TORINO DESIGN, COMPETITIVE GROWTH
For everyone in Turin, the fascinating complex of buildings on the hills that have had a breath-taking view over the city since the 1920s is simply Villa Gualino. Strangely enough, Turin has almost [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | ALFA ROMEO PANDION
IMMAGINATION AND GLAMOUR (Auto&Design n.181/2009) In an automotive world characterized by bland aesthetic cautiousness, there are still those capable of visions that go beyond the commonplace. With its Pandion, a futuristic 2+2 coupé, [...]
NISSAN ARIYA CONCEPT, SILENT DYNAMISM
Creating the icon of Nissan Intelligent Mobility: this is how Giovanny Arroba, Senior Design Director of the Japanese manufacturer, summarises the mission that led him and his team to define the Ariya concept. [...]
DESIGN HISTORY | LAMBORGHINI EGOISTA
EXTREME AERONAUTICAL INSPIRATION (Auto&Design n.202) Kept secret until the last minute, like any good birthday surprise, and created to astonish, to get people talking and to draw attention, this is a car [...]
THE HUMAN FACTOR – A&D no. 241
If the news six months ago had been of a virus with the power to trigger an international economic crisis, the talk would all have been about a cyber attack on a global [...]
FORD MUSTANG MACH-E, MUSCLE SUV
There are cases where the best option is to backtrack and rethink a project from scratch. This is what happened to the Ford designers of the Mach-E, an electric SUV of dynamically attractive [...]
HYUNDAI 45, HERITAGE FOR TOMORROW
When Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the Hyundai Pony Coupé, presented by his Italdesign at the Turin Motor Show in 1974, he certainly could never have imagined that forty-five years on his styling research would be [...]
RANGE ROVER EVOQUE, OBJECT OF DESIRE
The Range Rover Evoque launched in 2010 wrote an important chapter in the story of the Land Rover. "Apart from its excellent market results, this was a vehicle that triggered a change in our [...]
AN EXHIBITION FOR MARCELLO GANDINI AT MAUTO
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KIA PROCEED, REINVENTING A BODY STYLE
Now in its third generation with original shooting brake architecture, the Proceed is something special for Kia Europe's design chief Gregory Guillaume and his team. "I arrived at Kia on 1 January 2005, when [...]