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souvenir programme£2 Welcome to Coventry Car Day 2012 Coventry is a city shaped by the car, and today we’re 2 STREET COX celebrating that heritage – FORD STREET and at the same time looking Transport forward to the cars of the museum LOWER FORD STREET future. Today’s display has P veteran and vintage cars, Enter from FAIR X STREET F Ford St modern supercars, electric A R vehicles, hybrids, one-offs. I N Britannia G We have a host of experts Hotel R PRIORY STREET PRIORY O COVENTRY A debating the future of cars, D TOURS revealing how the British motor industry has changed, EVENSONG SQUARE ONE explaining how to get a SYMPOSIUM, VEHICLE job in the motor industry, BUGATTI LECTURE, QUESTION TIME and answering your car- DISPLAY building Starley James related questions. And there are car-themed events in Alan Berry building Coventry Cathedral and the C Coventry Herbert Art Gallery. So join Un IVERSITY STREET OX Cathedral SQUARE us in celebration of the past, BAY present and future of the car city L at Coventry Car Day. centre EY The Hub The Programme editor Andrew Noakes L Herbert Kyle Ecob, James Taylor, Jason Craig FAIR X STREET A Contributors FA Coventry Car Day organizers JORDAN WE John Mair, Brian Clough and Andrew Noakes ll GO R For Coventry University MOTORING sf I Vice Chancellor Prof Madeleine Atkins ORD S N HISTORY T G Pro Vice Chancellor Dr David Pilsbury CAREERS Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Computing EXHIBITION R EVENT VEHICLE O Prof Paul Ivey MU Dean of School of Art & Design Prof Jill Journeax DISPLAY A D Graphics Dean Stockton C H PARK STREET Thanks to Peugeot, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Renault, Owen Ready at CarDesignNews.com, WHITEF Lightning, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry Transport Museum, Herbert Art Gallery, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Coventry Telegraph, Touch FM, Graham Harwood and Phoenix Racing, Coventry RIAR City Council, Coventry Stadium Coventry station www.coventry.ac.uk/coventyrcarday S Follow us on Twitter @coventrycarday © Coventry Car Day 2012 INTRODUCTION Welcome to Coventry Car Day 2012 COX STREET COX Timetable FORD STREET 9am • Square One Symposium on the future of the car Industry speakers and academics debate the future LOWER FORD STREET of the car FAIR 10am onwards • Herbert Art Gallery FAX STREET R Coventry motoring history exhibition I N G R 11am onwards • Priory St O A Coventry automotive tours D Walking and minibus tours of locations around the city connected to Coventry’s motoring past and present SQUARE ONE 11am • Hub ground floor SYMPOSIUM, DEGREE 3 BUGATTI LECTURE, Automotive careers Q&A SHOW QUESTION TIME James Starley building Starley James A panel of motor industry experts answer your questions GROVE ST on working in the motor industry 11.30am • Hub ground floor C Automotive careers fair OX STREET OX Maurice Foss One-on-one advice from automotive employers, P building organizations and Coventry University’s careers team Enter from Grove St 1.30pm • Square One Bugatti Lecture: Sir Nick Scheele Bugatti/ Former Jaguar and Ford executive Sir Nick Scheele will Graham speak on changing role of the British motor industry Sutherland buildings R 3pm • Square One GO M6 sf I ORD S N motorway Coventry Car Question Time T G A panel of motor industry figures will take your questions R on cars and the motor industry VEHICLE O DISPLAY A D 4.15pm • Coventry Cathedral Evensong WHITE P Sir Nick Scheele will read a lesson at Evensong All day • University Square & The Hub F Vehicle display RI Around 100 new and old vehicles on display, many of AR them with connections to Coventry S 4 All events subject to confirmation Tomorrow’s car The future of cars will be debated by a panel of experts with wide-ranging motor industry experience Coventry Car Day begins with a symposium in Square One which will Speakers include: P see motor industry experts debate eter the future of the car. W hite image © 2011 The number of cars on the planet is set to at least double by 2050, and ‘peak oil’ may already have been reached. Car manufacture is unsustainable in its current form. But Sir John Egan Richard Steve Cropley AEI legislation and attitudes surround- magazine, S Chancellor, Seymour Editor in chief, ing cars are rooted in last century’s Coventry University Designer and Autocar design director, technology – and that might prevent n Chief executive n Respected Seymourpowell development of lightweight cars, of Jaguar when automotive writer, the company n One of visiting professor AE built in a more sustainable way and Europe’s best of automotive I was restructured, nternational. using energy more efficiently. split from British known and most journalism To spark debate about future Leyland and accomplished at Coventry University. cars, the symposium will have