Kia has inaugurated its Corporate Hedquartes and the Kia Design Center America (KDCA) which are part of the U.S. Corporate Campus, a facility located in Irvine, California, which required a capital investment of $130-million.

Jaguar Land Rover has announced the opening of its new Virtual Reality Centre at the Design and Engineering Centre in Gaydon - Warwickshire, UK. Among the highlights is the advanced Computer Aided Virtual Environment (CAVE) facility.

University of Milan has announced the 2008-2009 Master in Transportation & Automobile Design, organized in partnership with Fiat. It is open to students graduated in Architecture, Industrial Design or Engineering, and will start on October 2008.

An official document by Seat that illustrates the activities and the facilities of its Design Center, inaugurated in October 2007, and the Prototype Centre of Development, both located within the brand's Technical Center in Martorell.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Renault Technocentre, the brand's main center for automotive design and development with more than 11,000 employees. We report the official document and an image gallery from Renault's archive.

Bmw Central Building in Lepzig, designed by architect Zaha Hadid from London, has received a special award at Italian Premio Internazionale Dedalo Minosse architecture event.

Nissan has announced that it will produce an all-new compact car in its Sunderland plant in the UK, starting in 2010. A teaser sketch of a sporty crossover has been released.

Mercedes-Benz is moving its Southern Californian advanced design studio from Irvine to Carlsbad, in the recently acquired 35,000 square-feet facility used by Chrysler for its Pacifica Advanced Design Studios.

An official document by Mercedes-Benz on its Californian Advanced Design Studio in Irvine that illustrates the main activities, the design philosophy and explains the choice of Los Angeles as the ideal location for the studio.

Official information on the processes at Mercedes-Benz Design Studio in Irvine, California. The document includes comments by the designers with personal quotes and biography notes.