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PSA Peugeot Citroen said its new facility in Shanghai, which will have design, research, development and procurement functions, is expected start operations in September.
The company said in a statement that the center is expected to help boost sales in the country to one mln units by 2015.
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The fifth Peugeot Design Competition explores new dimensions.
Young designers are invited to imagine a Peugeot for the megalopolis of tomorrow.
This concept car will be designed for use in the centre of the great urban cities of the future, while embracing the key values of the 21st century.
While bearing the mark of Peugeot's stylistic codes, projects must integrate the four dimensions specific to this design competition: environmental friendliness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency.
This year's competition kicks off for the first time outside Europe, at the 2008 Beijing Motor Show.
To underline its international appeal, the model of the winning project will also be presented in China at the Shanghai Motor Show in the spring of 2009.
The winner, whose project will be built in the form of a scale 1 model, will also receive a cheque for 10,000 euros and an Xbox 360 games console, and will have the opportunity to see his or her project manufactured as a 1/43 scale model by Norev.
The 29 other projects will also attract prizes, as in previous competitions.
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With few exceptions, the modern gadget is as impossible to navigate as were the seas before the sextant and the marine chronometer.
The reason?
The internal functions bear no relationship to anything we might encounter in the real world, so arbitrary abstractions are needed to bridge the gap between microchip and brain.
Add to this the fact that the UI is often an afterthought in most devices and you end up with something like the RAZR, hated far and wide for its labyrinthine control layout.
It wasn't always this way.
Perhaps if today's designers payed a little attention to the past they might come up with something a little easier to love, and a little less frustrating to use.
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Mahindra & Mahindra has set sights on Italian automotive style company, Stile Bertone-famed for designing iconic models like the Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini, Aston Martin and Ferrari.
The Turin-based car designing and contract manufacturer has been up for sale ever since Nuccio Bertone, son of founder-promoter Giovanni Bertone, passed away in February 1997.
The Mahindra group, which developed close business ties with the Bertone group after the Italian company designed some of its utility vehicles, is learnt to be talking to the Bertone family to explore options of buying an equity stake.
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13th edition of the International Bicycle Design Competition is open for entries.
IBDC will present the award-winning designs to bicycle manufacturers, with the goal of licensing one or more designs for mass-production.
Deadline of the competition is August 10, 2008.
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