Prendendo spunto dalla recente presentazione della BMW Concept Coupé Mille Miglia, Robert Cumberford riflette sul ruolo delle concept car nell’attuale panorama del design automobilistico. La BMW è un prototipo vero, con una vera funzione [...]
After his annual visit to the Detroit Show, Robert Cumberford analyses the difficult situation of the United States auto industry, afflicted as it is by a profound crisis brought on by lack of sales and [...]
The Tokyo Motor Show 2005 reflected the growing tendency of Japanese manufacturers to be more concrete, less tempted by exercises of gratuitous extravagance. Auto & Design 156 analyses atmospheres, trends and novelties at this Show. [...]
Robert Cumberford's Opinion analyses emotion in design in generalist cars and in higher level models, giving as examples the names of Gérard Welter of Peugeot and Walter de' Silva, design chief first at Alfa Romeo, [...]
In an age in which it is not easy to identify elements of originality in cars or the automotive world in general, Robert Cumberford dedicates his "Opinion" to two of the brands which, in his [...]
A completely new building constructed to hold the entire PSA Peugeot-Citroen design operation, the ADN is as imposing in appearance as it is in its mandate and underlines the core role the French Group attributes [...]
A tempestuous and unpredictable surge of creativity marks the advent of a new wave of forty-year-old designers all ready to take on the world. Robert Cumberford analyses the current ferment among the motor manufacturers following [...]
"The way we build our cars is absolutely fundamental to the way they look". That statement by Chris Bangle, the BMW Director of Design, leads Robert Cumberford to think about modern manufacturing methods in the [...]
Why do so many car designers and manufacturers insist on revamping more or less successful models from the past, when they could be inventing something new? That is the question considered in Robert Cumberford's Opinion [...]
The Tokyo Motor Show always produces a tidal wave of extravagance and exaggeration, but this year's seems to suggest a change of mood that may have been around for some time. Some of the Tokyo [...]