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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, 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. It has Lightning a top speed of 50mph. The Twizy costs £6690, plus The Lightning GT electric supecar a battery hire charge which starts at £45 per month. is said to hit 62mph from rest in Car enthusiasts might say that the advent of electric under five seconds, and it has a vehicles marks the end of fun motoring, but they’re range of up to 223 miles. The exte- wrong. The Twizy isn’t very fast, but thanks to its unas- rior design of the car was carried sisted brakes and steering, central driving position, low out by Coventry University design centre of gravity and the instant response an electric graduate Daniel Durrant. motor gives you, it’s a hoot to drive. Jaguar With two former Jaguar bosses in attendance today, we had to have a good line- up of Jaguars and Daimlers. All have Coventry connections – either built at Browns Lane, or designed at Whitley. We’ve got six-cylinder and V12 versions of the iconic E-type, several XJSs (including a one-off hatchback car) and the prototype Palmer Jaguar JP1. Jaguar Land Rover is supporting its involvement in the Coventry Car Day auto- motive careers event by bring- ing along a new XJ Supersport (right) and an XK coupé.

And there’s more... There’s far more to the car display than we have space to describe here. Ron Walker Triumph will be bringing one of his Triumph is one of the best-known Coventry makes. Our Coventry-built Swift cars (top Triumph line-up will include rarities like Phil Blake’s TR5 left); the Coventry-designed (above) and a pair of Stags (including Stephen Cox’s Ariel Atom (top right) will be car, right). Plus on show; and dozens of local two ex-works enthusiasts are bringing clas- Spitfires, one of sics (like Philip and Margaret which raced at Parkes’ Morgans, above right). Le Mans in the Browse around! 1960s. Vehicle display

Alvis Alvis made quality cars in a factory on Holyhead Road, Coventry until 1967. Four Alvis cars will be on show, including this 1952 TA21 owned by Bryan and Wendy Betts. Wendy’s father was an engineer at Alvis (where he worked alongside Alec Issigonis of later Mini fame) and this was his company car. It was sold to the US in the 1980s, but bought back in 1999.

Ferrari In 2005 three Coventry University design students won the work experience of a life-time – helping to design a Ferrari of the future. Ferrari fans also voted a Coventry student’s concept car as the best in the world in an online poll. The relationship between Ferrari and Coventry University has continued, with Ferrari North Europe enthusiastically sup- porting the University’s post- grad Automotive Journalism course. Ferrari’s current range is represented today by the glorious California. Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern is one of many high-profile graduates of Coventry University’s design school. Driven by design Coventry University’s design graduates can be found in car styling studios around the world, as James Taylor and Kyle Ecob explain. n 1973, what was then the the best possible environment to Lanchester Polytechnic become professionals. Lecturers launched a course in ‘Industrial and technicians with industry Design (Transportation).’ Today, experience are key in teaching the Lanchester Poly has become young hopefuls what is required ICoventry University, and its range to succeed in the very competi- of Automotive and Transport Design tive world of transport design. courses has developed a matchless Students studying the range reputation throughout the automo- of design courses are argu- tive world. ably some of the hardest- The University invests a lot of working on campus, putting money in equipment to keep up with in many hours of toil to learn industry standards, giving students the arcane arts of package COVENTRY COURSES D avid B risbourne

Above: Hard at work in the studio. Right: working designers regularly visit – this is ’s Steve Mattin. Below: sketch by Takumi Yamamoto, who went on to shape the outlandish GT by Citroën.

drawings, renderings, ergonomics, software packages and clay model- Freelander, and was one of the ling. Each year, final stage students first Coventry car design graduates. Driven by design work tirelessly in the university’s clay His successor as Land Rover design studios, computer suites and work- director, Gerry McGovern, honed his Coventry University’s design graduates can be found in car styling studios shops to create stunning quarter- skills in Coventry too. around the world, as James Taylor and Kyle Ecob explain. scale models and artwork for the Coventry graduates Adam Hatton annual degree show in June. and Mark Phillips were responsi- The degree show itself has ble for the Jaguar XF and XJ, under become a key part of the auto- the direction of Ian Callum (who is motive industry calendar. Many a visiting professor at Coventry of the key movers and shakers University). Modern Morgans are from the car world attend the drawn by Matthew Humphries, who show each year, including many secured his position at the famous of the course’s famous alumni. Worcestershire hand-crafted car firm Land Rovers have been while on work placement there dur- designed by Coventry ing his Coventry degree. alumni for more than three Two Coventry graduates now hold decades: Geoff Upex key positions at , based was behind the current just a few miles away in : , Discovery and Miles Nurnberger is chief exterior cardesignnews.com Hogg’s Bugatti Hogg’s 2010. Aerolithe, 2011; Douglas Shah’s Car for Japan, Shah’s from 2011; Saurabh 2011; from Seale’s Jowett 2020 Seale’s projects, clockwiseprojects, Richard above: from Coventry student

