Opel Signum – Opel Signum
How will the station wagon evolve in the future? Opel, the company at the top of the European sales charts for this type of car, asked itself the question and, to give a tangible response, [...]
Italdesign Scighera – Pragmatism and imagination
After six years - and plenty have appeared since the stunning and potent Nazca was presented on the same Geneva show stand - Italdesign is once more proposing a supercar prototype, Scighera, born from a [...]
Detroit 1997 – The rise and rise of Chrysler
Five concept cars to attract attention, one pickup truck to have fun with and two sedans to leave the public definitively drooling. Such was the Chrysler programme at the 1997 Detroit International Auto Show, [...]
FIAT MULTIPLA, CONCETTO MULTIPLO
"Come sistemare comodamente sei persone e relativo bagaglio in una vettura lunga non più di quattro metri?" La sfida è stata loro lanciata ai designer Fiat dall’ingegner Paolo Cantarella - all’epoca amministratore delegato di [...]
Plymouth Prowler – American heritage
The air is hot, the landscape and atmosphere typical of the southern Californian coast. The car, however, is thoroughly unusual, though for us Europeans its looks conjure up an ‘all-American’ image. You cannot go [...]
Ferrari 550 Maranello – Soft tensions
Development of the car took place in a very tight time span. Traditional form plans and axonometric projections were produced from sketches - but executed at the computer, work of German designer Wolfgang Hegger, [...]
Fiat Marea & Marea Weekend – Creative synergy
The Mareas were conceived at the heart of the same project that led to the birth of Bravo and Brava. It was envisaged that the new ‘tipo C’ family would comprise four versions of the [...]
Pininfarina Eta Beta – Le funzioni aggregate
Eta Beta, mini-monovolume ecologico con propulsione ibrida, è frutto del terzo progetto per un autoveicolo sviluppato dalla Pininfarina con il CNR (Consiglio Nazionale per le Ricerche), nell'ambito di una collaborazione ormai ventennale da cui sono [...]
Mercedes-Benz SLK – Reinterpretation of the roadster
"The show car is the embodiment of a designer’s dream. Then, so the dream comes true, you try and transfer as much as possible of the concept into the volume product." For Michael Mauer - [...]
Bertone Slalom – Incrocio di linee
Da sempre presente a Ginevra con un nuovo modello di ricerca, Bertone ha voluto dedicare lo studio in mostra quest'anno alla Opel, sua cliente da quattordici anni. E' la prima volta che i designer torinesi [...]