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Alfa Romeo Displays Carabo Concept, Speculation Abounds

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Instead, the Italian automaker rolled out the Carabo concept from the 1968 Paris Motor Show. I’m sure that the inclusion of our futuristic Carabo here will arouse great amazement among the participants in Milan Design Week,” stated Raffaele Russo, Managing Director of Alfa Romeo in Italy. But it wasn’t a new design.

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In Memoriam: Marcello Gandini, an Automotive Design Master

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Though perhaps best known for the flashy and outrageous Lamborghini Countach, Gandini’s pen was applied to many other Italian, German, French, British, Japanese, and Swedish concepts and production designs. Born on August 26th, 1938 in Turin, Italy, Marcello Gandini was the son of a conductor.

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Volkswagen AG coordinating new €6M EU research project on drop-in biocatalytic solar fuels

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This basic concept is in line with the fundamental approach (CO 2 + water + renewable energy → drop-in fuels) being taken by Audi (a member of the Volkswagen Group) in its e-fuels initiatives. Technology concept formulated. Experimental proof of concept. Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy.

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Lamborghini confirms SUV, launch in 2018

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A concept of the car was first presented as the Lamborghini Urus in 2012 at the Beijing auto show. Lamborghini, Italdesign Giugiaro and Ducati have developed very successfully under Audi parentage, and kept their Italian identity. —Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management Audi AG. 2012 Lamborghini Urus.

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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. The method also makes it possible to examine how changes in urban geography affect human movement over time.

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Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo concept to be used as race taxi in Formula E; “virtuality turns into reality”

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Audi has produced the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo concept car, which it will deploy as a race taxi in Formula E starting with the race in Rome on Saturday 14 April. Audi has been working together with Sony and Polyphony Digital—the creators of “Gran Turismo”—for nearly 20 years. seconds.

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

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Audi is supporting the German team (the “ Part-Time Scientists ”) in the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) competition with its know-how in several fields of technology from quattro all-wheel drive and lightweight construction to electric mobility and piloted driving. The concept of a privately financed mission to the moon is fascinating.

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