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Video paints fantasy picture for Nissan Juke

WITH VIDEO -- Nissan Canada is reaching out to the video-gamer crowd to tout its Juke small crossover. The company is running a series of video episodes on YouTube with the common theme of "Urban Legend." We know this after getting an e-mail--which may or may not be part of a cloaked marketing effort--that points us to the latest video. The Juke, which uses Nissan's global small-car platform and has a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, is arriving in showrooms now.

Whos Where: Ford of Europe reshapes their design department

It was only to be expected that some of the brightest creative forces should follow Martin Smith who joined Ford of Europe from his position as GM Europe Design Director in August this year. Stefan Lamm was a studio chief designer at Opel - he was recently confirmed as Chief Designer Exteriors at Ford. At the same time two new appointments were announced alongside an interesting restructuring of Ford of Europe's design department.

Porsche 959 prototype to cross the block at Barrett-Jackson

When Professor Helmuth Bott arrived at the fledgling Porsche sports-car company in 1952, he was in his late 20s. The young engineer's first assignment was setting up a gearbox test stand for the company's new all-syncromesh Type 519 transaxle. Thirty-one years later, he gave the go-ahead for the development of a car that was to be the ultimate bleeding edge of what Porsche knew about building a rear-engined sports car.