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Brief 5 – Sculpting: CDN–GM Interactive Design Competition

The Car Design News and General Motors Interactive Design Competition is now open. It offers you the choice of five briefs, each set by GM's design teams, and entries are invited at http://www.cardesigncontest.com/ Sculpting, the fifth and final brief, is new for this year's running of the design competition. The challenge is to explore automotive sculpting; the fundamental principles of line, form, proportion and scale.

Range Rover Evoque Autobiography Dynamic to debut at Geneva

If you'd like to buy a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, you've got your choice of Pure, Pure Plus, Tropicana Pure Premium, Prestige and Dynamic. But say you're teetering between the Prestige and Dynamic models up at the top of the range; you want opulence and sportiness in equal measure. Fear not, for Tata's highfalutin' off-road division has heard your call.

Toyota drags down new-vehicle quality average; Ford leads Detroit 3 gains

Dragged down by Toyota Motor Corp., the quality of new cars and trucks sold in the United States slipped slightly this year--the first time since 2007, according to a study released Thursday. But Detroit's automakers--helped by Ford Motor Co. and some of the smoothest new-model launches ever--have matched or surpassed Asian and European rivals in initial vehicle quality for the first time, based on the closely watched J.D.