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Who's Where: Ken Okuyama parts company with Pininfarina

Pininfarina, the Turin, Italy-based automotive styling house, has announced that its design director, Ken Okuyama, has left the company. In a tersely-worded statement Pininfarina said, "The Company's decision comes as a result of the various external activities Ken Okuyama was carrying out beyond his responsibilities within Pininfarina." Ken Okuyama had been Design Director at Pininfarina since July 2005. During this time, Okuyama's most high-profile work was the Maserati Birdcage prototype, created to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Italian styling house.

Michelin Challenge Design announces 2014 theme: ‘Driven/Undriven: The Duality of Tomorrow’s Automobiles’

Michelin has announced the theme for the 2014 Michelin Challenge Design competition – ‘Driven/Undriven: The Duality of Tomorrow's Automobiles'. Participants will explore the human-to-vehicle connection, focusing on how this can evolve automotive design. The exploration of autonomous vehicles has gathered pace in recent years, with Toyota displaying its autonomous Lexus car at the recent CES in Las Vegas, while other carmakers and even Google have been investing heavily in the concept.

Win one of four Binatone sat-navs

By Ben Pulman Competitions 12 May 2008 13:51 Fancy a sat-nav to stop you getting lost as you tour the UK, Ireland or even Europe this summer? CAR Online has teamed up with Binatone to offer you the chance to win a new portable sat-nav system.Click here to enter our competitionWe’ve got four sat-navs to give away. First prize is an X430 with European mapping coverage worth £149.99 while three runners-up will each receive an X350 with UK/Ireland coverage worth £79.99.As standard both models feature full UK seven digit postcode search, UK safety camera positions, male or female voice guidance, thousands of POIs, plus 2D and 3D mapping.