The students of the Transportation Design Course of IED Turin have presented ten proposals for a next generation Toyota Prius as their thesis projects, with the title "Tomorrow's Hybrid vehicle".

American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an engaging account of the BMW Group's Deep Blue project, intended to create the SUV of the future.

Land Rover has announced that Phil Simmons, currently Chief Designer at Ford of Europe, will join its design team on 1st August 2007. He will be responsible for future design direction of all Range Rover products.

A short interview with industrial and transportation designer Tommy Forsgren, currently Senior Designer at BMW Group DesignWorksUSA.

Fiat has inaugurated its new Turin-based Styling Center. The facility has a total area of about 20,000 square meters and will host all the design activities for the group's different brands.

The links to the main galleries that document the 2007 edition of the College for Creative Studies Student Show, including an extensive report published by CarDesign.ru.

Virtual reality software company Virtalis has announced that Coventry University has purchased its 1:1 scale stereo visualisation system StereoWorks for the Automotive Design courses.

Kia Motors Chief Design Officer, Peter Schreyer is to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Royal College of Art in recognition of his contribution to automotive design on Friday 29 June 2007.

Autodesk has announced that it will acquire certain assets of Opticore, the Swedish company specialized in software for interactive and realistic 3D visualizations and presentations.

Many rumors have been recently circulating about a possible rebirth of a baby-Ferrari, that could bear the legendary Dino name. We report a gallery of the artistic impressions and renderings that use different design approaches to show how such a vehicle could look like.