Tag: conceptcarofthemonth

First Sight: Volkswagen Iroc concept

Launched at the Paris Motor Show in 2006, the Volkswagen Iroc concept was the precursor to the third generation Scirocco. Sam Livingstone was there for Car Design News

Concept Car of the Week: The GM Precept

An innovative concept that emerged from an equally progressive government program, the Precept still has much to teach us two decades later

Concept Car of the Month: Gran Turismo Red Bull X1 (2010-19)

The lines between virtual and real racing continue to blur; something a Formula 1 team managed to encapsulate with a different sort of concept car…

Concept Car of the Month: Lamborghini 400 GT Flying Star II (1965)

Remembering how the original Touring Superleggera went down in shooting-brake style

Interior Motives: Hyundai Concept 45

“It sheds the styling and technically flamboyant design [usually] shown, and provides a completely different interior experience”

Concept Car of the Month: Opel Experimental GT (1965)

Opel’s small, curvaceous concept dazzled the crowds at Frankfurt in 1965 and paved the way for the production GT

Concept Car of the Month: Opel GT2 (1975)

Opel’s crisp and geometric GT2 concept car was Jean-François Venet’s breakthrough project

CES 2020: Chrysler Airflow Vision concept

Despite the throwback name, this Chrysler showpiece could hint at their future design direction…

CES 2020: Toyota debuts a concept city

Mount Fuji is about to become the site of a futuristic mobility experience, thanks to Toyota’s Woven City concept

LA 2019: Hyundai Vision T Concept

Hyundai has introduced a sculptural plug-in Hybrid SUV concept called the Vision T

Design Analysis: Hyundai 45 & H-Space concepts

Taking a closer look at Hyundai’s two-stage vision of the future

LA 2019: VW ID Space Vizzion concept

Cool, electric estate anyone? VW puts a long, sleek premium ID concept on the stand in LA

Concept of the Month: Renault Radiance (2004)

The Renault Radiance is one of design legend Patrick le Quément’s favourite, and more underrated designs

Frankfurt 2019: Hyundai unveils Concept 45

Hyundai unveiled the next iteration of its electrification journey with the Pony-inspired 45 Concept at Frankfurt 2019

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

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

Citroën’s Ami One urban mobility concept: small yet significant

The French firm’s centenary city car puts them squarely into the wider mobility landscape

Concept Car of the Week: Bertone Delfino and Zagato Zeta 6 (1983)

Two remarkable coupés, the Bertone Delfino and the Zagato Zeta 6, presented an alternate future for Alfa Romeo GT cars

CCotW: Lexus 2054 and Mag-Lev (2002)

The film is a cult classic. So are the cars

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

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

CES 2019: Hyundai Elevate concept UMV can stand up and walk

Hyundai’s ‘CRADLE’ division for technological research has unveiled an Ultimate Mobility Vehicle (UMV) which can either drive like a car or walk like a quadruped

CCotW: Triumph TR250K (1967)

A Peter Brock classic – the TR7 that might have been

CCotW: Alfa Romeo Canguro (1964)

A Giugiaro classic – rejected, ruined, but reborn thanks to a new generation of admirers

CCotW: Mercedes Bionic (2005)

Aerodynamic innovation Inspired by a strange little fish

Concept Car of the week: Dome Zero (1978)

Launched at the Geneva Motor show in 1978, the Dome Zero designed by Minoru Hayashi was a Japanese concept car that echoed Italdesign or Bertone

Concept Truck of the Week: Ford Super Chief (2006)

The trend towards luxury has produced a number of interesting truck concepts over the years. One of the largest and most interesting was the Ford Super Chief concept of 2006, which was, despite appearances, more of a personal limousine than a pick-up truck

CCotW: Ford SYNus (2006)

The Ford SYNus is an armoured truck on the outside, rolling lounge on the inside

Concept Car of the month: Ford Libré (1998)

Was the Ford Libré the blue oval's answer to the Mazda Miata. Car Design News spoke to designer Joe Ponce to find out more

Concept Car of the Week: Mazda Shinari (2010)

The Mazda Shinari concept car marks the moment Nagare left and Kodo came

Concept Car of the Week: Nash Astra-Gnome (1956)

