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Design school chief hails gentler cars.(News)(Jean-Rene Talopp)

Automotive News Europe,  October, 2004  by Saint-Seine, Sylviane de

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Byline: Sylviane de Saint-Seine

The Mercedes-Benz CLS coupe and Nissan Murano are among Jean-Rene Talopp's favorite production cars at the Paris auto show. His top concepts are the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione and Renault Fluence.

Talopp is the founder of the Strate College, a design school in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, from which a dozen auto stylists graduate each year. To him, those four cars embody strength and power without aggressiveness.

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