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2012 / 2013 Lexus GS 350 confirmed for Pebble Beach

The Lexus LF-Gh will turn in to the 2012 GS 350 at Pebble Back at the New York Motor Show in April Lexus revealed the LF-Gh Concept, a concept version of the next generation Lexus GS. And now we know that the Lexus GS 350 will get unveiled at Pebble Beach next month. Unlike the UK – where we get just a Hobson’s chocie in the GS with the GS 450h – Lexus offers our Colonial cousins a much wider choice.

Jaguar/Land Rover Virtual Reality Center

Jaguar Land Rover has opened a new 'Virtual Reality Center' at the Design and Engineering Center in Gaydon, UK. The 'state-of-the-art' design facility draws on advanced audio visual technologies with the projection power of the world's highest resolution projectors to significantly speed up product development cycles following an investment of £2 million. The new Virtual Reality Center allows engineers and designers to see and interact with life-size, three-dimensional models of vehicles and components, reducing the need for physical prototypes.

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.