LAND ROVER DEFENDER, RESPECT FOR THE ORIGINS
It’s up to the market to decide whether the new Defender is, as Land Rover claims, “an icon reinvented and instantly recognisable” - that is, the new, natural heir of an all-purpose vehicle [...]
FORD MUSTANG MACH-E, MUSCLE SUV
There are cases where the best option is to backtrack and rethink a project from scratch. This is what happened to the Ford designers of the Mach-E, an electric SUV of dynamically attractive [...]
IVECO DAILY, A LOAD OF REFINEMENTS
While user friendliness and flexibility have always provided the crucial design framework of light commercial vehicles for urban use, in recent years the more strictly utilitarian motivations have given way to considerations of [...]
LIGHTYEAR ONE BY GRANSTUDIO, HOLISTIC VISION
How can a car bring ethics to everyday mobility and still combine, harmoniously, the needs of today's society with respect for nature? “Through an approach that takes into account user needs, packaging, style, aerodynamics [...]
VOLKSWAGEN ID.3, BACK TO THE FUTURE
“A clean break with the past, a total transformation”. The conversation with Klaus Bischoff, head of Volkswagen brand design, at the style centre in Wolfsburg, began with an explicit concept: the task of the [...]
IVECO S-WAY, IN PRAISE OF POWER
Turin. Again we’re discussing an entirely Italian concept of transport-linked style, not only one involving cars. Perhaps because of this, the ferment is palpable in the offices when those slides appear on which the [...]
CASE PROJECT TETRA, WORKING WITH STYLE
The Case Project Tetra concept was conceived about a year ago by Carl Gustav himself, the new president of Case Construction. Gustav wanted to see how far one could go in terms of the [...]
FORD PUMA, HIDDEN FUNCTIONALITY
From the first glance, the clean and artfully muscular lines wink at those who love the crossover transposition of that pleasant dynamism once reserved for the Coupé. “While we were drawing, the moodboards on [...]
KIA XCEED, SPORTY FLAVOUR
In the flashy explosion of interpretations that marks the crossover universe, by now the dominant type of car, it is always nice to encounter proposals that germinated within a less orthodox creative process. On [...]
PININFARINA KARMA GT, DREAMING OF CALIFORNIA
Reinterpreting a model that was created in another part of the world implies a not always easy blending of different cultures. With the Karma GT, created by Pininfarina on the basis of the Revero [...]