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Plus Ginetta’s new supercar What’s so special about the Lotus Elise? Britain’s finest put to the test Rolls-Royce’s record-breaking year Owning a Lambo at 20 years old Engineering Could this be the WRC’s final year? \\ What makes Morgan unique? the future Motoring Coventry University has writers a range of accredited engineering degrees start here dedicated to produc- Coventry University’s post- ing engineers who are grad Automotive Journalism capable of tackling the course is the only one of its wide-ranging challenges kind, and has an enviable facing the motor industry in the 21st century. track record: Autocar, Auto The Automotive Engineering course has strong links with Express, Auto Trader, Sky, motor industry employers including Jaguar Land Rover, What Car?, Motorsport News Lotus, Ricardo, Prodrive, Mira, Zytek, Tata Motors and and Pistonheads have all hired Shanghai Automotive, and former students are employed its graduates. by car, truck and bus manufacturers across the globe. The course staff includes The Motorsport Engineering degree has excellent links an award-winning motoring with employers in the performance engineering industry, writer and editor, and there is including Red Bull Racing, the Auto-Cycle Union, Lotus, enthusiastic support from vis- Penske and Triumph, which ensure that the course ben- iting professor Steve Cropley efits from the latest technical content. (editor-in-chief of Autocar) and State-of-the-art facilities include a wind tunnel, a full- the Guild of Motoring Writers. size shaker rig and engine test cells – as used in the Students produce their own automotive industry. car magazine, Automotive Students can get involved in the Formula Student and (above). It’s hard work, but an Shell Eco-marathon projects – on show today – which help incredible learning experience. to develop engineering and project-management skills. www.coventry.ac.uk/ media www.coventry.ac.uk/engineeringandcomputing Motown of the midlands Coventry’s car makers have all but disappeared, but the city still plays its part in the motor industry, as Jason Craig and Andrew Noakes explain. ew visitors to Coventry’s Cathedral Square and the University’s Priory Hall have any idea that in the 1920s this was the site Fof a huge multi-storey factory that built Triumph motorcycles. It’s just one example of Coventry’s hidden motoring history. Another of the University’s halls of residence, Singer Hall in Hillfields, is built on the site of the Singer fac- tory which built cars until 1956. The original 1890 office block still stands on Canterbury Road. In Gosford Street the University’s William Morris building made machine guns in the first world war, and was then taken over by Morris to make engines in the 1920s. A few yards away, the Standard the French parent of Peugeot, Motor Company had a factory on which now has its UK headquar- Much Park Street – the site of the ters nearby at Pinley House. Coventry court house today. On the Coventry’s skilled workforce, other side of the road, Lea-Francis which had graduated from watch made cars from 1937 to 1960. and clock making to sewing Daimler occupied a converted machines, must have attracted cotton mill in Sandy Lane, near the the early car makers. The 1886 canal basin, from 1896 to 1937. Starley Safety Bicycle, built in the Alvis made cars and military vehicles city, defined modern bikes and on the Holyhead Road, now the site many bicycle companies pro- of the Alvis retail park. Rover built gressed to motorcycles and cars. cars near what is now the Retail Growth in the city’s motor indus- Market until the 1930s, while Riley try was a key factor in the increase and SS (which later became Jaguar) of Coventry’s population – from were both based in Foleshill. 16,000 in 1801 to 220,000 by the William Hillman established his end of the second world war. car factory in Pinley in 1907. Hillman But Coventry’s industrial achieve- was eventually taken over by PSA, ment was to be its downfall in the CARS IN COVENTRY Motown of the midlands Coventry’s car makers have all but disappeared, but the city still plays its part in the motor industry, as Jason Craig and Andrew Noakes explain.

Right: Sir William Lyons poses at his home, Wappenbury Hall, with perhaps his greatest car, the Jaguar E-type.

Left: E-type roadsters in production in the 1960s.

Below (from top): Hillman Avenger typical of 1970s mass production; Triumph had some success in racing and rallying; Alvis hand-made fine sporting cars; Councillor Jack Harrison opens second world war. Car factories and soon after PSA closed its Ryton new Peugeot HQ turned their mass production exper- factory, which had built Hillman and in 2008. tise to munitions and aircraft, and Peugeot cars since 1946. Hitler’s Luftwaffe targeted the city. Coventry’s great motoring her- Three quarters of the factories itage is preserved today by the were destroyed by Nazi bombs. Coventry Transport Museum – and Post-war, Coventry’s car in a subtler way by the names of industry boomed again. Jaguar buildings and roads around the city. expanded into the Browns Lane But it’s not all history. The London factory in 1952, and Standard Taxi Company is still building the built a massive complex on a 120- ‘black cab’ on Holyhead Road. New acre site at Canley. Standard also Jaguars are designed at Whitley, supplied engines for the ‘Little Grey and the next generation of car Fergie’ tractor, built at Banner Lane, designers, engineers and motoring to the west of the city centre. writers learn their craft at Coventry Most of that manufacturing has University. And that’s something the now gone. Jaguar ended car pro- city of Coventry can continue to be duction at Browns Lane in 2005, proud of. Last Minute Ad 2_Layout 1 30/05/2012 16:21 Page 1

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