short, privatised. designers. insightful and provocative talks by R eprinted with permission influential figures from the automo- tive industry. The symposium will aim to ask a series of questions: • How would car design be different if we could start Damian Harty David Bailey Peter White Vehicle dynamics Professor of Professor of again, freed from the current researcher, International Thermofluid legislation? Coventry University Business Strategy Dynamics, • How might cars look and how n Until recently a and Economics, Coventry can they car be made more vehicle dynamics Coventry University University specialist at n Expert in n Iinterests sustainable? renowned auto industry include low carbon • Will we in fact have personal motorsport globalisation emission vehicles cars or is there a different engineering and economic and thermal company Prodrive. restructuring. management. model? • How might legislation develop Plus in association with to match the new paradigm? John Jostins Professor of Sustainable Transport Design, Coventry University Dr Geoff Le Good Automotive aerodynamicist Symposium on the future of the car Nick Hull Course director – Transport Square One • 9am Design, Coventry University TO daY’S EVENTS Britain’s motor industry in change Pods point the Former Ford and Jaguar executive Sir Nick way to your Scheele (below) will deliver the Bugatti Lecture career in cars at 1.30pm in Square One. The theme of the lecture will be the changing face of the British Are you interested in working with motor industry, and its contribution over the years cars? The car careers event in The to car design and manufacturing. Hub show you how. From 11am Sir Nick ran Jaguar from 1990 to 1999, during we’ll have a panel which time the company introduced several key of motor industry new models. He went on to become chairman experts answer- of Ford of Europe and then President of Ford ing your careers Automotive Operations worldwide. He served related questions, as Chancellor of the University of Warwick, and and from 11.30am he has been President of Coventry Transport employers includ- Museum since 2006. ing Peugeot, Jaguar Land Rover Bugatti Lecture and Nissan will be Square One available to give you one-on-one 1.30pm advice at the yellow meeting pods (above right) on the Hub ground floor and first floor. Come along and find out how to start your car career. Careers event • The Hub • 11am Car questions answered Come to Square One in the afternoon for an hour of ques- tions, answers and debate with a panel of automotive figures, chaired by Steve Cropley of Autocar. Other panel mem- bers include Andrew Didlick from Peugeot UK, former Jaguar chief executive Sir Nick Take a motor city tour Scheele, ex-Prodrive engineer Find out more about the history of Coventry motor Damian Harty and industrial manufacturing by taking a minibus tour or walking tour, designer Richard Seymour. starting from the bus stop in Priory Street. Both are free, but please consider making a donation: profits Car question time will go to an automotive charity. Square One • 3pm Coventry car tours • Priory Street • from 11am Peugeot Peugeot’s new 208 hatchback makes its UK public debut at Coventry Car Day 2012. The new car is destined to be the company’s biggest-sell- ling model, and it will line up next to examples of previous Peugeot hatchbacks – the 207, 206 and 205. Peugeot’s diesel hybrid 508RXH and 3008Hybrid4 will also be on show, and a Peugeot iOn electric vehicle will be inside Square One forming the backdrop for the Peugeot- sponsored symposium. The cars are the stars With around 100 cars on show there’s something for everyone – many of them with Coventry connections. Andrew Noakes picks out some highlights. Ford Ford’s Evos concept car made its debut at the Frankfurt show late last year. The Evos signals the direc- tion of Ford design and introduces new technology that will be used in future production cars. With Evos, Ford is researching the use driving patterns and per- sonal data to make life easier. “The car gets to know you and can act as a personal assistant to handle some of the usual routines of a daily commute,” says Ford’s Paul Mascarenas. VEhiclE DISPLAY Mercedes-Benz Coventry University graduate Mark Fetherston designed the stunning Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. “It was such a special, and very personal project, and what was great was that the design stayed faithful to the original design sketch, which these days is unusual,” he says. The cars are the stars With around 100 cars on show there’s something for everyone – many of them with Coventry connections. Andrew Noakes picks out some highlights. Renault Renault’s extraordinary Twizy is a tiny, tandem-seat electric vehicle which went on sale in April. A full charge of the Twizy’s battery takes around 3.5 hours, costs just £1 and can provide a range of up to 60 miles.