All articles by Nick Hull – Page 5
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Design Development: Volvo C30
Although Volvo is best known for its large wagons and sedans, it has a periodic history of making sporty cars too. It made the P1800 coupe for ten years from 1961, which culminated in the pretty 1800ES shooting wagon, made for a brief two years from 1972-73. Two decades later ...
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Design Review: Mitsubishi i
At the rear, the 2003 'i' concept featured a bubble-like rear profile with a split rear window, not unlike an Audi A2. On the final car this has become simpler and more vertical. The doors on the production car have also been given a couple of subtle horizontal feature lines ...
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Design Review: Mitsubishi i
Mitsubishi Motor Corporation is one of those companies that is difficult to pigeonhole design-wise: it's a company with a very wide model range but little unity in design. There are several disparate centres of gravity in the Mitsubishi range, from totally orthodox sedans such as the Lancer, Carisma and Galant ...
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Design Review: Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept
The front face is typical of current trends in China. A slim band links the sharply-stepped ‘dropped' headlamps to create a broad monographic, with an underlying wide grille beneath the lamps that binds the whole face together - the IAT Crosswind II has a similar DRG, for instance.
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Design Review: Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept
One of the interesting aspects of attending motor shows is seeking out the lesser known - but equally fascinating - concepts from the suppliers and consultants to the major manufacturers. A recent example of this was the Yanfeng Visteon Q-e concept shown at Auto China 2010 in Beijing last month. ...
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Design Development: Ford 427 concept
Click for larger images'Scorsese-like' support material by the graphic design group at Irvine
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Design Development: Ford 427 concept
A key element of the design is the single line running from the headlamp, up the A-pillar, along the roof and down to the rear lamps which, according to Baker, "expresses the silhouette in an honest way". Likewise, the simple DLO (side window graphic) is deliberately understated and the graphical ...
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Design Development: Ford 427 concept
The 427 concept is a modern, all-American sedan inspired by the exuberance of the company's landmark sedans of the 1960s and was designed in Ford's Irvine, California studio by British designer Joe Baker. After graduating from Coventry University School of Art and Design in 1995, Baker spent time in Isuzu's ...
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Design Development: Bentley Continental Flying Spur
The new Continental Flying Spur shares many components with the VW Phaeton and Audi A8, including the basic W12 engine, air suspension and all-wheel-drive system. Although the wheelbase and tracks are virtually identical to an Audi A8 LWB, the engine is set further rearwards to allow a much-reduced front overhang ...
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Design Development: Bentley Continental Flying Spur
The original 1957 Bentley Continental Flying Spur was hailed as one of the most elegant and yet powerful saloons of the time and the new Continental Flying Spur continues that Bentley bloodline of sporting Grand Tourers. Similarly inspired by the most desirable coupe of its day, it aims to deliver ...
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Turin's Automotive Design Studios
"Turin is the Vatican City of car design" former Design Director Jason Castriota told us during our visit. "It all started here. If anybody were to make a list of the 100 most beautiful cars, then 75 percent of them would have been born here in some shape or form".
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Turin's Automotive Design Studios
Turin - the capital of car design. A bit of a cliché maybe, but few areas in the world retain such a concentration of design facilities. Detroit of course, the Paris region also, but in most other countries it's always been much more dispersed. In Italy however, it still continues ...
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Design Review: Bertone Jaguar B99 concept
The lamps are supported by strong blades of chrome underneath as a kind of powerful cat jawline and there are two piercing pinhole eyes in the blanked-off grille too.
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Design Review: Bertone Jaguar B99 concept
This is Bertone's 99th anniversary and, after last year's flamboyant Alfa Romeo Pandion, the firm was keen to show a more strategic concept this year as way of reminding the world of its breadth of capabilities.
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Design Review: GTbyCitroën concept
The design was modeled in ICEM and Alias during February-March 2008 and data files were sent between Polyphony and Citroën on a daily basis so that the virtual game GT could be developed simultaneously, in full detail. For Citroën there was no clay modeling at all: the hard model was ...
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Design Review: GTbyCitroën concept
The idea of a concept car that could feature in a film or virtual game is one that we see quite often from final year design students, but it's rare to find one that's an official project from a carmaker. Audi's RSQ from 'I, Robot' or the Lexus from ‘Minority ...
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Design Review: Toyota iQ
A number of interlinked innovations allow the interior to be as big as possible within the tiny footprint. Toyota has employed a center take-off steering rack and a differential that is mounted in front of the gearbox and crankshaft. This allowed the front wheels to be positioned 100mm further forward. ...
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Design Review: Toyota iQ
Small car design has typically fallen into several well-established directions: firstly, there's the ‘over-cute' look of many Japanese K-cars, then there's the ‘reinvented icon' approach typified by the Mini or Fiat 500. Next is the rounded 1-box ‘fun' approach adopted by the Smart ForTwo or Mitsubishi ‘i'. The new Toyota ...
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Geneva Motor Show 2004 Trends and Overview
Nissan is also targeting this crossover area of hatchback and SUV to replace the slow-selling Almera next time around and used the Qashqai concept to introduce their ideas at Geneva.
