THE main language spoken at the Shanghai auto show is Chinese, but the vocabulary of the designs is polyglot: Italian flourishes, high Japanese roofs, German solidity, American assertiveness. What is missing? Almost anything that could indicate the emergence of a distinctly Chinese school of automotive design. China has the world's fastest-growing auto market and has already overtaken Japan in domestic sales; it now trails only the United States. Both multinational and Chinese automakers have learned that it is a lot easier to build new car factories than to instill a new generation of Chinese designers and engineers with the sensibilities to have a lasting effect on global automotive design.
The New York Times has an interesting article on the need for developing a distinctive Chinese design language for automobiles. Full story here.
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have a look at 'china project' on www.coroflot.com/adamkphillips