Bertone Suagnà, Beyond Transformability
Build a segment B coupé-cabriolet with the roominess of a class C car, in spite of the presence of a folding hard roof. That was the challenge facing the Bertone designers in making the concept [...]
Inovo Lirica, modernity in design
“An Eighteenth Century villa furnished with ultramodern furniture and equipped with state of the art technology.” This comparison, borrowed from the architect Maurizio Ficcadenti - founder and chairman of Inovo Design in Turin - captures [...]
Volvo C30, Swedish compactness
The prototype of the Volvo C30 anticipates the production model of the same name that will make its public debut at the Mondial de l’Automobile in Paris this autumn. The head of external design Fedde [...]
Aston Martin Rapide, elegant and lovely
The word from Ulrich Bez, Chairman and CEO of Aston Martin, was clear: to produce the most beautiful four-door on the market. “Elegance and beauty”, explains Marek Reichman, the brand’s design chief, “were the two [...]
Peugeot 207, feline dynamism
The new Peugeot 207 comes to market with the difficult task of repeating the enormous success of the 206. Fabio Galvano has met Gerard Welter, Peugeot design chief, to hear about the vehicle’s strong points [...]
Alfa Romeo Brera, the reality of a dream
Penned by Giorgetto Giugiaro, as a concept car, appointed a production car by the management at Arese before being industrialised and built by Pininfarina, who also looked after the interior design, and everything conducted in [...]
Toyota Auris, Vibrant Clarity effect
Exactly forty years after the presentation of the first model, the new generation of the Toyota Corolla, unveiled first in Paris in the form of a gold-yellow liveried concept car and then at the Bologna [...]
Honda Civic, kimono effect
The soul may be Japanese but the styling - in certain aspects at least - is Italian. To create the new Honda Civic, Toshiyuki Okumoto, head of external design, spent many long months in Milan [...]
Shiro Nakamura, “Nissan genes in every model”
“In the United States we have to serve up hamburgers, but we serve them with a Japanese twist. So, they look exactly like hamburgers but maybe under the skin they will be lighter or they [...]
Ferrari GG50, celebratory styling cues
“After fifty years and some hundreds of cars, just one was missing”, says Giorgetto Giugiaro to explain the GG50, the Ferrari he presented at the Tokyo Show and with which he celebrates his half century [...]