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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 - [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]