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 [...]
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 [...]