The Nash Astra-Gnome, a time and space commuter for the 21st Century, designed by Richard Arbib

CCotW: Mustang Mach II (1967)

The Ford Mustang Mach II was the mid-engined pony car that might have been

Concept Car of the Week: ItalDesign/Volkswagen Project Orbit (1986)

Following the success of the Golf, Italdesign proposed a radical duo – Machimoto and Orbit – to evolve Volkswagen’s small car concept

CCotW: Plymouth Barracuda (1973)

In search of the lost Plymouth Barracuda concept car, a victim of the ‘Butterfly Effect’

CCotW: Abarth/Bertone 1500 Biposto Coupé (1952)

Is this car the first of the famous B.A.T. concepts?

Peugeot’s Gilles Vidal on the e-Legend concept

A closer look at the e-Legend concept

Concept Car of the Week: Peugeot Proxima (1986)

Designed by Gérard Welter with an interior by Paul Bracq, the Peugeot Proxima concept delivered motorsport engineering in a science-fiction coupé

Concept Truck of the Week: Toyota A-BAT (2008)

The Toyota A-BAT was a ‘ute’ for the ’burbs – and beyond

Peugeot E-Legend Concept revealed

A retro throwback on the surface, an autonomous connected EV underneath

CCotW: Renault BeBop MPV & SUV (2003)

These MPV and SUV concepts are two takes on the same ingenious package, with lessons for the future

Mercedes-Benz Vision Urbanetic concept

Swappable bodies make autonomous, electric concept van an urban tool

Concept Ute of the Week: Isuzu Como F1 (1991)

The Isuzu Como F1 concept combined a car, a truck and a prophecy – with a whole load of horsepower to boot

Concept Car of the Week: Volkswagen W12 series (1997-2001)

A rare engine layout deserved a rare attention to aesthetics for these Volkswagen prototypes

Concept Car of the Week: Ford Splash & Pontiac Stinger (1989)

The end of the 1980s saw the launch of two concept cars for the endless summer – the Ford Splash and Pontiac Stinger. Car Design News takes a look at these overlooked projects

CCotW: Plymouth VIP (1965)

Don your trilby, pour a Martini – it’s time for a cool Mad Men-era Chrysler concept, the Plymouth VIP

CCotW: The AMT Piranhas (1966-68) – Part 2

The model car maker, having conquered TV, headed towards the track with the AMT Piranhas

CCotW: The AMT Piranhas (1966-68) – Part 1

A series of glamorous full-scale running concepts, not from a conventional OEM, but from a model car manufacturer

Concept Car of the Week: Citroën Xenia (1981)

Designed by the mysterious Trevor Fiore, the Citroën Xenia might be the first and only ‘Break Monocorps’?

Concept Car of the Week: Citroën Osée (2001)

The Osée show car from Citroën, launched at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show, saw Pininfarina trying to reinvent the French marque

CCotW: Mitsubishi HSR II (1989)

The Mitsubishi HSR II was a concept car from the 1980s that seemed ready for the 2020s

CCotW: GM CERV III (1990)

The GM CERV III concept was a mid-engined experimental prototype that may preview the future of the Corvette

Concept Car of the Week: Arthur Radebaugh & the Bohn concepts (1947-49)

In the late 1940s, artist and advertising man Arthur Radebaugh produced a series of futuristic artworks for automotive and aircraft parts manufacturer Bohn Metals based in Detroit. The results were stunning

CCotW: De Tomaso P70, part two

A troubled collaboration continues, including a foray into Europe

Design Development: Tata EVision Concept

In-depth details of how the UK-conceived concept car came to be – and lots of images

Concept Car of the Week: Mercury D-528 (1955)

The Mercury D-528 was the product of Ford’s Special Projects studio and foreshadowed the sedans of the 1960s. Car Design News looks at the backstory

CCotW: Mazda Furai (2008)

Born of the wind, perished in fire

CCotW: Bosley MkI & II (1952, 1966)

A home-brewed hot rod sparked by a drag race with Mom

Concept Car of the Week: Autobianchi Runabout (1969)

Marcello Gandini’s Autobianchi Runabout was a precursor to the Fiat X1/9

CCotW: Packard Predictor (1956)

An influential swansong for a storied American marque

Concept Cars of the Week: Italdesign’s 20th anniversary cars (1988)

Giugiaro celebrated 20 years of success like only he could, with a trio of radical concept cars: Aztec, Apsid and Asgard

CCotW: Ford Maya (1984-5)

An everyman’s supercar designed by Giugiaro for the Blue Oval

CCotW: Zeder Storm Z-250 (1954)

An American-inspired Bertone-built sports car which should have been a huge success. What went wrong..?

