All ConceptCarOfTheMonth articles – Page 10
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Concept Car(s) of the Week: Ferrari 250 P5 (1968) & Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/2 Coupe Speciale (1969)
Revisiting the Ferrari and Alfa Romeo showcars that shared far more than Italian heritage
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Concept Car of the Week: Scion Hako (2008)
With news of the brand's closure, we revisit Scion's best concept car
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Concept Car of the Week: Citroën Eole (1986)
Revisiting the estate-car concept that was the first to be wholly developed by computer
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Concept Car of the Week: Lancia Medusa (1980)
When was the last time the humble family car paradigm was thoroughly questioned and progress made? Yes we’ve made huge strides in terms of refining and finessing details, but the overall concept hasn’t changed since Giorgetto Giugiaro defined the segment with his 1974 Volkswagen Golf.
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Concept Car of the Week: Volkswagen Concept 1 (1994)
J Mays and Freeman Thomas resurrect the Beetle to help rebuild VW’s US reputation
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Concept Car of the Week: Mazda Senku (2005)
Recalling the last time Mazda’s Tokyo show star came with added global appeal
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Concept Car of the Week: Le Corbusier’s Voiture Minimum (1936)
2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Le Corbusier, the famous Swiss-French architect who ranks among the great modern masters of the craft
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Concept Car of the Week: GM Futurliner (1939)
The 1938 Buick Y-Job is rightly famous for being the world’s first concept car. But while the Y-Job was being created by Harley Earl and the designers at GM’s newly-named Styling Division, the team was also working on a project much larger in scale: the Futurliner
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Concept Car of the Week: Chrysler D’Elegance (1952)
The Chrysler concept that would become a Volkswagen
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Probe V (1985)
The Prove V was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in 1985, and was arguably one of Ford’s most radical concept cars
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Concept Car of the Week: Lancia Megagamma (1978)
“You’ve designed a car for plumbers!” was one of the kinder things said about the blocky little five-door hatchback revealed at the Lancia stand at the 1978 Turin Auto Show.
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Concept Car of the Week: Volkswagen NILS (2011)
Looking back at one of the many highlights Frankfurt Motor Show has given us over the years
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Concept Car of the Week: Pininfarina Ethos 1 and 2 (1992, 1993)
Exterior designer Stephane Schwarz talks us through two of his early works at Pininfarina
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Zig and Zag (1990)
The Ford Zig and Zag concepts were shown at the 1990 Geneva motor show
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Concept Car of the Week: Citroën Activa I (1988)
A look back at the big Citroën built to show off some pretty high-tech hydropneumatics
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Concept Car of the Week: Mazda Nagare (2006)
A look back at the concept car that went with the flow
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Concept Car of the Week: Chrysler CCV (1997)
The lightweight, low cost concept that owed more than a little to the Citroën 2CV
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Concept Car of the Week: Maserati Boomerang (1972)
In 1972, Giorgetto Giugiaro created one of the most futuristic wedge-shaped concepts of all – the Maserati Boomerang
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Concept Car of the Week: Fiat VSS I.DE.A (1981)
The Institute of Development in Automotive Engineering, or I.DE.A for short, was founded in Turin in 1978 by the entrepreneur Franco Mantegazza and the architect Renzo Piano. The institute’s first project a commission by Fiat, who invested $3.25-million in exploring how the cars of the 1990s could be designed and built more efficiently.
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Concept Car of the Week: Rover Mini Spiritual and Spiritual Too (1997)
The alternative future of Mini, borne of a rejected proposal