LEXUS LS+, L-FINESSE EVOLVES
Such a grille had never been seen before. The spindle grille, that huge hourglass that so unmistakably marks out Lexus models, is one of the widest in today's automotive panorama, but the one sported [...]
DALLARA STRADALE, DESIGNED BY GRANSTUDIO
The first model of Dallara Stradale was handed over to its owner on the day of his birthday. Giampaolo Dallara, a life as an Engineer, went out to drive the street-legal Dallara right from [...]
JAGUAR E-PACE, DISTRUPTIVE INNOVATION
Every style centre has its own secret stories, proposals for cars that the public will never see, and models that designers create on their own initiative and present to management as additional products not [...]
THE BEST CONCEPT CARS OF THE 2000S / ALFA ROMEO PANDION
IMMAGINATION AND GLAMOUR (Auto&Design n.181/2009) In an automotive world characterized by bland aesthetic cautiousness, there are still those capable of visions that go beyond the commonplace. With its Pandion, a futuristic [...]
THE BEST CONCEPT CARS OF THE 2000S / LAMBORGHINI EGOISTA
EXTREME AERONAUTICAL INSPIRATION (Auto&Design n.202) Kept secret until the last minute, like any good birthday surprise, and created to astonish, to get people talking and to draw attention, this is [...]
SEAT IBIZA, EMOTIONAL CONNECTION
Designing the fifth generation of a car like the Seat Ibiza, a model that has been a great success for over thirty years, was obviously a huge challenge as well as a great responsibility [...]
DESIGN HISTORY / ALFA ROMEO NUVOLA
ALFA ROMEO NUVOLA, NOSTALGICALLY ALFA (Auto&Design n.100) Development of the car took place in a very tight time span. Traditional form plans and axonometric projections were produced from sketches – but [...]
WALTER DE SILVA IS BACK TO CAR DESIGN WITH EDAG AND ARCFOX
Walter de Silva is designing cars again. After a break of a year and a half, the former head of design of the entire Volkswagen Group (a position he left in November 2015) has [...]
ITALDESIGN POP.UP, THE THIRD DIMENSION
The sky as the third dimension of urban mobility. This is not a provocation but one of the many visions of the future of the motor car that are cultivated at Italdesign. So here [...]
MITJA BORKERT – LAMBORGHINI, UNMISTAKABLE DNA
From one Geneva Motor Show to the next, 12 months lived intensely at the helm of the design department of one of the world's coolest supersport car brands. We meet Mitja Borkert on the [...]