“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 [...]
The Opinion column in this Issue no. 152 of Auto & Design, signed by Serge Bellu, is a reflection on the concept of beauty as applied to the situation in international car design today. Starting [...]
La Sequel, concept car della General Motors presentata allo scorso Motor Show di Detroit, si basa su due precedenti tentativi della casa americana di mettere a punto un sistema di propulsione fuel-cell per applicazioni automobilistiche: [...]
"An ideas accelerator that allows us to develop a unique and attractive design vocabulary without betraying the brand’s established image”. Those, briefly, are the words used by the Top Management of Renault Trucks to describe [...]
There are always radical choices to be made when you’re charged with creating the second generation of a well-designed car. Do you stay with the original formula or do you opt for totally different styling? [...]
E for Europe. That could have been enough, as a name for the first concept car to come out of Korean manufacturer Hyundai’s new European Design Center in Rüsselsheim, Germany. But its designers wanted to [...]
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 [...]