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Hydrogen-powered Toyota FCV Concept revealed

  The Hydrogen-powered Toyota FCV Concept (pictured) revealed Toyota revealed last month that their latest take on a hydrogen-powered car would be revealed at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show. And here it is – the Toyota FCV Concept. The FCV Concept points clearly at Toyota’s first proper production fuel cell car – expected to hit Toyota showrooms in 2015 – and Toyota are keen we realise that, subject to a refuelling infrastructure, the hydrogen-powered FCV is just like owning a regular ICE car.

Interior Motives Design Awards 2004 announces judging panel

Interior Motives magazine has announced its judging panel for the 2004 Interior Motives Design Awards. This year's judges include some of the world's most respected senior automotive designers and design managers from carmakers and interior suppliers. The judges are: - Olivier Boulay, Senior Executive Officer & Corporate General Manager, Product Design Office, Mitsubishi Motors Corp - Guy Burgoyne, Studio Chief Designer, Product Design, Volvo Cars - Simon Cox, Design Director, GM Advanced Design - UK - Bill Fluharty, Vice-President Industrial Design - North America, Johnson Controls Inc - Steve Lewis, Design Manager, Seat Cars - Justyn Norek, Design Manager, I.D.E.A Institute - Sarah Maynard, Interior Designer, Aston Martin - Roberto Piatti, Managing Director, Stile Bertone - Marek Reichman, Director Interior Strategy Product and Design Process, Ford Motor Company - Rus Shafer, Director, Industrial Design, Intier Automotive - Andreas Wlasak, Director of Industrial Design - Interior Systems, Faurecia This year's awards - which will take place during the Paris Motor Show on 24 September 2004 - have attracted almost 200 registrations from students of transportation and industrial design from 20 countries.

Vogon poetry: Mercedes-Benz shows off S63 AMG Coupe

Depending on your taste for the "crown of literature," the above video is either barbaric hokum or sublime wordplay -- image-laden poetry, in AABB rhyming scheme, appealing to car enthusiasts making full use of their expensive English majors. "Darkness has a companion tonight," reads the passably Vincent Price-ish voice of a poem written exclusively for AMG by a "Betty Stewart," over sounds of the Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe roaring mellifluously across abandoned runways and through the world's largest parking garage. "Small creatures prick ears and tremble with fright.