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 [...]
Cambiare tutto affinché nulla cambi. Avere il coraggio di evolvere un design apprezzato e di successo, per andare oltre e continuare a essere un punto di riferimento per i concorrenti così come per i clienti. [...]
An analysis of the role of the concept car in the thinking of one American giant, General Motors, by Robert Cumberford who has reviewed the various research models presented by the US Group under the [...]
Svolta epocale alla Toyota. Dal 2003 il Design, nella sua fondamentale espressione, la creatività, assume la centralità della filosofia aziendale. Per un costruttore affermatosi ai vertici della produzione mondiale in poco più di cinquant’anni, e [...]
The E-Class, the core model of the Mercedes-Benz range and the synthesis of all it stands for is back on the road after a face-lift and Auto & Design tells the story of its development. [...]