CCotW: Pontiac Farago CF 428 (1969)

The DeLorean before the DeLorean

CCotW: DAF Siluro (1968)

Celebrating the Golden Anniversary of a most unusual sports car concept

CCotW: Mercury XM Turnpike Cruiser (1956)

A brave but disastrous attempt to reinvent a staid brand

CCotW: Bertone Pandion (2010)

A highly dramatic return to Geneva for Bertone, mixing sci-fi and high-tech with hawks and helmets

Geneva 2018: Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo concept

On a new electric powertrain, the Mission E Cross Turismo previews a future crossover

CCotW: Dodge Daroo I and II (1968 & 1969)

The King of Kustoms sprinkles some magic hot rod dust on a sedate Dodge compact

CCotW: Bertone Birusa (2003)

A sleek BMW-based concept that foretold the future. Just not the right future…

Design development: GAC Enverge concept

A look into GAC’s trend-driven poster car which prefaces its planned entrance to the US market

Concept Car of the Week: Porsche 942 (1984) & H50 (1987)

Two concepts – Porsche 942 & H50 – that pointed the way to the Porsche Panamera

Concept Car of the Week: Bob Peak’s Ferraris (1965)

American illustrator Robert “Bob” Peak was more famous for movie posters until he met North American Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti. The pair embarked on a collaboration with compelling results

CCotW: Pontiac Club de Mer (1956)

Karl Smith digs back into the history of the astonishing Pontiac Club de Mer, inspired partly by dry-lake speedsters of the time

Concept Car of the Week: The Italdesign Aces (1973-’79)

A trio of often-overlooked concepts by Giugiaro – the Italdesign Aces

Concept Car of the Week: American Motor Corporation Concept 80 Cars (1977)

A brave, but ultimately doomed, attempt to save the American Motor Corporation

CCotW: Ford Megastar I and II (1977, ‘78)

Marrying the exotic wedge to the sensible sedan, with the help of divisive graphics

CCotW: Ferrari Bertone Rainbow (1976)

A wedge too far?

Concept Car of the Week: BMW GINA (2008)

The GINA Light Visionary Model extended themes first seen on the 2001 X-Coupé and the production BMW Z-4. Designed by Chris Bangle and his team in 2001, the car had been kept secret for over six years

CCotW: Monteverdi Hai (1970)

A sleek shark from Switzerland

Concept Cars of the Week: The ItalDesign ‘M’ Cars (1978-82)

Sleek, smooth and enormously influential concepts from Giugiaro including the Lancia Megagamma, the 1978 ItalDesign M8, Lancia Medusa and the Lamborghini Marco Polo, we trace the connections

Rinspeed Snap mobility concept unveiled

Separating the interior space from the automobile, both literally and philosophically

Concept Car of the Week: BMW X-Coupé (2001)

Chris Bangle’s now famous Flame Surfacing made its debut in the form of the BMW X-Coupé at the 2001 North American International Auto Show

LA 2017: Toyota FT-AC concept

Toyota’s on-trend SUV steals the limelight at the LA Auto Show

LA 2017: Chris Bangle’s Redspace project

Car Design News was at the launch of a startling Chinese government-backed urban micro-EV

CCotW: Auburn Cabin Speedster (1929)

A concept car that perished much too soon

CCotW: Cadillac Series 62 Ghia Coupés (1953)

Elegant twin concepts shrouded in mystery

CCotW: Chrysler Akino (2005)

Chrysler’s trip to the Autumn Field

Concept Car of the Week: Honda PUYO (2007)

Honda’s glowing, squishy pet for urban transport may yet find new relevance

Concept Car of the Week: GM Ecotec Lakester (2003)

