Ci vogliono lunghi anni per valutare e giudicare le concept car. Soltanto lo scorrere del tempo e l'osservazione dei prodotti commercializzati permette di misurare la loro portata. Chi aveva percepito l'importanza del prototipo "Argos" [...]
The eye scans the body lines. And the car seems to change under your gaze. The front recalls the powerful Group C berlinettas, while in three-quarter view you pick up definite hints of the speedster. [...]
The undoubted success of Italdesign over the past thirty years has come not just from the creative brilliance of its world-renowned master designer, Giorgetto Giugiaro, nor just from the technical competence of his less-visible yet [...]
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 [...]
The two-year Transportation Design course of the Escuela Superior de Diseño Industrial in Valencia (Spain), completed in January 1997 and directed by José L. Ferrer, has produced twelve new concept cars. Each project was developed, [...]
Transpose commonly used items from the dreariness of the quotidian into art. Thus a coffee pot enters the Victoria and Albert Museum of London. And a corkscrew goes on show at MOMA (the Museum [...]
The nice thing about cars is how they always manage to look in new directions, successfully shuffling off the driving forces of a given historic period, fashions, or the need to satisfy new [...]
"From pop bottle to automobile" is by no means a new theme for the Chrysler designers, who have already worked on two interpretations of it. The first was the Pronto, a compact of 'European' dimensions, [...]
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 [...]
The luxury car is another recurring theme in the explorations of Chrysler design, which has accustomed us to a new proposal each year as the Detroit show comes around: the 300, Atlantic, Thunderbolt and Pheaton, [...]