The Car Design Yearbook 8: The Definitive Annual Guide to All New Concept and Production Cars Worldwide - Hardcover

Stephen Newbury

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9781858944760: The Car Design Yearbook 8: The Definitive Annual Guide to All New Concept and Production Cars Worldwide

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858944767 ISBN 13: 9781858944760

Publisher: Merrell, 2009

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This new title in The Car Design Yearbook series features all the new cars launched worldwide from April 2008 to March 2009. This year's edition marks the launch of the Car Design Yearbook Awards, which nominate winners in the categories Best Concept Car, Best Production Car, Best Interior, The Environmental Award and Designer of the Year. For the eighth yearbook, Stephen Newbury and Tony Lewin also explore how tricks of the fashion trade - colour, texture, lines, patterns, shapes and seams - are used in the car industry, and consider the many varied facets of door design.

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About the Author:

Tony Lewin has been writing about cars and the car industry for 30 years. He is a former editor of What Car? magazine, and launched Financial Times Automotive World. Stephen Newbury has played a leading role in the creation of an exciting range of road vehicles, from concepts such as the 3PV to contemporary production cars such as the Volvo C70 and the Renault Clio Sport V6. He now works as a freelance writer and design consultant.

Review:

The definitive resource for enthusiasts - AUTOWEEK This is a rarity, almost an oxymoron - an intelligent car book - BLUEPRINT Beautifully produced and seriously informative...for most of us it is a catalogue of motoring enchantments, dreams and follies - BRIAN SEWELL AT THE EVENING STANDARD It's the eight in a series that is fast becoming an annual event in the motor industry calender, covering not just all the major new production cars, but also the prototype or concept cars that signal future design direction - DAILY MAIL As a point of reference for car design, there's nothing better - AUTO EXPRESS The latest in Merrell's annual car design-fest is typically stylish - OCTANE

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