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Design Contest: 2007 World Automotive Design Competition winners announced

The winners of the 2007 World Automotive Design Competition (WADC), sponsored by Autodesk, were announced at the 2007 Canadian International Auto Show in February. The competition was relaunched in 2007 with a few new twists created to meet the needs of the global automotive industry. The fifth WADC strived to provide manufacturers worldwide with a source of new automotive design talent and to encourage design students, and especially women, to choose a career in automotive design.

Some hybrids are not a green as they seem, interest group says

Car buyers who think they are helping the planet by choosing a hybrid vehicle to aid in cutting emissions don't always get the biggest bang for their buck, according to an environmental interest group. A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that some hybrids come at a much higher price tag than their similarly equipped, conventional-powertrain counterparts, yet offer little in the way of environmental gain. These not-so-green hybrids compromise their value or eco-friendliness in a variety of ways.

Bentley Arnage successor to be launched at Pebble Beach

By Tim Pollard First Official Pictures 08 July 2009 10:10 Bentley has today issued its second teaser of the ‘grand new Bentley’ – the 2010 successor to the Arnage limousine. The official, authorised photo is another chance to see the finished Bentley that CAR scooped last week with our world exclusive spyshots of the Arnage replacement being finished in the Bentley factory. The new Bentley will be revealed, and named, for the first time at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Monterey, California in August 2009, where the company is a featured marque to celebrate its 90th anniversary.It looks very elegant, curvier than a Rolls, like a Bentley should...