1.   And now it is stumbling in its response to the popularity of sport utilities based on car designs.

2.   Asensio has been the director of medium car design and the third-ranking designer over all at Renault.

3.   Batteries remain the great limiting factor in electric car design.

4.   A concept car, as any car nut can tell you, is a prototype designed to shake up dusty, entrenched notions of car design.

5.   A paradox of this burst of imagination in car design is that it is happening as the industry consolidates.

6.   Car designs and doctors are also credited with saving lives.

7.   By most measures this is a golden age for car design.

8.   Dodge is racing front-drive Stratus sedans and learning a good deal about car design in the process.

9.   For example, Cray said it had many customers in the auto industry who use traditional vector supercomputers to simulate noise vibrations in car designs.

10.   Ford has been losing market share in Europe as rival automakers, particularly Volkswagen AG, have introduced more exciting car designs.