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 [...]
Espace Sbarro – From knowing to knowing-how
What’s an Alfa Romeo? “A car that competes in the DTM!” replied the youthful students of the Espace Sbarro school at the start of their design and engineering course. Now that a year has passed [...]
Lancia Y – Styling cues of tradition
The Y theme was developed in accordance with a well-defined approach, inscribed in the very history of the Lancia marque. To explain the process is the author himself, Enrico Fumia, engineer and director of Lancia’s [...]
Alfa Romeo Nuvola – Nostalgically Alfa Romeo
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, the [...]
Italdesign Formula 4 – Freedom of choice
It is often said that automotive stylists ‘dress’ their creations, and that the bodywork is the car’s skin. Italdesign seems to have interpreted the idea quite literally with its Formula 4 concept car, exhibited in [...]