All articles by Karl Smith – Page 8
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Concept Car of the Week: Linea Diamante (1953)
Arguably Italy’s greatest modernist architect, Gio Ponti also had a whirl at car design with the Linea Diamante
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Geneva 2019: Abarth’s 70th-anniversary exhibition
The storied racecar maker’s classics are on display at Geneva
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Geneva 2019: Honda e Prototype
Honda’s evolved EV spearheads a serious push for electrification
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Geneva 2019: Mercedes CLA Shooting Brake
A new generation of the A-class wago– er, Shooting Brake
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Concept Car of the Week: Buick ‘Y’ Job (1938)
Designed by the legendary Harley Earl, the Buick Y-Job was the first ever concept car. Car Design News delves into the back story of this landmark car
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Concept Car of the Week: Pontiac ‘Ghost Car’ (1939)
The transparent Pontiac Ghost Car was unveiled at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York as part of General Motors Futurama exhibit
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Palm Springs: Modernism, GM legends and the iconic Avanti
Palm Springs Modernism Week is a must for fans of mid-century modern – cars and their designers too
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Concept Car of the Week: Kia POP (2010)
A fun city car that may be more relevant now than at its introduction
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Mustang Milano (1970)
A Chicago star with European influences, that had an impact in Australia
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Concept Car of the Week: Mazda RX-01 (1995)
The Mazda RX-01 concept was smaller and lighter than the standard street version of the RX-7 and adopted a radically different aesthetic
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CES 2019: Hyundai Mobis gestures towards the future
Hyundai Mobis is the material and assemblies division of the Hyundai /Kia conglomerate. At CES 2019 Mobis presented a well-designed concept pod that displayed interesting ideas both inside and out
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CES 2019: Rinspeed microSNAP clicks into place
The Rinspeed microSNAP is the 25th concept car created by Frank Rinderknecht’s Swiss automotive company
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CES 2019: Bell reveals air taxi prototype
The current Bell Nexus prototype is a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) craft much like the V-22 Osprey or the forthcoming V-280 Valor. It made for an impressive presence on the stand, to say the least
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CES 2019: Visteon envisions the future cockpit
At CES 2019, Visteon showed its vision of the cockpit of the future
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CES 2019: Schaeffler Bio-Hybrid – the missing link?
Schaeffler has introduced a quadracycle, Bio-Hybrid, in near-production form
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Concept Car of the Week: Triumph XL90 (1967)
In 1976, British marque Triumph proposed a vision of the year 2000, the XL90, which foreshadowed the modern MPV
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CES 2019: Kia looks beyond autonomy to well-being
Kia launches an autonomous pod that centres on well-being at CES 2019