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 [...]
MAHINDRA XUV300, FLAMBOYANT PERSONALITY
The success of its first unibody SUV – XUV500 – convinced Mahindra, the Indian manufacturer that appeared on the international market some years ago, that the time had come for a compact SUV as [...]
HYUNDAI SONATA, EMOTIONAL VALUE
For the eighth series of the Sonata - the medium-large saloon that Hyundai has been offering for more than thirty years - the Korean company is now launching its new design philosophy, that “sensual [...]
PEUGEOT 208, STRONG PERSONALITY
For the new Peugeot 208, it is all about the proportions. The perfect balance of height, width, wheelbase, overhang, windshield rake, and glass to sheet metal. That was the bedrock on which Peugeot’s design [...]
CHANGAN SUPPLEMENT | GENERATIONAL TURNOVER AND BREAKTHROUGHS
SUPPLEMENT IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE ITALIAN TEXTS The world is changing at a pace that wasn’t even imaginable until a few years ago. The car [...]