CONCEPT

 When Toyota showed its three refreshing concept studies at the last Frankfurt Motor Show, nobody outside Toyota realised how close at least one of them was to the eventual NBC production car. This is the [...]

 The luxury car is another recurring theme in the explorations of Chrysler design, which has accustomed us to a new proposal each year as the Detroit show comes around: the 300, Atlantic, Thunderbolt and Pheaton, [...]

 If form follows function, then it is particularly true of trains. Their role in our daily mobility scenario is rigid and rational and modern-day railway aficionados no longer indulge in the nostalgic romance of trains [...]

 How will the station wagon evolve in the future? Opel, the company at the top of the European sales charts for this type of car, asked itself the question and, to give a tangible response, [...]

 To appreciate the essence of an important project, start with the name: Pangea. Meaning the land mass that rose from the waters of the late Palaeozoic era and, according to the continental drift theory, later [...]

It is the first car of the 21st century. Not because of its futuristic looks. But because of the design - though one might well say ‘philosophical’ - choices that led to its creation.   [...]

After the Ka, Puma is a clear example of how the Ford 2000 strategy is being implemented. When Ford decided to gradually reduce the number of platforms world-wide from 32 to 16 and finally 11, [...]

 From the thought to the substance. From blank page to production line. For several months Bertone has extended the range of services it offers to car makers, introducing a new structure: the ‘Design Machine’. The [...]

 The third generation of the Renault Espace was unveiled at the last ‘Mondial de l’Automobile’, held in Paris in Octber 1996.    The first Renault Espace was presented in June 1984. It was not the [...]