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Design Services: Car Menu launched

Within almost every automotive design department throughout the world, their comes a time when a junior designer is dispatched to find a picture of some new model's tail lamp, the side view of a particular class leading competitor or examples of several new cars' colour and trim packages. Whilst looking at the competition is not necessarily a healthy way of finding ideas, it is often essential to demonstrate what is feasible, check in-house proposals are not too derivative, or show how advanced a design theme is relative to the same type of cars on the market. But even if the particular aspect of a car can be found, press packs and magazines typically show cars in the flattering light of an exotic location or being drifted around a corner on opposite lock; rarely are these images particularly useful.

BMW X7 back on?

The BMW X7 - Made for China Yes, yet another BMW X-Something to consider – the BMW X7. This time an enormous SUV that was canned as an idea a couple of years ago when the world went in to financial meltdown, but one that is starting to look like a sensible move once more for BMW. Sensible?

Peugeot 308 SW (2014) first official pictures

By Ollie Kew First Official Pictures 06 January 2014 11:00 This is the new Peugeot 308 SW, the station wagon variant of the new 308 hatchback. Like its hatchback sister, it’s much lighter, more spacious, and smarter looking than its immediate predecessor. In fact, it could be about to pull the rug from under the VW Golf Estate and Seat Leon ST’s tyres… A huge boot!