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February 2012, 05
every sunday we choose a topic from the vast archive of designboom, today: automotive curiosity

superbowl commercial for chevy sonic published 02.04.12
	OK Go, champion skateboarder rob dyrdek, and millions of online watchers interact with the 'chevy sonic' in this year's superbowl commercial, which documents the car's first skydive, first music video, first kickflip, and first bungee jump.

	jenny db

hiriko collapsible electric city car published 01.26.12
	'hiriko', the commercial version of MIT media lab's 'citycar' concept, features no doors and a distributed engine system that together permit the already compact vehicle to fold up when parked.

	jenny db

volkswagen parking lot towers at autostadt published 01.24.12
	take a look inside the two towering silos at volkswagen's autostadt production and touring facility in germany, each housing hundreds of cars waiting to be picked up by customers.

	jenny db

dock + go concept for electric cars published 12.08.11
	designed by rinspeed, the 'dock+go' concept is a detachable third axel that offers additional, task-specific storage space for small electric vehicles: a heated food delivery pack, toolbox component, or additional energy reserves.

	jenny db

2013 ford mustang features projection lamp published 12.08.11
	activated by unlocking the car, a small lamp embedded under the vehicle's side mirror projects the image of a galloping horse onto the ground below.

	jenny db

tokyo motor show - kobot mini-cars published 12.02.11
	kowa tmsuk exhibits three ultra-compact electric vehicle concepts for cities, featuring extremely tight turning radii and a telescoping design that saves even more space when the devices are parked.

	jenny db

tokyo motor show - toyota fun-vii concept published 11.29.11
	described by toyota as 'a smartphone on wheels', the concept vehicle features an exterior and interior composed almost entirely of touchscreens, offering realtime customization of the car's appearance as well as an interface for data access and display.

	jenny db

fanwagen facebook car by volkswagen published 11.23.11
	volkswagen the netherlands converts the iconic 'T1' bus into a one-off facebook-themed vehicle, complete with 'wall', 'poke' button, and 'relationship status', as well as a realtime news feed printer.

	jenny db

LA auto show - hollywood movie car design challenge published 11.08.11
	honda, mercedes-benz, smart car, subaru, hyundai, and maybach car companies design concept vehicles and film plots to compete for the title of 'hollywood's hottest new movie car'.

	jenny db

kenneth cobonpue: phoenix bamboo concept car published 10.19.11
	organic materials such as bamboo and rattan are handwoven into a modern, yet natural automobile.

	bora db

electric dolorean goes back to the future published 10.18.11
	an all-electric version of the iconic vehicle is planned for commerical production in 2013.

	jenny db

luigi colani: aerodynamic race cars published 10.03.11
	the conceptual and realized car designs of the swiss-italian '3D philospher and scientific reality artist', are presented in a 1,500m² outdoor space at the triennale bovisa, milan.

	anita db

olaf mooij: braincar published 08.10.11
	by day, the 'braincar' captures and stores images and video as it drives, while by night, the footage is projected from within the brain sculpture into remixed videos, as though they were the vehicle's dreams about its day.

	jenny db

ferrari factory tour: design published 08.09.11
	designboom tours the ferrari car factories in maranello italy, giving you an inside look at the facilities where every ferrari in the world is hand-assembled. the last of three, this article looks at the design process of each custom vehicle.

	anita db

ferrari factory tour: mechanical workshop published 08.05.11
	designboom tours the ferrari car factories in maranello italy, giving you in this article an inside look at the mechanical workshop where motor components are produced.

	anita db

ferrari factory tour: assembly line published 08.01.11
	designboom tours the ferrari car factories in maranello italy, giving you an inside look at the facilities where every ferrari in the world is hand-assembled. the first of three, this article looks at the 'new assembly line'.

	anita db

custom art cars: art in the streets at MOCA, los angeles published 07.07.11
	the LA MOCA's current street art exhibition features several customized cars as sculpture: kenny scharf, keith haring and mister cartoon contribute different takes on the concept of the classic street art car.

	joyce db

hoverbike prototype published 06.10.11
	the prototype vehicle operates like a motorcycle but is predicted to be able to fly up to 10,000 feet in the air and travel at speeds up to 150 knots (173mph, or 278km/h).

	jenny db

floating ice cream truck published 06.02.11
	the 'HMS flake 99', the world's first land-and-water ice cream truck, begins touring the UK in celebration of national ice cream week and to revitalize the tradition of ice cream vans.

	jenny db

stphane couturier: melting point published 05.02.11
	at once wildly energetic and turbulent, the series consists of large-scale multiply-exposed colour negatives that were taken in a high-tech toyota factory in france.

	erica db

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