Mitsubishi Motors Corporation used its web site to invite entries to a design competition for a next-generation vehicle during the period 25 October 1997 through 27 February 1998. Open to all, with no restrictions on nationality or professional status, the competition attracted a large number of entries from designers in many countries having differing cultures and levels of motorization.

On 12 March, the entries were judged at the Tama Design Center (TDC), located in Tokyo, where Mitsubishi Motors carries out its advance design work. In the preliminary judging, Mitsubishi design staff chose 40 from a total of 220 entries to go through to the final. The Grand Prix selection panel comprised 10 judges, chosen both from within and from outside the company.

The International Design Competition is one of TDC's information and cultural activities. The event was announced on the TDC page of Mitsubishi Motors' web site, and the results will also be published there. The number of entries, the variety of occupations represented by entrants, and the wide-ranging themes covered by the designs made the competition an outstanding success. Mitsubishi Motors intends to make greater use of on-line networks to reflect customer needs more extensively in its new products.

1.Mitsubishi Motors' International Design Competition 98

Number of entries : 220

Number of countries represented : 20 (Japan, Australia, Korea, UK, USA, etc.)

Winning entries:

GRAND PRIX 1,000,000 Yen
Title	DOPPLER
Entered by	Domus Academy Research Center
From	Italy
Features	A vehicle capable of travelling between isolated areas in the rain forests and modern metropolises.

	FIRST PRIZE 200,000 Yen	HONORABLE MENTIONS 100,000 Yen
Title	meta Go	BASIC MODULARITY	AMUSE
Entered by	Accion Designe	Matthieu Massonneau	Shinichi Miyazaki
From	Finland	France (resident in U.K.)	Japan

2. Exhibition of entries

The Grand Prix Winner and many other entries will be on public display in the ground floor lobby of the Tama Design Center until 31 March, from 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

TAMA DESIGN CENTER
1-16-1 Karakida, Tama City, Tokyo
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Located 700 meters from Karakida Station on the Keio and Odakyu lines,
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