Local Motors has announced the Light Bar Competition, an engineering contest that asks participants to create a light bar for the upcoming Rally Fighter production off-roader. The company has made the chassis data publicly available. The deadline is 20 July 2009.

From 27 June 2009 until 7 February 2010 the Los Angeles-based Petersen Automotive Museum will host the exhibition titled "California Car Design: local style, global influence" dedicated to vehicles designed in the Southern California area.

French magazine L’argus de l’automobile has launched its 8th European Design Competition, with the brief "Less is more: travelling in the era of simplicity". The contest is open to European design students and the submission deadline is 11 December 2009.

The Guild of Motoring Writers (GoMW) in association with Coventry University has organized a symposium titled 'How to Evaluate Car Design', which will take place at the university facilities on 4 June 2009.

Local Motors has announced the results of the Detroit Motor design competition. The first three places were respectively won by Dmytro Zyubyairov from Germany, French Mayeul Walser and Romanian Mihai Panaitescu.

Czech magazine AutoDesign&Styling in partnership with Allivision has announced the first edition of "Allivision09 - Ideas for a Better World", a competition open to designers under 35 years which asks to create an eco-concept car for the near future. The submission deadline is 31 August 2009.

The winners of the design competition organized by the Royal College of Art and sponsored by Opel. The first place was won by French student Augustin Barbot, who presented a futuristic magnetic levitation vehicle.

The official report of the annual BMW Group Design Talk whoch took place during the Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este. The theme for the panel discussion was 'Art and Design: Is Modesty the new Luxury?'

DesignerTechniques has announced the results of its 3rd design competition focused on commercial trucks inspired by a non-automotive brand. The first three prizes were respectively won by Flavio Michellod, Nicholas Bormann and Silingov Vitaliy.

An extensive report of the "From Dream to Reality" collective car design exhibition which took place in Teheran, Iran. It presented many projects and works of young Iranian designers, including some new projects specifically developed in teams.