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EyesOn Design to honor Volkswagen design chief Walter de'Silva

The 24th-annual EyesOn Design car show will honor Volkswagen Group design chief Walter de'Silva with a Lifetime Design Achievement Award, the organizers said. De'Silva is responsible for designing the passenger cars for Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Volkswagen. He designed the 2008 Volkswagen Golf, the '10 Touareg and many others.

SAIC wins LA Auto Show Design Challenge

China's SAIC, the parent company of Roewe and MG brands (yes, Morris Garages and what used to be Rover), took the top spot in the LA Auto Show Design challenge with its Mobiliant Concept, beating other contestants like BMW DesignworksUSA, Subaru, Mazda, Changfeng, Quoros, and others. The theme for this year's challenge at the LA Auto Show was "Biomimicry & Mobility 2025: Nature's Answer to Human Challenges." Entrants were directed to propose design concepts that integrated the concept of biomimicry into transportation concepts. Quite a challenge and quite an open theme, especially when you consider that last year's theme was pretty straightforward: "Highway Patrol Vehicles in the Year 2025." In 2012 the Subaru SHARC concept took the top prize.

Los Angeles auto show 2009 photo gallery

By Ben Pulman Motor Shows 02 December 2009 20:40 Browse through the photos at the 2009 Los Angeles auto show on this page. We've got the latest pictures of all the important debuts at LA's motor show – and we'll be adding more photos in the next few hours.CAR's reporting team in Los Angeles is filing pictures back as soon as the covers are whisked off the important new cars – from the VW Up! Lite to the Honda P-Nut, Porsche's new Boxster Spyder to the Cadillac CTS Coupé.Don't forget to read the exclusive CAR Live Blog filed live from the 2009 Los Angeles auto show.