Design Variety
The Toyota Motor Corporation will never lead the field in standardised design but it has an unfailing gift for innovatively surprising ideas."This has been a century of unparalleled exploration in search of new life styles [...]
Tokyo 2001 – Più serio che faceto
Negli ultimi dieci o vent'anni ogni salone dell’automobile di rilievo ha sviluppato un proprio carattere. Detroit presenta poche concept car, da cui però derivano spesso i modelli di serie. Francoforte è il trampolino di lancio [...]
Honda – Back to the beginnings
"This year Honda has decided to go back to its roots", declares Nobuki Ebisawa, senior chief engineer at the Honda R&D Centre in Wako, Japan. "In 1964 we made our market debut with the S600, [...]
Nissan Design – Rebirth of an image
The creation and promotion of a powerful brand image was Step One in Nissan's programme for the relaunch and revival of its entire design operation. That programme goes hand-in-hand with the Nissan Revival Plan announced [...]
Nissan Design – Rebirth of an image
The creation and promotion of a powerful brand image was Step One in Nissan's programme for the relaunch and revival of its entire design operation. That programme goes hand-in-hand with the Nissan Revival Plan announced [...]
Renault Talisman – Simplified complexity
From the outside, it looks like a generously proportioned grand tourer, an assembly of broad geometrical surfaces. The real message of the Talisman, Renault's latest concept car, is to be sought elsewhere: in the cabin [...]
Renault Vel Satis – Culture of freedom
We went to meet Patrick Le Quément, Director of Design Industriel Renault, to find out how the Vel Satis, the company's turnaround model, came into being, and what its innovative matrix consists of. "The Renault [...]
Carcerano Triagmos – La berlina New-Tech
A provocatively shaped limousine is the Triagmos, a laboratory on wheels whose parentage is strictly mathematical. For Piero Carcerano, the Triagmos is less a product than the demonstration of a method. Seen at the Milan [...]
B99, Bertone relaunches the Britishness of Jaguar
After the futuristic Pandion presented in 2010, Bertone reveals another facet of its new face with the very realistic and almost conservative B99. We take a closer look. Before we begin, it is only fair [...]
Trial image
The Seat Formula, presented as a working prototype at the Geneva Show, is not simply a minimalist expression of the "barchetta" concept. Much more than that, it is a compendium of future Seat design trends. The [...]