Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge 2022 - Full route
An animation of the full route of the 2022 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.
At the end of 2020, the year in which Alfa Romeo celebrated its 110th birthday, Arnaud Leclerc, Head of Alfa Romeo EMEA, Klaus Busse, Head of Design EMEA and Fabio Migliavacca, Head of Product Marketing EMEA, reveal the background to the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA project. The four-door high-performance sedan is the most powerful production vehicle in the history of Alfa Romeo, a super sports car for road and race track. With a power output of 397 kW (540 hp), the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA is a gift that the brand makes to every Alfa Romeo fan and every lover of automobiles in general. In the video, Leclerc, Buses and Migliavacca convey the emotions they have lived through during the project. They look back on development, design and production, on the time span from the first sketches to the market launch. For them, the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA is a true brand icon, a symbol of Italian culture and performance, Italian design and technical know-how. The two model versions GTA and GTAm - the "m" stands for modified - are built together only 500 times. In this detail too, the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA pays homage to one of the most symbolic vehicles in the brand's history: the 1965 Giulia GTA.
An animation of the full route of the 2022 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.
Hyundai Motor Group has revealed TIGER (Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot), the company’s second Ultimate Mobility Vehicle (UMV) and the first designed to be uncrewed. The transforming intelligent ground excursion robot is designed to carry various types of payload while traveling over challenging terrain. TIGER is being developed by Hyundai Motor Group’s New Horizons Studio, headquartered in Mountain View, California. The studio was established in late 2020 to develop UMVs drawing on research and innovation leadership from Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs.
The EV6 was designed under the brand’s new design philosophy, ‘Opposites United’, which takes inspiration from the contrasts found in nature and humanity. At the centre of the design philosophy is a new visual identity evoking positive forces and natural energy, with contrasting combinations of sharp stylistic elements and sculptural shapes. Karim Habib, Senior Vice President and Head of Kia Global Design Center, elaborated: “EV6, as the first dedicated Kia EV, is a showcase of human-centred, progressive design and electrified power. We strongly believe EV6 is a compelling and relevant model for the new EV era. With EV6, we aimed to create a distinctive, impactful design by using a combination of sophisticated, high-tech features on pure and rich volumes while providing a dedicated EV aiming to define our future.” Designed to deliver something different in the crossover class, the GT version of the EV6 offers a distinctive, impactful exterior with high-tech features, as well as unprecedented levels of performance from a Kia electric vehicle. At the front, Kia’s ‘tiger face’ has been re-interpreted for the digital era. Forming part of this ‘Digital Tiger Face’, daytime running lights display a sleek, modern appearance and include a ‘sequential’ dynamic light pattern. Below this, a low air intake visually widens the front of the car, accentuating its high-tech image. The side profile displays a crossover-inspired silhouette, which is modern, sleek and aerodynamic. A character line runs along the bottom of the doors, curving upwards towards the rear wheel arches to visually elongate the profile of the car. Designed in part to realise ultimate aerodynamic performance, the rear displays a sloping C-pillar with an integrated black glossy insert which appears to extend the window glass. Above this sits a prominent wing-type roof spoiler that channels air downwards towards a raised lower spoiler, which sits atop the car’s unique rear light cluster
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