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2013 Interior Motives School League Report

With the launch of the 2014 Interior Motives Student Design Awards last week, design tutors around the world once again have the opportunity to shine a spotlight on their school's teaching excellence by propelling their school to the top of the Car Design News-Interior Motives Schools league. Encourage your students to submit their entries before the deadline of April 25th and you greatly increase your chance of joining the teaching elite in this year's top ten league table. For more info on the competition and how to enter, click here.

Building a business around Alfa lust

In a low-key industrial complex just north of Detroit sits a trove of 1960s and '70s Alfa Romeos. To describe it as a “treasure” trove doesn't quiet fit, because in the words of owner Richard Davisson, the Italian icons are “everything from pathetic to just about done.” Several of the dozen or so cars are gorgeous. Most are interesting.

Mopar salutes Don Garlits and muscle-car past as it eyes global future

Mopar made its name in performance and parts, but Chrysler's aftermarket division is staking its future on practicality. The brand celebrated its 75th anniversary on Tuesday at the Mopar engineering lab in Center Line, Mich., just north of Detroit. While it rolled out four custom cars with various stages of show-and-go upgrades and drag-racing legend Don Garlits, Mopar officials were decidedly forward-looking.