The silent sports car. That's how Dirk Van Braeckel, Bentley Motors head of design since 1999, defines the essence of the brand's cars. Applied to the most recent Continental GT and Flying Spur, this definition [...]
Murat Günak’s influence on Group design becomes more and more evident every time a new Volkswagen model appears. This charismatic designer, who came to Wolfsburg two years ago and today heads up the design function [...]
For many decades national railway companies benefited from their monopoly positions, but when European economies began the move toward free market conditions, privatisation of railways became the watchword to guarantee better and more transparent public [...]
La Sequel, concept car della General Motors presentata allo scorso Motor Show di Detroit, si basa su due precedenti tentativi della casa americana di mettere a punto un sistema di propulsione fuel-cell per applicazioni automobilistiche: [...]
Take a closer look, walk round it a couple of times and you're bound to notice the unmistakable hand of Chris Bangle. The look of the new 1-Series is indisputably BMW: for all those sharp [...]
Il packaging intelligente contraddistingue da anni la maggior parte dei concetti di design avanzato Opel. La Trixx che ha debuttato a Ginevra rappresenta quindi il successivo passo logico verso la creazione di un package interno [...]
The 2003 Tokyo Show and the design innovations on the Nissan stand both underlined the company's increasingly intensive search for a distinctively Japanese cultural basis for its automotive products under the aegis of Shiro Nakamura. [...]
In conversation with Fedde Talsma, the Chief Designer in charge of the Volvo S40, Wim Oude Weernink traces the story and examines the constituent elements of the project that culminated in this new Volvo model. [...]
The role of design in motorcycle engineering is often ignored, but offers plenty of food for thought, given bike fans' ever increasing interest in the form, as well as the functional qualities, of their chosen [...]
he new version of the BMW flagship model, the 5-Series, reiterates the styling guidelines promulgated by the brand's Director of Design, Chris Bangle. Auto & Design tells the story behind the new saloon by means [...]