A concept car with a racing heart

Concept Car of the Week: GMC Terradyne

The Terradyne was General Motors’ turn-of-the-millennium vision of the urbanised future of the truck

Concept Car of the Week: Holden Hurricane (1969)

Holden’s first concept car was one for the ages

Concept of the Week: Oldsmobile Profile (2000)

A compact SUV concept from Oldsmobile that looks strikingly contemporary

Concept Car of the Week: Renault Nepta (2006)

A land yacht for cruising the Corniche, the Renault Nepta is an open-top grand tourer with classic lines and proportions evoking classic open-topped cars like phaetons, or the classic 1960s Lincoln Continental convertible

Design Review: Borgward Isabella Concept

Concept Car of the Week: The Airomobile

A valiant attempt at an aeronautical, economical, people’s car

Frankfurt 2017: Honda Urban EV Concept

One of the clear favourites of IAA 2017, has been the Honda Urban EV Concept, a cute little electric city car which takes the rectilinear style of the 1970s and adds 21st-century softness

Concept Car(s) of the Week: The early Ford Fiesta concepts

Looking back on early concept versions of Ford’s flagship supermini

Concept Car of the Week: The Dale (1974)

Grifts, murder, a transgender con-artist and a micro car – the story of The Dale concept car proves life is stranger than fiction

Concept Car of the Week: Pontiac Firebird Type K (1978)

The culmination of decade-long programme to bring a shooting brake to production

Concept Car of the Week: Vauxhall SRV (1970)

A magnificent design emerges from a “temporary” assignment

Infiniti reveals vintage-inspired ‘Prototype 9’ concept

Nissan’s premium brand (est. 1989) imagines its own 1940s Grand Prix car, in a fit of ‘fauxstalgia’…

Concept Car(s) of the Week: The Corvette Mako Sharks

Wicked-looking concepts that predicted the future of Chevrolet’s iconic sports car

Concept Cars of the Week: Corvair Sports Cars

The humble Chevrolet compact inspired some surprising sports cars

Concept Car(s) of the Week: The Darrin Roadsters (part deux)

The second part of Dutch Darrin’s search for the ‘Holy Grail’ of sports cars

Concept Car(s) of the Week: The Darrin Roadsters

Dutchman Darrin’s search for the ‘Holy Grail’ of sports cars

Concept Car(s) of the Week: The Corvette Quartet (1954)

A fabulous foursome of Motorama showstoppers

Triumph TRX (1950)

The Standard Silver Bullet

Concept Car of the Week: Studebaker Sceptre

The swansong from South Bend

Concept Truck of the Week: Ford Ranger II

What Syd Mead Would Drive to the Beach

Maserati Medici I (1974) & II (1976)

In 1974, Giorgetto Giugiaro set about transforming the look of the Maserati Quattroporte as he had done previously with Ghibli, Bora, and Merak. Those cars were supercars, racing coupés for the street. Could the same be done for the sedan?

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lincoln Continental

The famous architect’s personal concept car

Concept Car of the Week: Renault Avantime (1999)

A look at Matra’s last car, an automotive portmanteau

Chrysler/Simca Shake and Suzuki Go (1970 & ’72)

Some Holiday Fun from Bertone and Marcello Gandini

Lamborghini Bravo (1974)

An overlooked Gandini classic may be one of his best designs ever

Pontiac Phantom (Madam X)

Bill Mitchell’s illustrious career ended with a gothic coupé

Cadillac Personal Luxury Car Concepts

The development of the ‘personal luxury car’ produced some remarkable concepts

Concept Car of the Week: Pininfarina Jacqueline (1961)

World-famous First Lady inspired this mid-Atlantic collaboration

Concept Car of the Week: Hillman Zimp [1964]

Ercole Spada Gives the Imp an Italian Makeover

Lamborghini Athon (1980)

The Bertone spider which helped Lamborghini fly again

Citroën C10: Ladybird from the Future

The Citroën C10 is often overlooked when reviewing the CV of André Lefébvre. A forward-looking family car, it projected Citroën into the future and established its advanced technology credentials.

