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Bayley visits the McLaren Technology Centre (CAR archive April 2007)

Bayley visits the McLaren Technology Centre (CAR archive April 2007)

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Stephen Bayley, 28 June 2012 09:09

My first visit to McLaren was 1967, organised by a dutiful parent with industry connections. In those days the premises was an insanitary lock-up garage on a Weybridge trading estate. A boggle-eyed schoolboy, I was admiring the M6 Can-Am car. My boggling increased when, from out back, a cheery, chattery bloke emerged in grubby racing overalls, unpolished lace-ups, rubbing Swarfega ...

BMW's influence in car design, by Stephen Bayley

BMW's influence in car design, by Stephen Bayley

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Stephen Bayley, 23 January 2012 09:23

To appreciate the resonance of the last decade’s revolution in BMW design, it’s necessary to understand the company’s huge historic debt to a modernist ideas factory that became the world’s most influential art school. 'Art and technology : a new unity' was the Bauhaus slogan and before the Second World War, BMW already had a department of Kunstlerische Gestaltung (Artistic ...

Stephen Bayley on the new design mantra transforming Jaguar

Stephen Bayley on the new design mantra transforming Jaguar

Rated 3 out of 53

Stephen Bayley, 21 May 2010 12:00

XJ is ‘Experimental Jaguar’, a programme launched in 1964 which resulted in the 1968 car that was routinely described as the-most-beautiful-saloon-in-the-world. Indeed, it was so successful an experiment that the imaginations of those charged with designing its successor were hobbled: when the outgoing XJ was launched in Paris there were gasps from the crowd.  And they were not gasps of ...

Stephen Bayley on Japanese car design

Stephen Bayley on Japanese car design

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Stephen Bayley, 20 August 2009 09:00

My own first visit to Japan was nearly 30 years ago.We drove to Heathrow in my wife’s Morris Minor which broke down in Hammersmith. These period details are important. In those days you travelled in a JAL DC-8 and a refuelling stopover in Anchorage was obligatory because the Soviets would not allow overflights of Siberia. Sole concession to cultural interest ...

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