Two years after the inauguration of its Automotive Design Network Centre in 2004, PSA Group has decided to establish two competing teams of stylists for each of its Peugeot and Citroën marques.

Pininfarina has announced that Ken Okuyama will no longer be its Director of Design, position that he has held since July 2005.

An official article by Mercedes-Benz that describes how innovative solutions featured on concept vehicles were successfully adopted on production cars during the last 15 years.

Before the launch of the Lancia Delta HPE Concept, many different media had published preview images of the prototype. We report a short gallery of some interesting and original "proposals".

During the German beach volleyball championships in Timmendorf, Smart has unveiled a sand sculpture that shows the design language of the new Fortwo model, which will be presented this autumn. The author is Pavel Zasanyok, a sand sculpture world champion from Russia.

Citroen has unveiled an exclusive garage designed by London-based Neutral architecture studio for the C6 model. The transparent concrete construction features coloured LCD layers allowing for opacity to be changed by the car owner.

ICEM, leading company in surface modeling and design visualization software, has announced that Ford Motor Company has made a significant purchase of ICEM Shape Design (ISD) software as part of its global C3P NG strategy.

The Nissan Sport Concept and Infiniti Kuraza concept vehicles will be featured in the science fiction animated movie "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society" produced by Production I.G, a major Japanese animation studio. The film will be available on DVD in 2007.

The "New Strada" is a project started by an Italian Engineering group in partnership with AADA (African Automotive Design Association). The mission is to build a modern riedition of the 60's Bizzarrini Strada GT 5300 supercar. We report some exclusive preliminary design studies.

For the first time, Ford is creating the preview brochures of its latest European models using digital renderings instead of conventional photographs. The realistic images are obtained using 3D models taken from the product design process.