Concept Car of the Week: Chrysler 70X (1969) and Cordoba Del Oro (1970)

Defining the “Fuselage” Aesthetic for a new decade at Chrysler

Ford Mustang RSX (1979)

The rally pony car that might have been

Concept Car of the Week: Citroën M35

Ami meets Wankel. Odd romance ensues

Chrysler Turbine (1963)

The Concept Cars that the public Got to Drive

Plymouth Voyager III (1990)

An attempt to create the ultimate family car(s) by Plymouth

GMC L’Universelle (1955)

Out-there styling but clever packaging in an ancestor of the MPV

Concept Car (OK, Truck) of the Week: Siemens Innotruck (2012)

Looking back to when Luigi Colani and Siemens invented the truck of the future: Innotruck

Concept Car of the Week: General Motors Bison (1964)

The Bison concept by General Motors explored a trucking application for gas-turbine technology

Concept Car of the Week: GM LeSabre (1951)

The car that defined auto design in the 1950s in America was the General Motors LeSabre of 1951. Conceived by the flamboyant GM design chief Harley Earl, it was meant to set out the programme for the cars of the new rocket age

Concept Car of the Week: Norman Timbs Special (1948)

Like a Hollywood take on a German race car, this sleek road-legal roadster was both out of place and time

Concept Car of the Week: Buick Centurion (1956)

The centrepiece of General Motors legendary Motorama shows, the Buick Centurion was the combined talent of Harley Earl and Charles ‘Chuck’ Jordan

Concept Car of the Week: Pininfarina Maserati Birdcage (2006)

Recreating a classic for a new era

Concept Car of the Week: Chrysler ecoVoyager (2008)

Not quite the future of the luxury car, but an interesting experimental monospace

Concept Car of the Week: Lincoln ‘C’ (2009)

Big American Luxury in a C-Segment Car

Concept Car of the Week: Cadillac N.A.R.T. (1970)

A racing team’s redesigned Eldorado, by Zagato

Concept Car of the Week: L’Oeuf Electrique (1942)

The mother of all bubble cars has something to say to us about the car of the future

Concept Car of the Week: The Kar-A-Sutra (1972)

Bizarre, hideous, yet enormously influential

Concept Car of the Week: Stout Scarab (1936)

William Bushnell Stout took inspiration from aviation to create the world’s first minivan the Stout Scarab. The Scarab recently acted as inspiration for the Hyundai Prophecy concept (2020)

Concept Car of the Week: Ford Indigo (1996)

Twenty years ago, Ford predicted an IndyCar in every garage

Rinspeed previews a 2017 concept car – complete with space to grow plants

Interesting Oasis concept will debut at January’s CES in Las Vegas

Concept Car of the Week: General Motors Firebird IV/Buick Century Cruiser (1964/1969)

General Motors' Firebird IV concept promised a future where cars drove themselves

Corvette Rondine (1963)

Tom Tjaarda’s design for the other 1963 Corvette

Concept Car of the Week Geneva special: Corvair Testudo (1963)

The Corvair Testudo is a fabulous mixture of slightly misplaced American ingenuity and bravely outrageous Italian style

Fiat Bertone Barchetta (2007)

Bertone’s 95th anniversary car that celebrated one of the Italian greats

Lincoln Quicksilver (1983)

A forgotten concept from an era of radical aerodynamic experiments

Concept Car of the Week: Colani Ferrari Testa D’oro (1989)

A record-breaking aerodynamic fantasy created by design’s ‘nutty professor’

Concept Car of the Week: Opel Trixx (2004)

A look back at GM’s attempt at a smarter Smart city car

Concept Car of the Week: Volvo YCC (2004)

The car designed by an all-female team that raised some important questions as well as eyebrows

Concept Car of the Week: Vauxhall Equus (1978)

Wayne Cherry’s favourite car: “the most uncompromised design I’ve ever worked on”

Concept Car of the Week: Ford Seattle-ite XXI (1962)

Ford’s vision for spaceage, nuclear-powered cross-country driving

Concept Car of the Week: Autobianchi A112 Giovani (1973)

A look back at the one-off concept Pininfarina designed for new drivers in 1973

Concept Car of the Week: Ford Aurora (1964)

Launched at the World’s Fair in 1964, the Aurora was Ford’s vision of the family hauler for the baby boomers

Concept Car Of The Week: Stola S81 ‘Stratos’ (2000)

What happens when the original creator attempts to revisit one of their past masterpieces?

