Honda – Back to the beginnings
"This year Honda has decided to go back to its roots", declares Nobuki Ebisawa, senior chief engineer at the Honda R&D Centre in Wako, Japan. "In 1964 we made our market debut with the S600, [...]
Toyota Corolla – European identity
The Yaris is not the only Toyota to flaunt a distinctly European look. The new Corolla has very similar origins and demonstrates the same feeling, albeit in a rather more muted fashion. The reason is [...]
Citroën C6 Lignage – Reconquering nobility
Judging the maturity of the Citroën C6 Lignage concept car at the last Geneva Motor Show, one could have thought it was the fruit of a long and well-researched design process. But it had only [...]
Toyota Yaris – Ideazione integrata
La maggior parte dei fabbricanti giapponesi di automobili ci ha provato, ma solo la Toyota con la Yaris è riuscita a creare una vettura dal design tutto europeo. Quando la Nissan lanciò la Micra sei [...]
BMW 3-Series – Progression of a concept
US-born Chris Bangle (42) has been head of design at BMW for six years now, as everyone, whether BMW insider or not, knows. He is renowned for his strong views and loves to promote the [...]
Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph – The heritage of the past
Rolls-Royce won't be winning many awards for the avant-garde content of its brand-new Silver Seraph design. But the car's classic and fluid lines may claim to make more of a breakthrough for R-R than the [...]
Toyota Funcars – More that fun
When Toyota showed its three refreshing concept studies at the last Frankfurt Motor Show, nobody outside Toyota realised how close at least one of them was to the eventual NBC production car. This is the [...]
MCC Smart – Genesi storica di una microcar
Chi conosce la storia dell'automobile della Germania postbellica non si stupisce che il padre carismatico della Micro Car Company Smart sia Johann Tomforde, che era bambino nel periodo della ricostruzione del paese, generalmente conosciuto come 'wirtschaftswunder', [...]
Ford Puma – Design agility
After the Ka, Puma is a clear example of how the Ford 2000 strategy is being implemented. When Ford decided to gradually reduce the number of platforms world-wide from 32 to 16 and finally 11, [...]
Porsche Boxster – From the dream to the reality
Porsche concept cars are as rare as the Stuttgart firm introducing completely new models. So the Boxster which caused such a sensation at the 1993 Detroit Auto Show had to be more than simply [...]