Nov 7, 2019 | Motoring Writing
Bordrin’s customer-led design. By Mark Andrews Car Design News. 07/11/2019 Why there will be no family look over the Bordrin range of EVs Had you caught a cab in Beijing in the ‘90s or even early ‘00s, chances are it would have been a Xiali, a brand consisting of a...
Nov 6, 2019 | Motoring Writing
Ford’s renewed China push. By Mark Andrews Car Design News. 06/11/2019 Fording the Chinese Gap – how Ford aims to turn itself around by designing in China, for China Last year, Ford sold 383,485 locally produced cars in China, in its worst sales performance since...
Oct 15, 2019 | Motoring Writing
Interview: Valuing Venucia design with Taiji Toyota. By Mark Andrews Car Design News. 15/10/2019 Venucia’s deputy managing director talks about the future of Venucia design The plain tree-lined streets of Shanghai’s former French Concession may seem a strange place...
Oct 10, 2019 | Motoring Writing
Enovate – interview with Hakan Saracoglu. By Mark Andrews Car Design News. 10/10/2019 Can Enovate design a difference against other Chinese EV startups? CDN visited the company’s studio in Shanghai to find out… Two aircraft hanger size buildings dominate a plot in...
Oct 9, 2019 | Motoring Writing
Colin Phipps shows us around Nio’s recently opened Shanghai studio. By Mark Andrews Car Design News. 09/10/2019 Nio’s new head of design gives us a tour of the recently-opened Nio design studio in Shanghai and shows us the Chinese brand’s “humanisation of artificial...
Aug 5, 2019 | Motoring Writing
First Sight: Human Horizons HiPhi 1. By Mark Andrews Car Design News. 05/08/2019 At a spectacular launch event last week, Shanghai-based Human Horizons showed us its first production-ready protoype, a shooting-cross Is the crossover MPV the shape of the future? Human...