New Aston Martin DBS (AM 310) arrives at Villa D’Este

New Aston Martin DBS on the shores of Lake Como at Villa D’Este The new Aston Martin DBS – codenamed AM 310 – has arrived for its first public outing at Villa D’Este. Just as we exclusively revealed earlier this week, the new Aston Martin DBS has made its public debut this morning at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, and our friends from Autoblog Netherlands were there to catch it in the flesh. The new DBS is said to be 75 per cent new, and in terms of crossover parts directly from the DBS it is.

Whos Where: David Wilkie joins Mindset

Design Director, David Wilkie, announced last week that he is leaving Bertone to take up a full time position at Mindset AG. Mindset is a new company run by Murat Günak, previously head of Design at Volkswagen, that is developing the electric ‘Commuter' car previewed by Car Design News in February this year. Car Design News spoke with Wilkie about the move, who explained that he'd been working for Mindset part time, leading the design of the Commuter interior for several months now, but "I decided that for the good of Bertone, and for Mindset, that I needed to commit full time to one position; and the appeal of having my hands-on as a designer was very strong; and it's a project I really want to see through properly!" Wilkie is still committed to carrying through several projects at Bertone over the next few weeks as he makes the transition to working with Günak with whom he studied at the Royal College of Art.

Peugeot 208 GTi arrives

Peugeot finally recreates the 205 GTi - the Peugeot 208 GTi arrives at Geneva The Peugeot 208 GTi Concept has been revealed, powered by the 197bhp 1.6 litre turbo from the RCZ. Debuts at Geneva 2012. Yesterday we had what we were convinced was a tease for the Peuegot 208 GTi, and we were right.