ALESSANDRO DAMBROSIO NEW MITSUBISHI EXECUTIVE DESIGN DIRECTOR
From October 2018, Alessandro Dambrosio will join Mitsubishi Motors as Executive Design Director. He will report directly to Tsunehiro Kunimoto, Corporate Vice President of Design Division and he will lead the three Mitsubishi Motors Advanced Design Studios, the two based in Japan, in Okazaki and Tokyo, and the one in Frankfurt, Germany. A Milan-born, 45-year old architect with an Industrial Design degree from Milan's Politecnico, Alessandro Dambrosio started his [...]
PORSCHE, PROJECT GOLD FIRST TEASER
Porsche Classic creates a vehicle that has never existed like this before. Porsche shows the first shots of the still top secret "Classic Project Gold". A classic body is the starting point for a [...]
VINFAST TO UNVEIL SEDAN AND SUV AT THE 2018 PARIS MOTOR SHOW
VinFast, a brand new Vietnamese car company, is developing its own range of world-class vehicles to be produced at an all-new manufacturing facility in northern Vietnam. Spearheading the company’s launch, a SUV and a [...]
MASERATI LEVANTE, ELEGANT SPORTINESS
Maserati has chosen the 25th Goodwood Festival of Speed for the World Premiere of the new Levante GTS. The quintessential V8 Maserati of SUVs is the sibling version of the top-of-the line Levante Trofeo, [...]
BREMBO CELEBRATES NISSAN AND ITALDESIGN WITH A SPECIAL CALIPER
At Goodwood, on the occasion of the presentation of the new Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign, Brembo has introduced for the first time a new red for its caliper, colour exclusively created for this car. [...]
MERCEDES-BENZ SENSUAL PURITY DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Auto&Design was in Sindelfingen to discover how the 'Sensual Purity' will evolve in the next years. 'Sensual Purity' is the design philosophy implemented by Mercedes-Benz in order to make each one of its brand, [...]
MINI “OPEN AIR” HOUSING IN LOS ANGELES FOR MINI LIVING
Last week, in conjunction with the annual LA Design Festival, MINI LIVING presented its third version of the concept of a minimal housing concept unit for urban nomads on the roof of the former [...]
OPEL, FOUR APPOINTMENTS IN THE BIRTH OF A CONCEPT
What does German identity mean? This is the crucial question around which the stylistic (and other) destinies of the Blitz revolve. Less than a year after its acquisition by PSA, the Rüsselsheim office [...]
PORSCHE DESIGN, THINKING AHEAD
Maybe there actually is something like hoping the end will come soon, “or at least that’s what I start to think on hearing the same thing for the third time at a trade fair [...]
Digital issue
N° 231
July/August 2018
Latest issue in digital format
Subscription
30% SALE
offer reserved for new subscribers for the purchasing of an annual print subscription (6 issues)
CHANGAN EADO XT, FIERCE PERSONALITY
Five years after the birth of the first series, a completely different Eado - "A milestone", Chen Zheng defines [...]
DS X E-TENSE, ASYMMETRICAL VISION
What is French luxury, now and in the future? This is the guiding mission of DS, PSA Group’s premium [...]
FERRARI 488 PISTA & 812 SUPERFAST, THE ALCHEMY OF PERFORMANCE
Red and violently beautiful. The 812 Superfast and 488 Pista supercars make their appearance, as magnificent as ever, within [...]
FORD FOCUS, THE HUMAN-CENTRIC REVOLUTION
Twenty years after. The Ford Focus has been renewed for the fourth time since 1998, when the first series [...]
