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    Official: Volvo makes the XC60 disappear into art
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    For the last few years, Volvo has set up an art display in the Zurich, Switzerland central train station called the Volvo Art Session, allowing select artists – both established and up-and-coming – to create temporary exhibits with one of Volvo's products acting as the centerpiece. ...

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    Official: BMW brings burlesque, Warhol, M1 and 6 Series Gran Coupe to Paris Photo LA
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    BMW has worked with Paris Photo for ten years. This year, the photography exposition lands in Paramount Studios in Los Angeles for the first time, and BMW is not only coming with it, the Bavarians are bringing the most famous Art Car of all: the 1979 M1 painted by Andy Warhol. For those attending ...

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    Video: How to make art prints with your BMW M6
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    Matt Mullins has done everything from stunts in movies to driving with the United States secret service, but the BMW Performance Driving School chief instructor has never done this before. "This" in this case is creating postcards using a BMW M6 as the printing press. A pressurized ink system ...

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    Video: Tour BMW's Art Car collection with EVO
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    The last time we heard from EVO magazine's Henry Catchpole he was drifting a Caterham Supersports through the snow up the side of a French mountain. There's more to the Scotsman than mad antics, it seems. After studying philosophy and art history, the final hurdle to getting his degree was ...

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    Video: Acura's ILX Hybrid gets all ate up with LED lighting
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    Acura has paired its 2013 ILX with the band Metric on its U.S. tour. To keep people as intrigued outside the concert as they are inside, Acura turned the ILX into an LED art car with a 3D display where there should have been an interior. Creating the LED light show took 4,600 hours, that was for ...

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    Video: You can catch more flies with a Mercedes-Benz
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    The intersection of automobiles and art is always an interesting locale, and one french sculptor has spiced things up a bit with a Mercedes-Benz covered in flies. The premise sounds a bit shaky to be sure, but artist Natacha Mercier says the concept was inspired by something she witnessed back in ...

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    Official: Porsche plasters 2M faces on Cayman to celebrate Facebook milestone [UPDATE]
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    We all know what happens when Porsche and social media collide; the world gets another art car. As you may recall, the German sportscar manufacturer created a special version of its 911 GT3 R Hybrid when it crested one million fans on Facebook last February. Now, one year later, Porsche has ...

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    Official: Renault gets creative with Twingo art cars
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    Art cars are becoming de rigeur once again, but while most automakers getting in on the action contract painters of some sort or another to spruce up their products, Renault has gone in a slightly different direction for its latest project. To celebrate the arrival of its new Twingo hatchback, ...

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    Artist createst indelible Camaro graphics with Sharpie markers
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    Remember the Sharpie Lamborghini Gallardo from 2007? A Chevrolet Camaro has been given a similar treatment courtesy of Maryland-based professional pinstriper Chris Dunlop. Stepping away from his cans of paint and fine brushes, Dunlop has created two magnificently detailed Sharpie tapestries where ...

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    Frank Stella's BMW M1 art car finds a new home in the Hamptons
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    Art cars are growing in popularity, with a number of automakers and their subsidiaries getting on board the trend. But BMW is where it all started. The German automaker has been at it since 1975. A good blogger's dozen of them have been commissioned for BMW over the years, and every one of them ...

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    Where some see the hood of a Porsche 911 GT2, others see a canvas
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    The difference between an artist and any other person is not about skill or ability to wield whatever instruments are required to render their work, it's about how an artist perceives things around them. So while most of us may look at, say, the front hood of a Porsche and see a hood, an artist ...

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    Ford takes art to the street with Focus in Glasgow
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    Though several automakers have celebrated their centenary recently, most haven't been around that long. Ford has, though, and not only that, it's been in the UK for 100 years, too. The Blue Oval has set to staging a series of celebrations to mark the occasion, culminating in the Ford Centenary ...

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    Alfa celebrates economical new MiTo with Louise Dear art car
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    Make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen: the era of the Art Car has returned, and it's returned in a big way. Not only has BMW been showcasing its own extensive collection with a special online gallery, Force India has commissioned the first Formula One art car. Need more proof? Tesla had ...

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    BMW opens Art Car collection to the public with virtual gallery [w/video]
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    Nobody does Art Cars quite like BMW. Others try, from time to time, sure. But over the past 40 years, the Bavarian automaker has collaborated with world-renowned artists to create no fewer than 17 unique art cars, each a work of art in its own right. One of the things we love the most about ...

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    Force India does the art car thing with an F1 racer
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    Far and away, BMW has commissioned more Art Cars than any other manufacturer. But the German automaker doesn't have exclusive purview over the realm, and this one is quite different. This is the first art car based on an F1 racer. The Force India team commissioned renowned automotive artist ...

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    Report: BMW M1 art car by Frank Stella headed for the auction block
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    In a perfect world, maybe the world's top museums would have infinite space and infinite resources to acquire and display every significant piece of artistic creation they could get their hands on. But, as we are all at times painfully aware, this is an imperfect world. Which is why the ...

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    Video: Ferrari F430 Scuderia turned into rolling canvas by artist Laurence Gartel
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    Laurence Gartel Ferrari 430 Scuderia – Click above to watch video after the jump
    Laurence Gartel has been involved with digital media since the early '70s, beginning his artistic exploration of computers on analog machines long before anyone else. This guy has been at it so long he taught ...

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    Rinspeed BamBoo concept pops its top with artist Jamez Rizzi
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    Rinspeed BamBoo – Click above for high-res image gallery
    There's a lot of adjectives you could ascribe to Rinspeed's wild creations. After all, each one is as different from the one that came before as it is from any other car on the road or the show stand. So if we had to pick one, it ...

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    Fiat 500 art cars created in Miami at Exhibitalia
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    Fiat 500 Art Basel art cars – click above for high-res image gallery
    We wouldn't have taken something like the Art Basel festival in Miami Beach as a typical showcase for automobiles, but after Tesla rolled out its art car and Maybach spearheaded its sculpture initiative there, Fiat became ...

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    Tesla takes a tip from BMW, creates psychedelic Roadster art car
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    Laurence Gartel's Tesla Roadster art car – Click above for high-res image gallery
    We love ourselves some art cars. Be it a Warhol-liveried BMW M1 or a crochet-covered Morris Minor, few things flip our collective switch quite like the melding of art and automobiles. Tesla has introduced its ...

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