Automotive events & sponsorship
Corus is involved in a number of key automotive sector events.
VIDEO CLIP Current and future car designers talk to Corus
At the recent Corus sponsored private view of the Royal College of Art’s Vehicle Design Department ‘Connections’ project, Joonas Vartola’s ‘Kota’ design concept was awarded Best Individual Design accolade.
Automotive World 'Innovation & Growth' conference
London
October 2007
Professor Jon King - Director of Corus automotive engineering group at Warwick University, was a guest speaker at the Automotive World ‘Innovation and Growth’ conference in London on the 30th October.
Corus features in car design TV Documentary
2007
From February, a series of programmes on the Dutch Commercial TV station RTL7 will be broadcast, following a high school student as she learns about steel and its use in the Dutch Prauto-type 001 car. Corus high strength and highly formable steels will be used in the production of this prototype, including Dual Phase steels and Tailor Rolled Blanks. The car will be presented at the AutoRAI (Dutch Car show) to be held from March 27 till April 9 2007.
VIDEO CLIP - industry experts talk to Corus
See what Tim Leverton, Group Engineering Director, JCB (the engineer behind JCB’s diesel land speed record attempt); Christopher Macgowan, Chief Executive, SMMT and Patrick le Quement, Director of Design, Renault, Edmund King, Executive Director of the RAC Foundation had to say about the 2006 show
Corus supports ‘Best Vehicle Design Award’ at ‘ICONS’ – The Coventry University Automotive MA Design Show
Coventry Transport Museum
30th November 2006
Dev O’Nion for the design concept “Apto Sapor” was awarded the ‘Best Vehicle Design’ accolade in the Corus sponsored private view of the Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show ‘ICONS’ held on Thursday 30 November 2006 at the Coventry Transport Museum.
Corus supports ‘Best Vehicle Design Award’ at Coventry University Automotive MA Design Show
Coventry Transport Museum
01-12-2005
Jean-Michel Raad for his design concept The Moov!! was awarded the ‘Best Vehicle Design’ accolade in the Corus sponsored ‘15’, a private view of the Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show held on Thursday 01 December 2005 at the Coventry Transport Museum.
Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show 2005
Coventry Transport Museum
1st December 2005
Corus is pleased to announce its continued support of the Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show for 2005. Coupled once again with the highly successful industry forum the events this year will take place on Thursday 01 December at the Coventry Transport Museum.
Exterior Motives Student Design Awards
Le Cab, Paris
24th September 2004
Corus continued to demonstrate its passion for automotive design and technical excellence by extending its student design awards commitment to include the Exterior 'Best near production exterior' category at the 2004 Paris show.
Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show 2004
Coventry Transport Museum
16th September 2004
Charles Drury was awarded the ‘Best Vehicle Design’ accolade in the Corus sponsored ‘Move’, the private view of the Coventry University MA Automotive Design Show 2004.
Corus steel – key to JCB DIESELMAX diesel land speed record attempt
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, US
2006
Those who have been following the progress of the intrepid JCB DIESELMAX team in Utah will know that during the week 22nd to the 25th August, the World Land Speed Record for a diesel-powered car was broken, not just once - but twice!.
VIDEO CLIP
See what Chris Macgowan (SMMT), Garel Rhys (Cardiff Business School), David Godber (Nissan), Gerry McGovern (Landrover) and Edmund King (RAC Foundation) had to say about the 2005 show.
EuroCarBody 2004
Bad Nauheim, Frankfurt, Germany
28th - 29th January 2004
EuroCarBody is Europe's largest Car Body Benchmarking Forum
