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Design Contest: Interior Motives Awards 2011

Shortlisted entries have been announced for the 2011 Interior Motives Student Design Awards. After individual deliberation by our panel of renowned senior designers, students being tutored at colleges in a diverse range of countries including Israel, the Czech Republic, Australia, Taiwan, Canada and China, as well as in the established centres of Europe, the USA and Japan/Korea, have made the 68-strong shortlist of potential winners. Full details of this year's contenders can be viewed here.

Gordon Murray T27 electric car unveiled

Gordon Murray T27 Electric Car unveiled We first learned that the Gordon Murray T27 Electric Car was heading for an iStream process somewhere in the world back in late 2009. An electric version of the Gordon Murray Design T25 it was designed to be, and has now become, exactly what an electric car should be; a simple to build, uncomplicated people mover for congested urban environments. The perfect way round congested cities – and for three people.

Russians show great interest in Corvette legend Zora Arkus-Duntov

It wasn't until recently that Russians understood that Chevrolet Corvette chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov, the patron saint of the America's sports car, was a Russian. Now, there seems to be intense media interest in this fact in a country that is waking up to all things automotive related. Arkus-Duntov's life and work is on display at the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Center for Russian Emigres in Moscow.