Product Description

This brand new title in the definitive Car Design Yearbook series features all the new cars launched worldwide from April 2008 to March 2009. This year's edition marks the launch of the Car Design Yearbook Awards, which nominate winners in the categories Best Concept Design, Best Production Design, Best Interior Design, Designer of the Year and Future Vision. For the eighth yearbook, Stephen Newbury and Tony Lewin also explore how tricks of the fashion trade - colour, texture, lines, patterns, shapes and seams - are used in the car industry, and consider the many varied facets of door design.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6266 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Review
Beautifully produced and seriously informative...for most of us it is a catalogue of motoring enchantments, dreams and follies --Brian Sewell at the Evening Standard

About the Author
STEPHEN NEWBURY has played a leading role in the creation of an exciting range of vehicles, from such concepts as the 3PV to such production cars as the Renault Clio Sport V6. He now works as a writer and design consultant. TONY LEWIN has been writing about cars and the car industry for 30 years. He is a former editor of What Car? magazine, and launched Financial Times Automotive World.

Customer Reviews

Nice overview of the year's designs
I've often wondered what's in this book because whenever you see it in shops it's always wrapped in cellophane and I daren't rip it open. Finally, I succumbed and ordered a copy.
And I'm pleasantly surprised. It's essentially (apart from the expected introductory pages) an alphabetical guide to the new cars (both production and concept) of the past year. Each model gets a two-page spread with what I call proper photographs (i.e you can actually see the cars, from various angles - the photography's not absurdly 'artistic') and a half-page critique of the design. The designer's name is listed and one or two technical details. The critique is reasonably critical and informed, thankfully.
The design of the book itself, consiering the rather limiting format, is really good. It feels lavish and expensive. The graphic design is effective. It's like a giant Observer's Book of Cars in a way except for the inclusion of concept cars, but that's no bad thing sometimes. If you can afford to buy it every year, it would eventually make quite a collection I imagine.
This year, they've introduced their own awards section, which is a bit pointless, especially since they chose the Renault Mégane as the best production car design (must've been a bad year for design).
On the whole though, a very nice book if you like this style and format.

Brilliant!!
This book, now in the 8th edition, gets better each year. A real collector's item, and builds up to a great history of car production and prototypes. Interesting to see how previous prototypes have made it into a full production model. Already looking forward to eddition No. 9.