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2013 Interior Motives School League Report

With the launch of the 2014 Interior Motives Student Design Awards last week, design tutors around the world once again have the opportunity to shine a spotlight on their school's teaching excellence by propelling their school to the top of the Car Design News-Interior Motives Schools league. Encourage your students to submit their entries before the deadline of April 25th and you greatly increase your chance of joining the teaching elite in this year's top ten league table. For more info on the competition and how to enter, click here.

One Lap of the Web: The Weird World of Wheels

-- Introducing the greatest television show you've never heard of: "Operation: Mystery!" Imagine if the "X-Files" took place in 1960s Japan, and had its own cool custom car the heroes rolled around in: the Tortoise, a pudgy little thing that resembled the unholy combination of an Opel GT and a Dustbuster. It was bulletproof (not really), had gullwing doors (really) and was based on a Subaru 360 (really!). Sadly, its whereabouts are unknown, and it might have disappeared into the ether along with the UFOs its heroes probably investigated.

Toyota i-Road concept (2013) first official pictures

This is the Toyota i-Road, a tiny concept car that will be officially unveiled at the 2013 Geneva motor show tomorrow. It's a two-seater, three-wheeled electric city car that Toyota reckons is the future of urban motoring. Is the Toyota i-Road a potential Renault Twizy rival? If it does go into production, the pair could be pretty close.