Bentley Azure, minimalist luxury
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 [...]
Lotus APX, split personality
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 [...]
Concept Coupé MM, BMW’s past and present
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 [...]
AudiTT, from geometry to sculpture
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 [...]
Alfa Romeo 159 SW, the sporting concept
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 [...]
Raymond Loewy, interpreting the American dream
“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 [...]
Fioravanti Skill, Functional diversities
“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 [...]
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 [...]