ALFA ROMEO JUNIOR, SCULPTURE IN MOTION
Nimble, dynamic and sporty. The Junior is the Alfa Romeo that wasn’t, a sharply featured, muscular compact that had long been missing from the Biscione range. “In July 2021 when I arrived at [...]
IVECO, A FUTURE ON THE ROAD
A giant employing more than 35,000 - with 29 R&D centres, 20 production sites, a design centre with premises in Turin and Lyon - entirely given over to realising commercial vehicles and buses [...]
DACIA DUSTER, OUTDOOR NATURE
“If it's fine the way it is, why change it?”. That’s the question Dacia designers hear time and again when talking to Duster customers about how to evolve a highly successful model into [...]
TOYOTA LAND CRUISER 250, SURVIVAL MACHINE
It is a tradition, that of Toyota off-road vehicles, which has lasted since 1951, when the iconic FJ40 appeared on the scene challenging Jeep and Land Rover and giving life to a long [...]
SUZUKI GSX-8S, THE SHAPE OF RIDING PLEASURE
The Suzuki GSX-8S is one of the Hamamatsu company’s most recent models and, above all, one of the most recent to have been designed from scratch. Both the Italian and the Japanese HQ’s [...]
LAMBORGHINI LANZADOR, A GT SPACESHIP
“A spaceship for the daily round”. Mitja Borkert, Lamborghini's design chief, doesn't mince his words when talking about the Lanzador, a concept car and the latest creation to come out of the Sant'Agata [...]
NEW HOLLAND CR11, A FUTURISTIC TAKE ON FARMING
Styling updates are frequent in the automotive world: the look is freshened up, certain finishes are changed, details are polished to keep up with the times. In agriculture, everything is different. Vehicles are [...]
ZEEKR 007, HIDDEN ENERGY
It is not James Bond's car, even if the name - 007 – may have misled some. It is much more: it is the first large sedan from Zeekr, the dynamic Gothenburg-based offshoot [...]
SAIC, TECNOLOGICAL ELEGANCE | INTERVIEW TO SHAO JINFENG
The spread of Chinese brands in Europe has gone hand in hand with the efforts of style centres to create innovative shapes and conquer new markets. Companies like the SAIC Group and its [...]
HYUNDAI SANTA FE, INSIDE OUT
"What makes a car special is its ability to adapt to society's needs even if radical changes have to be made to do so”. Hyundai and Genesis Global Design Centre’s Executive Vice President [...]