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College Exhibition: Strate College Degree Show 2004

Sep 20, 2004 - Graduating Transportation Design students at France's Strate Coll?ge displayed their Diploma projects in the school's annual degree show, held at the central Paris school in June. Go to Photo Gallery 220 photos Strate Coll?ge is one of the leading European schools for transportation design, and has become a major source of recruitment for automotive design studios in France as well as internationally. Graduating diploma student Thibaut Doneux presented 'Skin Deep', an interior concept for Renault.

Million Dollar Fiat: 1953 Zagato Fiat 8V Elaborata

Fiat's first, and only, V8 engine debuted at the 1952 Geneva Auto Show powering a sleek two-seater intended to dominate Ferrari, Maserati and Lancia in two-liter sports-car racing. The car was designated the 8V, or Otto Vu in Italian, because Fiat had mistakenly thought that Ford held a trademark on V8. Fiat's legendary design engineer Dante Giacosa mounted the upper portions of a pair of 70-degree V4 engines on a single crankcase to make the 1996-cc, OHV V8.

Toyota talks powertrain plans

After trailing many of its competitors in the recent engine- and transmission-technology wars, Toyota Motor Corp. will launch a swath of powertrains in the next several years, a top powertrain r&d executive said. Koei Saga, senior managing officer in charge of drivetrain r&d, said that Toyota is investing heavily in turbocharged engines, larger displacement Atkinson cycle engines, continuously variable and fixed-gear automatic transmissions, and new hybrid and fuel cell technologies.