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Dinamica's microfiber range showcases the latest color, design and material innovations

Dinamica Established 1997 Number of employees 50 (five designers) Global headquarters Gorizia, Italy Contact b.terraneo@dinamicamiko.it Website www.dinamicamiko.com "We are a young, dynamic company and have increased our automotive activities significantly over the last five years," says marketing manager Benedetta Terraneo. "We started off in the US, but now also collaborate with the biggest OEMs in Europe, Brazil, Asia and Australia, working with their designers to create new automotive applications for our Dinamica microfiber range." Each year, the company creates an automotive collection to showcase the latest color, design and material innovations. The 2013 collection – called ‘Essence' – launched in May, and focused on inspiring new possibilities for automotive interior trimming through the use of five natural elements.

Conquer summer with this custom 1977 Dodge Tradesman van

Vanning never died, man. While fair-weather vanners ditched their groovy Plymouth Voyagers for front-wheel drive imports, hard-core custom freaks have been keeping the fire burning all these years. While we're not ready to proclaim a full-on custom van renaissance, we can feel the revival coming: It's a subtle yet noticeable rocking emanating from certain corners of the American and Swedish car scenes.

New Aston Martin V12 Vantage S quicker than Jaguar F-Type V8 S

The new Aston Martin V12 Vantage S (pictured) is Aston’s quickest car At the end of last month, as expected, and following the ending of production of the V12 Vantage, the new Aston Martin V12 Vantage S arrived. Aston proclaimed the new V12 Vantage S as the quickest production car they’d ever built (with the exception of the £1 million One-77) but declined to tell us exactly how quick it was. But now AML have finished playing with their stopwatch and declared the V12 Vantage S will get to 62mph in 3.9 seconds (0-60mph in 3.7s), an improvement of 0.3 seconds on the V12 Vantage and giving the V12 Vantage S the edge over the car we think it should be compared to – the new Jaguar F-Type V8 S.