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Video: Jaguar's Julian Thomson on the importance of design values

Jaguar's Head of Advanced Design, Julian Thomson, appeared at this month's PSFK Conference in London giving a talk on design values. Thomson's talk, ‘Concepting Dreams, Making Reality Happen', dealt with questions of creating a design story as well as how Jaguar uses the value of its heritage while keeping things original and new. Thomson – the man behind the 2010 C-X75 and the recently revealed F-Type – said, "You can't get a good design story if you don't look at your heritage, where you came from, where your values came from." He went on to discuss the ‘sad years of Jaguar', from around 1968 to 2004 where Jaguar was too timid to develop and "essentially made the same-looking car." He put this down to a reluctance on Jaguar's part to move too far away from its successful models and, quite interestingly, because "not only did we start doing market research, we started asking Americans what they wanted." Watch the full video on the left.

Audi RS4 Avant Nogaro (2014) first pictures of RS2 tribute edition

By Ollie Kew First Official Pictures 05 February 2014 12:20 Audi is congratulating itself on inventing the super-estate by building a special edition version of the RS4 Avant, in tribute to the classic RS2. The RS4 Nogaro edition will be revealed at the Geneva motor show in March 2014. Retro cosmetic tweaks, inside and out.

BMW 4 Series stars at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show

This is the first ever BMW 4 Series coupe, debuting here at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show. It’s BMW’s efforts to better separate and identify the 3 Series saloon and coupe models, so now the two-door coupe gets its very own ‘4 Series’ boot badge. We’ll cut to the chase, too – it’s good, very good.