Un nome spicca – per innovazione, per ricchezza di proposte, anche per coraggio - nel panorama del design internazionale. E’ quello della Mazda, che sotto la guida di Laurens van den Acker, subentrato poco meno [...]
Judged to be among the finest novelties at the Paris Show, the Audi R8 is spectacular for the sheer simplicity of its lines and the balance of its volumes which reiterates the superiority of the [...]
The Alfa Romeo 8C prototype had shown the way three years ago at the Frankfurt Show; today that dream has become reality, albeit in a limited series. Five hundred units will be built and they [...]
Is this really “the pinnacle in a line of convertibles that stretches back to the very earliest days of the Bentley legend”? This haughty claim from the English marque at first sight seems to be [...]
It’s called APX, which stands for Aluminium Performance Crossover. But at Lotus, where the concept car was designed and prepared for the Geneva Show, they talk quietly about a “Jekyll and Hyde” car. With no [...]
A Sportwagon that is all new but whose every corner and line says Alfa Romeo. The aims of Giorgetto Giugiaro, who did the styling of the externals, and Wolfgang Egger, head of Alfa design, were [...]
La Aero-X presentata al salone di Ginevra 2006 è una concept car pura, vera vettura marciante progettata nel centro design Saab in Svezia con il supporto della casa madre General Motors negli Stati Uniti, per [...]
Roland Reitenbach and Andreas Zimolong, with two designs that were rather futuristic but which showed great potential, were the winners of a competition for young designers sponsored by Nissan. Through its London design centre (Nissan [...]
With the presentation of the 559 GTB Fiorano, Ferrari has added a new super sports car to its already sumptuous catalogue. The task of defining the lines around the 12 cylinder, 6 litre, 620 bhp [...]
A fish? The image Atsushiro Yamada proposes for the hybrid concept car Senku, presented by Mazda at the Tokyo Show, might look somewhat reductive. But then you discover that there is indeed a sense to [...]