it has recently facelift. That does not mean that the French colossus needs replacement.

Or the next Espace again in the form of a full size MPV will appear, is still questionable. Lo says that Renault was not aware that buyers of a large MPV switch to a crossover. "Its time for a new idea," says the designer.

Thus he suggests that the following Renault Espace with a slap of a crossover in the hodgepodge segment comes into play.

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KIA Win Prestigious Design Award

Kia

Never again look trivial cars from South Korea. In quality and design of the South Korean brands in the world of good and recognized.

Kia, South Korean car manufacturers, often received design awards. Finally, KIA Motors Corporation gets Automotive Brand Contest 2011 from Rat for Formgebung (Germany Design Council).

Kia jury panel won in two categories; Brand Design (where the focus of the overall strategy and brand design rated) and Exterior (car design into the limelight).

In the category of Brand Design, KMC earned the title Best of the Best. While the Kia Sportage, Kia Rio, Kia Optima sedan and was asked as the winner of the category of Exterior.

"We are all very proud of Kias win well in this new competition. The contest is very important in the automotive industry, "said Peter Schreyer, Chief Design Officer KIA Motors Corporation.”With the changing focus of basic design, we provide a brand new face, a different identity."

Victories Kia cars design is inseparable from the presence of Peter Schreyer. The man with the glasses is the former chief designer Audi / VW and Kia since joining on July 31, 2006. Some of his work while in the Audi / VW like the New Beetle, Eos, Microbus, Golf MK IV, and the Race Touareg.

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