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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
CLASSIC STYLE AND DYNAMISM Alfa Romeo Giulietta turns 10, a milestone that also marks the end of its production. Here is the design story published on Auto&Design no. 182. Presented at the [...]
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 heir of an all-purpose vehicle [...]
The success of its first unibody SUV – XUV500 – convinced Mahindra, the Indian manufacturer that appeared on the international market some years ago, that the time had come for a compact SUV as [...]
