Affairs / Automotive
Monocolumn
Thursday 13 September
Sporting greats aren’t always on the track
Professor Sid Watkins, who died on Wednesday evening at the age of 84, unified Formula 1 motor racing.
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Design / Manufacturing
Little wonder
Japan’s mini-car boom was rooted in affordability, low taxation and aesthetic myopia. Then Honda handed its new mini-car project to an F1 engineer, who surprised everyone by putting high-spec design at the heart of the kei…
Affairs / Automotive
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 December
2010: A look under the bonnet
At the beginning of 2009 pretty much every industry commentator was predicting auto-armageddon for the world’s car makers, but a combination of gadzillions of government dollars and wildly successful cash for clunkers…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Saturday 21 November
The fine art of nation branding
The Swarovski chandeliers in Abu Dhabi’s seven-star Emirates Palace hotel vied for attention this week with equally luminous visitors from the world’s best contemporary art galleries.
Business / Automotive
Monocolumn
Friday 18 September
The crash-proof supercars
It’s as if the Lehman brothers had never met. A quick look at the list of new cars unveiled at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show (open to the public until 27 September), reveals an unprecedented number of outlandish, expe…
Design / Automotive
Driving test
Whether it is solid German engineering at Hochschule Pforzheim, new technologies at the RCA in London or size limitations at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, what rolls off students’ drawing boards today could…
Affairs / Society
The world's top 25 most liveable cities
Months of good-natured, frequently late-night and occasionally jetlagged debate have resulted in this: our definitive (and a little subjective) guide to the world’s most liveable cities. Here’s how we came to our conclus…