Two very different concept cars that both hint at the future of the brand’s production models and cast light on its pure research operations, since both are excluded from immediate production plans. They dominated the [...]
Leonardo Fioravanti came to the Geneva Show with the Kite, a rear wheel drive coupé concept most notable for its LED lighting system and its “semi-transparent” roof. “ The Kite’s LED lighting system”, he explained, [...]
Piccola, tondeggiante, sbarazzina. La Trepiùno svelata a Ginevra ispira simpatia a prima vista e fa appello all’immaginario collettivo riproponendo le sembianze della minivettura italiana per eccellenza, la storica Fiat 500 del 1957. «La sfida era [...]
A Chrysler supercar with an aggressive line that makes it look as if it's hurtling along at 150 km/h even when it's standing still. The ME Four-Twelve introduced at the Detroit Show represents the American [...]
The 2003 Tokyo Show and the design innovations on the Nissan stand both underlined the company's increasingly intensive search for a distinctively Japanese cultural basis for its automotive products under the aegis of Shiro Nakamura. [...]
Out looks rather like a small dirigible with its unpainted brushed aluminium body. To those seeking new design trends, Mitsubishi offers the Se-ro concept, which appeared at the Tokyo Show beside the "i", previously seen [...]
Honda turned up at the Japanese industry's biennial "Home Game" with a hard-to-beat team of serious contenders: three concept cars ready to take on anything their national and international rivals could come up with. Their [...]
The new course of Volkswagen design summed up in a prototype created under the guidance of Peter Schreyer, who has been in charge of VW design since last year. As seen at the Frankfurt Show, [...]
The global structure of Nissan Design and the role of Shiro Nakamura, its director since Autumn 1999. Auto & Design 142 devotes a dossier to the Japanese brand's design centres around the world, at a [...]
José Diaz de la Vega, the Volvo Car Corporation's Director of Strategic Design, supplied Wim Oude Weernink with the key to the design history of the VCC, the concept car presented by the Swedish firm [...]