Five concept cars to attract attention, one pickup truck to have fun with and two sedans to leave the public definitively drooling. Such was the Chrysler programme at the 1997 Detroit International Auto Show, [...]
For the automobile, provocation, if concrete and constructive, has an evolutionary effect. And it is in this light that the Intruder running prototype developed by Heuliez Torino should be seen and considered. A proposal [...]
At last year’s Detroit show, Claude Lobo - at the time responsible for Advanced Design and since November chief of Car Design, Ford of Europe - explained that a luxury car like the Lincoln [...]
"Come sistemare comodamente sei persone e relativo bagaglio in una vettura lunga non più di quattro metri?" La sfida è stata loro lanciata ai designer Fiat dall’ingegner Paolo Cantarella - all’epoca amministratore delegato di [...]
The monovolume story brings to mind the story of man as narrated by Darwin: man who had been ape, and every other animal, before becoming himself. Similarly, the monovolume a van before becoming Espace, and [...]
At the Paris Mondial de l’Automobile, among the various proposals to emerge from research or advanced design, the crowd could indulge in the close-up observation of two prototype models that reflect the new [...]
“I want to make this clear. To me, the Berline Bulle represents Citroën and it represents the future.” So said Arthur Blakeslee, head of the Centre Création Citroën (CCC), talking about the surprisingly simple [...]
The air is hot, the landscape and atmosphere typical of the southern Californian coast. The car, however, is thoroughly unusual, though for us Europeans its looks conjure up an ‘all-American’ image. You cannot go [...]
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 [...]
Il motore è lì: sotto il lungo cofano anteriore, come tanto piaceva ad Enzo Ferrari. La linea è semplicemente affascinante nella sua sportività classica che definisce anche un’aerodinamica avanzatissima. Nell’abitacolo a due posti, la tradizione [...]