New Nissan Friend-ME Concept Made with the Help of Chinese Designers

Nissan’s booth at the Auto China 2013 in Shanghai will include the brand’s first concept car developed with key input from Chinese designers. Called the "Friend-ME", the study has been shaped with the help of Chinese designers working at Nissan Design China in Beijing. Nissan says local designers were fully engaged in the design as well as the development process of the Friend-ME. Read more »

Nissan Tells Us All We Need to Know About Clay Models in Video

All present cars are designed on a computer, the modern equivalent of stories such as the one about how children would climb over Sir William Lyons' manor wall and watch Mr. Jaguar sketch out his designs in the back yard do not have a modern equivalent.

If they did, it would imply the kids would be familiar with the use of window-washing equipment, so as to ascend to the upper floors of the skyscrapers where cars are dreamt up nowadays, and peer through the glass at computer screens.

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