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AW Design Forum: Ralph Gilles talks technology - with style

Chrysler Group is known for its rough and tough trucks and menacing muscle cars, but its design boss said technology is going to be the game-changer for car designers going forward. Ralph Gilles, who is also CEO of the Dodge brand, said cars must be able to adapt to evolving technologies while remaining striking and pleasing to the eye. Smartphones, touch screens and colorful interfaces are all becoming common inside cars.

Let Q modify your Aston Martin

We imagine there were really two options for naming Aston Martin's new personalization program: Q, or something boring like Amalgamated Personalisation & Colour Programme, complete with British spellings that will vex most spell-checking software and render it unsearchable in Google. Fortunately, Aston Martin has wisely decided to adopt the same name as the Quartermaster in Ian Fleming's "James Bond" novels -- a pure coincidence, we're told. Lucky owners of these customized machines will be able to tell their friends that it was Q who added a few special touches to their cars.

2011 Mercedes CLS: Paris Motor Show 2010

The 2011 Mercedes CLS bows in at Paris It’s compulsory for car hacks to start every piece about the Mercedes CLS with the phrase ‘The car that started the 4-door coupe craze’. So, not wanting to disappoint, here we have the 2011 Mercedes CLS at the Paris Motor Shoiw, the replacement for the Mercedes CLS that started the 4 door coupe craze. There.