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Schools Award and CDN Design Schools League Table

Schools as well as students are being recognized in this year's CDN-Interior Motives Student Design Awards, just launched, with a special award being introduced for the school whose students have the most success in the competition. CDN acknowledges that great teaching, as well as raw student talent, is needed to shape the work of the next generation of car designers. So along with the student finalists in 2012 will come finalist schools, as measured by the success of their students in getting to the shortlist stage of the competition, in becoming category finalists, or in winning an award or becoming overall winner.

Ford Tourneo Custom

The Tourneo Custom – which will take the iconic Transit name in commercial vehicle form – was first unveiled in concept form at the 2012 Geneva motor show and has been confirmed for production. The Transite/Tourneo follows Ford's Kinetic design approach that features on the company's passenger car range, including a sportier stance, bold rising shoulder line, flush glazing, distinctive trapezoidal grille and prominent wheel lips. Available in eight or nine seat configurations as a passenger vehicle, the Tourneo Custom comes in both short and long wheelbase, which measure in at 4,970mm and 5,430mm respectively while the vehicle stands at less than two meters high.

CPP comments as investor Vladimir Antonov loses his bank. Arrest warrant issued.

Vladimir Antonov - Arrest warrant issued over Snoras Bank collapse Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov has been busy buying up a raft of car companies (and Portsmouth FC) in recent years. But there are now big questions about how he financed that. Vladimir Antonov is the main shareholder in Lithuanian Snoras bank (he owns 68 per cent) and in Latvijas Krajbanka via a 60 per cent stake owned by Snoras.