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Scuola Politecnica di Design and Volkswagen offer scholarships for Transportation and Car Design Masters

The Scuola Politecnica di Design and Volkswagen Group Design are offering eight scholarships for this year's Transportation and Car Design Master's program, which starts on 21 October. Aspiring designers who hold a degree in transportation design, car design or equivalent have the chance to be awarded partial and full-fee tuition waivers should they impress the examination board. The selection is based on a portfolio evaluation, an interview and the submission of a project set by the examination board to test the candidate's conceptual and technical abilities.

Lexus LF-A still on the cards

With the car world in turmoil, and buyers running scared of high performance cars, most of the car makers around the world are shelving their high-end projects until things settle down. Honda has announced that it has put its NSX replacement on ice (although it is apparently still going to show it at Detroit) and other manufacturers are concentrating on their frugal products. But Toyota is taking a different tack.

Car giant starts recruitment phase

CAR GIANT Jaguar Land Rover has started recruiting for the first phase of 1,700 new jobs to support production of new vehicles. The company said 500 production staff will be taken on as part of expansion plans at its factory in Solihull, West Midlands. The carmaker is investing £1.5 billion in the UK and plans to increase its workforce at Solihull to almost 8,000.