News

Smash somethin’! Modern car safety through better design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 24, 2012

The B-Max survives a battering from a 30mph crash test Recently we crept away to Germany, to a secretive patch…

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News

Prime Cuts: A legendary open top – the 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 24, 2012

As Britain experiences a minor heatwave this week, the country that buys more convertible cars per person than any other…

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Product Design

The hard side

Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 28, 2012

Ford's latest model, the B-Max, eschews the traditional 'B' pillar that provides side impact support and rigidity, getting around this…

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News

Smaller engines and clever engineering will have a bigger impact on design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 16, 2012

The new EcoBoost engine is powerful enough for racing, but economical enough for a family car Design has always sped…

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News

My new Ford… kind of

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 5, 2012

Those nice people at Ford have been at it again, showing off their design and engineering prowess with the launch…

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Product Design

Is modern car design all a bit boring?

Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 13, 2013

Tanya Weaver doesn’t own a car and she doesn’t particularly want to either as most mass produced, economy cars are…

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Features

Life in the fast lane

Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 8, 2013

There is a shortage of engineers in the UK as young people often don't feel inspired to follow a career…

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Manufacturing

Fabrication fanatics

Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 22, 2013

So you've got an idea; an on-going project; a little thing you'd like to make, or a big job that…

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Features

Behind closed doors: Ford’s secretive technology centre

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 6, 2013

Stephen Holmes ventures into Ford's secretive base in Germany to uncover how it is utilising 3D printing and VR to…

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News

TechShop opens first European outpost in Munich with BMW

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 2, 2013

We’re big fans of the expansion of TechShop, a ‘gym membership’ scheme for workshops and equipment, which has now announced…

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