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Exclusive: Pierre Castinel resigns from Head of Design role at Tata

Tata's Head of Design, Pierre Castinel, has resigned from his post to accept a position at PSA, Car Design News has learned. Castinel was originally hired to develop the design direction and form a brand identity for Tata's full line of vehicles, including cars, pickups, SUVs, MPVs, trucks and buses, but things haven't been going well at the Indian automaker. According to insiders, Tata closed Castinel's design studio in the British midlands last year, forcing the UK-based team to move into the automaker's engineering center in Warwickshire.

Carroll Shelby recovering from health scare

Racing legend Carroll Shelby is slowly recovering from a recent health scare and could leave the hospital in the coming weeks. Shelby has been hospitalized after catching the flu, which turned into a case of pneumonia. Shelby, 89, has received heart and kidney transplants over the course of his life and dealt with a number of health issues.

Pagani Huayra: First US Pagani dealers revealed

Pagani Huayra - now on sale in the USA For a car maker that’s sold fewer cars in its ten year life than Toyota makes in fifteen minutes, Pagani has built a real reputation as a maker of hugely desirable hypercars. Remarkably, that reputation has been built whilst excluding from it sales market the biggest market for hypercars of all – the United States. But that’s about to change.