One of Nuccio Bertone's great virtues was his courageous trail-blazing, his willingness to let his designers explore new possibilities in the attempt to stay a step ahead of the field. Even today, a Bertone-designed body [...]
The Ibiza has great symbolic value for Spain's Seat brand. The original model designed by Giorgietto Giugiaro in 1984 now reaches its third generation. It remains the cornerstone of the brand, and the standard bearer [...]
Una carrellata su Detroit e i prototipi esposti è il soggetto del reportage di Robert Cumberford in questo numero dedicato in gran parte al Salone statunitense. Non cronaca ma analisi degli umori del mercato e [...]
A cutting-edge coupé that evokes memories of the days when Bertone was the creator of such uncompromising models as the Stratos Zero. That's what the Turin coachbuilder's current President Lilli Bertone demanded from her Style [...]
The nostalgic would like to view the C3 as the heir to the legendary 2CV. Actually, the new Citroën owes its distinctive looks and personality to the courage of its in-house designer. It all started [...]
The Toyota Motor Corporation will never lead the field in standardised design but it has an unfailing gift for innovatively surprising ideas."This has been a century of unparalleled exploration in search of new life styles [...]
Negli ultimi dieci o vent'anni ogni salone dell’automobile di rilievo ha sviluppato un proprio carattere. Detroit presenta poche concept car, da cui però derivano spesso i modelli di serie. Francoforte è il trampolino di lancio [...]
Avviene spesso nel mondo del car design, dove i progetti di veicoli presentati oggi sono stati congelati anni prima, che gli errori commessi un tempo vengano attribuiti a persone che non vi hanno nulla a [...]
Gió Ponti and Alberto Rosselli invented it and retailers La Rinascente established the Compasso d'Oro in 1954. This year sees the 19th edition of this prestigious design award. The two volumes of the ADI Design [...]
Olivier Boulay, who has designed for both DaimlerChrysler and Subaru, had only been at Mitsubishi for six months, when he proudly posed at the Tokyo Motor Show with four totally new concept cars. These were [...]