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Starting Out: CDN launches Car Design Glossary

Drawing is the basic language of designers, and is the time-honoured way in which a designer will communicate an idea. However, designers are often required to describe or explain their designs - and the work of others - in words, and for this, they need a vocabulary. The vocabulary they use is one whose origins stretch back to another era and to different disciplines, and which, with the now multi-cultural nature of the profession and advances in computer technology, is still growing.

Ferrari 458 (which MAY be Eric Clapton’s & ISN’T a V12) on video

Ferrari 458 Special for Eric Clapton? A Ferrari 458 by Ferrari Special Projects which has been in H R Owen in London and may be Eric Clapton’s – and isn’t a V12 – caught on video. The interwebs have been ablaze the last few days with endless conjecture about a Ferrari 458 Italia said to sport a V12 engine and built by Ferrari ‘Special Projects’ for one Eric Patrick Clapton Esq.

Lamborghini's sixth Paris 2010 teaser photo

It's a shot of an exhaust pipe, which exits the concept car just below the support for the rear wing. We've now seen all six images, and they've shown everything from vents in the bonnet to stylish flourishes atop the V10 engine, plus glimpses of the interior and what appears to be a carbonfibre wheel. The concept car is expected to be almost completely carbonfibre, very light and Gallardo-powered.  Why is Lamborghini showing such a car?