Concept Car Of The Week: Corvette Nivola [Bertone] (1990)

A mid-engined Corvette concept with Italian Flair

Concept Car of the Week: Bertone Saab Novanta (2002)

Italian firm’s 90th birthday present to itself, via Sweden

Concept Car of the Week: New York Taxi (1976)

The seminal monovolume that spurred on Giugiaro’s most creative period

Concept Car of the Week: Nissan Chappo (2001)

The issue of the automobile in the megacity of tomorrow has been on automakers’ agenda for the last decade now. Plenty of questions are still being debated – What will power this car? Will it be autonomous? What will its architecture need to be? And what will an urban design language look like?

Concept Car of the Week: Daihatsu X-021 (1991)

Tiny rival to the Mazda MX-5 that was destined not to be

Concept Car of the Week: Oldsmobile Expression (1990)

The concept that aimed to revive the estate car with the help of a built-in Nintendo – the Oldsmobile Expression

New Car: BMW 2002 Hommage

This Villa d’Este concept celebrates 50 years since the original BMW 2002 was launched

Concept Car of the Week: Pininfarina X (1960)

The diamond layout, low drag family car that challenged the status quo

Concept Car of the Week: Porsche Boxster (1993)

Revisiting the concept that kickstarted Porsche’s road to recovery

Concept Car of the Week: BMW Mille Miglia Coupe (2006)

An object lesson in using the past as an impetus for creativity

Concept Car of the Week: Suzuki Mobile Terrace (2003)

The anti-car mobile room that continues to appeal

Concept Car of the Week: Dodge Super8 Hemi (2001)

Revisiting the concept that evoked the cars of pre-Interstate America

Concept Car of the Week: Lancia Dialogos (1998)

The Lancia Dialogos was a biomorphic, neo-classical vision of a next-millennium sedan

Concept Car of the Week: Jaguar Kensington (1990)

The Kensington was Giugiaro’s vision for a modern Jaguar that made production a decade later and half a world away

Concept Car of the Week: Chevrolet Aerovette (1976)

The mid-engined Corvette concept that swapped rotary for V8 power

Concept Car of the Week: Mitsubishi SE-RO (2003)

Mitsubishi’s noughties dieselpunk showcar used the 1950s to predict the future

Concept Car(s) of the Week: Ferrari 250 P5 (1968) & Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/2 Coupe Speciale (1969)

Car Design News revisits the Ferrari and Alfa Romeo showcars that shared far more than Italian heritage

Concept Car of the Week: Scion Hako (2008)

With news of the brand’s closure, Car Design News revisits Scion’s best concept car, the Hako

Concept Car of the Week: Citroën Eole (1986)

Introduced at the 1986 Geneva Motor Show, the Eole was a four-passenger luxury wagon based on the production CX. But while that car had its roots in the 1970s, the Eole was an exploration of where the genre might go in the next decade and beyond

Concept Car of the Week: Lancia Medusa (1980)

At the 1980 Turin auto show, Giugiaro again showed the world how the family car might progress over the next decade with the Lancia Medusa concept

Concept Car of the Week: Volkswagen Concept 1 (1994)

J Mays and Freeman Thomas resurrect the Beetle to help rebuild VW’s US reputation

Concept Car of the Week: Mazda Senku (2005)

Recalling the last time Mazda’s Tokyo show star came with added global appeal

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

Concept Car of the Week: Chrysler D’Elegance (1952)

The Chrysler concept that would become a Volkswagen

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

Concept Car of the Week: Lancia Megagamma (1978)

Visitors to the 1978 Turin Auto show expected the latest Giugiaro sports car concept. Instead, they were shocked to see a truncated version of Lancia’s Gamma fastback sedan. What was it? A little utility van? A stumpy estate wagon? With the Megagamma, the Italian maestro had in fact invented the MPV

Concept Car of the Week: Volkswagen NILS (2011)

Looking back at the Volkswagen NILS one of the many highlights Frankfurt Motor Show has given us over the years