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Concept Car of the Week: Oldsmobile Golden Rocket (1956)

From 1949 to 1961, General Motors ran its own motor show. Called Motorama, the annual event was a showcase for concept cars which revealed prospective design and technology directions for all of GM's brands and for cars in general. Each year, one-off creations were designed and built for GM's multiple divisions, from Chevrolet all the way up to Cadillac.

CAR reader reporters at the London motor show

CAR sent four reader reporters to the London motor show 2008. Check out their musings and rate their efforts at CAR Online By Tim Pollard Motor Shows 25 July 2008 12:45 A team of CAR reader reporters joined us at the international press day of the London motor show earlier this week – and you can now rate their reports live on CAR Online. You might be familiar with their user names: asp, carcare, jacomoseven and Sandy T won an exclusive competition at CAR Online to win golden tickets to media day, and they rubbed shoulders with the world's media as cars like the Lotus Evora, Honda OSM and Ford Focus RS were unveiled.

Design Contest: Stile Italiano Giovani 2004

One of the sad things about being editor of a motoring magazine is turning down all the enthusiastic young job applicants who know exactly how to test Ferraris against Lamborghinis, using Porsches as benchmarks...exactly the kind of people I don't need. I imagine it might be the same with judging a design competition. There will be masses of young people who love drawing cars submitting their sketches - and there it all ends.