DESIGN STORY

This is the story of a success with its roots in the past that fits well into the present and may well find a role in the future. Auto & Design n° 143 traces the [...]

In conversation with Fedde Talsma, the Chief Designer in charge of the Volvo S40, Wim Oude Weernink traces the story and examines the constituent elements of the project that culminated in this new Volvo model. [...]

This new Italian flagship that has won the heart of Italy's President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, just as the 1976 edition, designed by Giugiaro, caught the eye of the then President Sandro Pertini, is the best [...]

The story of a car assigned the hard task of taking the name and inheriting the role of a triumphant predecessor. Silvia Baruffaldi tells the whole complex story: from the initial Ecobasic concept to the [...]

The role of design in motorcycle engineering is often ignored, but offers plenty of food for thought, given bike fans' ever increasing interest in the form, as well as the functional qualities, of their chosen [...]

Profitability, fuel economy and reliability are what buyers look for in a truck. Which does not mean that having settled those fundamental points, truck users don't care what they look like. And that was precisely [...]

Two separate articles in this issue of A&D describe the technological innovations and the design features of a historic product, the Jaguar XJ. On sale since the spring, the seventh generation of this great British [...]

An unconventional design process for a car different from any other on the market. We trace the path of the Pluriel project with Donato Coco, the Chief Designer responsible for Citroën's Platform A. In October [...]

he new version of the BMW flagship model, the 5-Series, reiterates the styling guidelines promulgated by the brand's Director of Design, Chris Bangle. Auto & Design tells the story behind the new saloon by means [...]

A natural consequence, an inevitable development, almost an efflorescence of the Thesis flagship's imposing lines into a perfectly balanced miniature version with its own distinctive character. The new Ypsilon is still the Baby Lancia and [...]