VOLKSWAGEN T7, MULTIPURPOSE ICON
The myth of Bulli (a fusion, in German, of the terms for bus and truck) has lasted for seventy years: since, that is, the Wolfsburg engineers welded a van body onto the floor [...]
JAGUAR, REIMAGINING DESIGN
The watchword is "luxury", to which the adjective "modern" is added. With this flag Jaguar faces a race towards the future, through an epochal revolution that has also affected the internal structure, attributing [...]
CUPRA BORN, ELECTRIC EMOTION
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DESIGN HISTORY | AUDI QUATTRO CONCEPT
AN OLD DREAM AWAKENING - A&D no. 186 Thirty years of Quattro. To celebrate the anniversary of that legend, presented at the Geneva Show in 1980 and renamed "Urquattro" by enthusiasts, Wolfgang [...]
GORDON MURRAY T.50, IN THE SPIRIT OF F1
Gordon Murray is one of the gods of Formula 1. A handful of world titles, first with Brabham and then McLaren, punctuated the European career of this South-African engineer, transplanted to England [...]
CAR OF THE YEAR 2021 FINALISTS | LAND ROVER DEFENDER
RESPECT FOR THE ORIGINS It’s up to the market to decide whether the new Defender is, as Land Rover claims, “an icon reinvented and instantly recognisable” - that is, the new, natural [...]
MINI VISION URBANAUT, REINVENTING INTERIOR SPACE
Imagine a Mini. It’ll be a nice memory, because the only features it shares with that of the future will be the position of the wheels, at the four corners, and its footprint, i.e., [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | BMW COUPÉ ZAGATO
HAUTE COUTÛRE (Auto&Design no.196) Adrian van Hooydonk, BMW's head of design, speaks of the "haute couture" of the car. Andrea Zagato, whose signature underlines the sportiness of the BMW Zagato Coupé presented [...]
DS 4, ATHLETIC AND EFFICIENT
Waiting for Godot? Well, not exactly: there are greater certainties while waiting for the DS 4, the new PSA group star. We’ll see it in the next few weeks and we’ll drive it [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | JAGUAR C-X75
A CAR FROM THE FUTURE (Auto&Design n.186/2011) It’s impossible to talk about the Jaguar C-X75 in terms of style only, as you usually would with a show car. And it is equally [...]