DESIGN STORY

Judged to be among the finest novelties at the Paris Show, the Audi R8 is spectacular for the sheer simplicity of its lines and the balance of its volumes which reiterates the superiority of the [...]

The Alfa Romeo 8C prototype had shown the way three years ago at the Frankfurt Show; today that dream has become reality, albeit in a limited series. Five hundred units will be built and they [...]

The dream of a collector and the mastery of a great coachbuilder have come together to write a new chapter in the history of Ferrari specials. The result is the P4/5, a one-off built by [...]

Is this really “the pinnacle in a line of convertibles that stretches back to the very earliest days of the Bentley legend”? This haughty claim from the English marque at first sight seems to be [...]

It’s called APX, which stands for Aluminium Performance Crossover. But at Lotus, where the concept car was designed and prepared for the Geneva Show, they talk quietly about a “Jekyll and Hyde” car. With no [...]

The retro impression is strong when you find yourself looking at the BMW Concept Coupé Mille Miglia 2006, a homage to the BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé of 1940. And yet the concept car [...]

Everything about this car is new, from its architecture to its performance and driveability, and yet it is still unmistakably a TT. This is the second generation of Audi’s small coupé which, when it was [...]

A Sportwagon that is all new but whose every corner and line says Alfa Romeo. The aims of Giorgetto Giugiaro, who did the styling of the externals, and Wolfgang Egger, head of Alfa design, were [...]

“Ugliness doesn’t sell!” This is the title of a book by Raymond Loewy and it is also the leitmotiv of the work of this designer who was as elegant in his work as in his [...]

“Being original and standing out from the crowd is our motto; in the present case, however, diversity is not so much stylistic as conceptual and functional. In other words, to make a contribution to [...]