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 [...]
SEAT LEÓN, SIMPLIFYING TO EVOLVE
For a number of years now, León has been not only Seat’s best-seller, but also the conceptual inspiration, in terms of design, for other models cooked up in the Martorell workshop. In its [...]
FORD BRONCO, DESIGNED FOR ADVENTURE
A three-pronged relaunch of a 1960s icon. The Ford Bronco is re-born in its sixth generation, 24 years after the end of the fifth, and is purposefully inspired by the first, 1966 model [...]
JAGUAR F-TYPE, BORN FROM TECHNOLOGY
The new Jaguar F-Type is, essentially, the child of technology. To make it even sportier, they’ve given it a bigger grille (“A beautiful mouth”, says Julian Thomson), but this touch, with a definite [...]
HYUNDAI PROPHECY, POSITIVE ATTITUDE
“You smile when you look at this car, you feel happy”. It’s understandable that such a concise seal of approval would come from Youngseong Kim - Sammy to his colleagues. He created the sketch [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | AUDI R8
AUDI R8, ELEGANT POWER Where do we start? With Walter de’ Silva’s definition as “a car that is neither arrogant nor vulgar, but which stands out for its elegance”? Or with the [...]