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 [...]
For the automobile, provocation, if concrete and constructive, has an evolutionary effect. And it is in this light that the Intruder running prototype developed by Heuliez Torino should be seen and considered. A proposal [...]
At last year’s Detroit show, Claude Lobo - at the time responsible for Advanced Design and since November chief of Car Design, Ford of Europe - explained that a luxury car like the Lincoln [...]
"Come sistemare comodamente sei persone e relativo bagaglio in una vettura lunga non più di quattro metri?" La sfida è stata loro lanciata ai designer Fiat dall’ingegner Paolo Cantarella - all’epoca amministratore delegato di [...]
The monovolume story brings to mind the story of man as narrated by Darwin: man who had been ape, and every other animal, before becoming himself. Similarly, the monovolume a van before becoming Espace, and [...]
At the Paris Mondial de l’Automobile, among the various proposals to emerge from research or advanced design, the crowd could indulge in the close-up observation of two prototype models that reflect the new [...]
“I want to make this clear. To me, the Berline Bulle represents Citroën and it represents the future.” So said Arthur Blakeslee, head of the Centre Création Citroën (CCC), talking about the surprisingly simple [...]
Porsche concept cars are as rare as the Stuttgart firm introducing completely new models. So the Boxster which caused such a sensation at the 1993 Detroit Auto Show had to be more than simply [...]
Eta Beta, mini-monovolume ecologico con propulsione ibrida, è frutto del terzo progetto per un autoveicolo sviluppato dalla Pininfarina con il CNR (Consiglio Nazionale per le Ricerche), nell'ambito di una collaborazione ormai ventennale da cui sono [...]