Milan Furniture Show, transition deco
This was the last Furniture Show to be held in Milan. From next year it will move to Pero-Rho to the recently inaugurated building designed by Fuksas. Continuing a trend that emerged clearly last year, [...]
Fiat Croma, Hatchback Luxury
Following its launch at the Geneva Show and its market presentation, the Fiat badge can once again count on a big car, the new Croma. Auto & Design runs through how it all began and [...]
Shanghai, the Chinese dream
The Chinese car market is in constant ferment, albeit with phases alternating between euphoria and depression, and the Motor Shows that are held in the most heavily populated country in the world are increasingly strategic [...]
Flaminio Bertoni, humanising the car
For more than a quarter of a century, Auto & Design has been reporting on the topical aspects of car design, the people involved in design, their creations and products, their industrial and cultural intrigues. [...]
Evolution and revolution (and the sad status quo)
In an age in which it is not easy to identify elements of originality in cars or the automotive world in general, Robert Cumberford dedicates his "Opinion" to two of the brands which, in his [...]
GM Firebird III, the future of Harley Earl
Investigating news regarding the most topical automotive concepts, whether production or research, Auto & Design in this issue returns to the past to trace the story of the design of a concept car of yesteryear, [...]
Bentley GT & Flying Spur, emotionally elegant
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 [...]
Citroën-Peugeot-Toyota, three aces
Here we have three sisters that promise to burst onto the international stage together, each destined to win its own slice of fame. Four years from the announcement of cooperation between the PSA Peugeot Citroën [...]
Renault Zoé, originality inside
The little Zoé, on the Renault stand at Geneva is – and this is not often seen in a research prototype – one of those combinations of avant-garde showcar and concrete solutions that are so [...]
Pininfarina Birdcage 75th, sensual fluidity
“To celebrate our 75th anniversary our intention was to make a strong, clearly focused statement: to create a dream-evoking car that would recover a role that has always been a foundation stone of a company [...]