Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, the appeal of power
With the presentation of the 559 GTB Fiorano, Ferrari has added a new super sports car to its already sumptuous catalogue. The task of defining the lines around the 12 cylinder, 6 litre, 620 bhp [...]
Mazda Senku, clean-cut language
A fish? The image Atsushiro Yamada proposes for the hybrid concept car Senku, presented by Mazda at the Tokyo Show, might look somewhat reductive. But then you discover that there is indeed a sense to [...]
Mazda Sassou, man at the centre
A car built around the driver, in the most literal sense of the term. The Sassou research model presented by Mazda at the last Frankfurt Show is based on an approach in which form and [...]
Wahei Hirai, “Toyota’s J-factor”
Toyota is the second biggest car group in the world in terms of sales and its range of brand names adorns the grilles of the most spartan pick-ups as well as of range-topping saloons and [...]
Ford Iosis, kinetic transformation
“Sometimes people only buy a car for the brand, even when they don't like how it's designed. With our new design language, however, we want to create cars that attract customers who otherwise would never [...]
Volvo C70, a meeting of energies
“Buyers will get two cars for the price of one”, stated Chairman Hans-Olov Olsson confidently at the Frankfurt Show as he presented the new Volvo C70. The car could prove to be a trump card [...]
Maybach Exelero, rebirth of an icon
Take the free spirit of young future designers, add the evocative power of a trademark that has re-emerged from history to renew its splendour, mix with the savoir faire of designers responsible for some of [...]
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 [...]