“My challenge is to say nothing is impossible,” says Dacia’s head of design, David Durand. “I tell my designers, constraints mean creativity.” And when Dacia decided to enter the hyper-competitive (and profitable) C [...]
Alpine’s first new car in seven years, the A290 small EV, is not only a “reinvention” of the hot hatch, but it will be an entry point to the reinvention of the Renault [...]
Some designs are intentional from the beginning, while others come from intuition and inspiration. The new “retrofuturistic” Renault 5 small electric car is one of the latter. In late 2019, Renault designers working on [...]
When Renault designed the “retrofuturistic” Renault 5 small EV (complete design story on Auto&Design no.266), it paid as close attention to the user interface as it did to the hatchback’s proportions, stance and [...]
ONGOING INNOVATION “I believe every new car should be its own little revolution,” says Gilles Vidal, Renault’s chief designer. “The world is moving too fast today, and the new normal is to [...]
“I believe every new car should be its own little revolution,” says Gilles Vidal, Renault’s chief designer. “The world is moving too fast today, and the new normal is to have new things [...]
The Peugeot 208 is the Car of the Year 2020. The French citycar won first place in the prestigious international award with 281 points. On the podium two electric cars: second place for [...]
For the new Peugeot 208, it is all about the proportions. The perfect balance of height, width, wheelbase, overhang, windshield rake, and glass to sheet metal. That was the bedrock on which Peugeot’s design [...]
When is a neo-retro design not retro? When the styling serves as a gateway to future technologies, a philosophy that Peugeot designers followed when they created the E-Legend concept. Unveiled to the public at [...]
With the EZ-Ultimo, Renault’s designers have completed a trilogy of concept vehicles that explore the possibilities of shared and autonomous mobility. The EZ-Ultimo is a luxury vehicle that could be used for a single [...]
