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The Designers, Pt 11 – Sooshin Choi, College for Creative Studies

Car Design News launched its first-ever Car Design Review yearbook at the Geneva Motor Show, featuring the award-winning Production Car and Concept Car Designs of 2013. If you're interested in buying a copy of the 160-page yearbook this interview appears in, alongside trend reports, bespoke car design infographics and a special feature on Marcello Gandini, our inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Car Design Review can be purchased here. Name Sooshin ChoiRole Professor of design, College for Creative StudiesAge, nationality 56, KoreanLocation Michigan, USAEducation Seoul National University, Hong-Ik University, RCA "There were some good production cars in 2013.

GM preps for new engines, 8-speed transmission

General Motors is spending $332 million to upgrade powertrain plants in three states to build a new eight-speed automatic transmission, a new V6 and a new family of small-displacement gasoline engines. The plants are in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. GM is also adding $46 million to an earlier $600 million program to upgrade powertrain plants in Saginaw and Romulus, Mich.

Hyundai ix20 prices

The Hyundai ix20 - on sale in November We got teased with the next instalment of the Hyundai world domination plan – the Hyundai ix20 – a few weeks before the Paris Motor Show, but only as a sketch tease. We had to wait another couple of weeks to get a real photo of the ix20 and then a reveal at Paris. But despite it only being last month that we got the first tease on the ix20 Hyundai will be ready to take orders next month, which means we’ll need to know what’s on offer and how much it costs.