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CDN Interior Motives Student Design Awards 2012 deadline this Friday

The CDN Interior Motives Student Design Awards 2012 competition deadline is fast approaching, with entrants having until 11 May to submit their entries. The theme of this year's competition – which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year – is ‘What Comes Next? Make your mark on the car of tomorrow' and is comprised of the following four briefs, devised in collaboration with Volkswagen and Peugeot: The Next Icon Considers the legacy of cars that have achieved iconic status in the car design automotive industry as a result of technological advances and improvements in construction and ergonomics among other things.

Subaru XV

Subaru has revealed the new XV at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show, taking the company into the compact crossover segment for the first time. Like its concept precursor, the XV features a hexagonal grille and 'hawk eye' headlamps, designed to emphasize the vehicle's brand identity. Alloy wheels and cut-away cladding also aim to give the car a distinctive feel.

Rolls Royce Phantom Facelift: Geneva 2012

2012 Rolls Royce Phantom Series II - the whole range gets a facelift The Rolls Royce Phantom Series II Facelift has been revealed at the Geneva Motor Show across the entire Phantom range. In showrooms June 2012. It would be quite hard to work out what Goodwood has done to the Rolls Royce Phantom to give it a facelift for 2012, despite which it is the most comprehensive raft of changes to RR’s flagship since the Phantom launched almost a decade ago, to create the Rolls Royce Phantom Series II.