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Motor Matters Design with influences of nature Several years ago Mazda started applying the Japanese concept of "Nagare" to its car design. Nagare means "flow." Bringing flow to car design was a matter of analyzing how forces like wind and water move in nature. The designers looked at these natural flow lines and started to incorporate them into the surfaces, textures and proportions of concept cars.


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Motor Matters 2009 Nissan Maxima You can't look head-on at the 2009 Nissan Maxima and not be impressed by the high, audacious curve of its front fenders, a design element reminiscent of one of those classic pre-war motorcars. The profile view is more ordinary, but the wholly reengineered and restyled '09 Maxima is way easier on the eyes than the disjointed and tubby-tailed previous-generation model that became symbolic for how Nissan had lost its way with this once-iconic nameplate. The new Maxima is not the home run it was in the mid-1980s and early 1990s when it truly earned the title "4-door sports car," but that's as much a function of a vastly changed car market as it is any slight of the Maxima itself, which once again is a pretty serious sedan.