Auto Design

by Enrico Leonardo Fagone.

“The automobile today is an individual means of transport within a complex system of collective transport. The relations within such a system can­not be ignored. The individual means of transport has to submit to the constraints imposed by the system. This implies a form of transport that fulfils certain fun­ctions: hence a functional vehicle. The designers of car bodies are clearly faced with new structures, new tasks: scienti­fic and technological evolution is a stimu­lus but at the same time a warning not to remain anchored to the positions of the past and present.” (Pio Manzù)

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At Pininfarina, in the late sixties there were quite a concentration of design talents that would become renowned world-wide in the following decades: Aldo Brovarone, Leonardo Fioravanti, Paolo Martin, Filippo Sapino, just to mention a few. Each of them delivered a number of masterpieces and a least a successful design for Ferrari.

It was an undeclared confrontation between Sapino and Martin that led to two outstanding Ferrari show cars: the 1969 Ferrari 512S Berlinetta Speciale and the 1970 Ferrari Modulo. Read the rest of this entry »

Following the launch of the latest itineration of the 3 series sedan, BMW is ready to deliver the “derivatives” coupé, cabrio and Touring that share the new design and a new version of the 2.0 litre four cylinder diesel engine in 85 kW tuning that reaches a record setting 4.1 litre for 100 kilometres fuel consumption rate. The achievement is celebrated with the label of “BMW 320d EfficientDynamics Edition”.

Design refinements cover the body work all around and mainly the front and rear lamps. With the 2010 model range, all engines of the 3 series meet with the BMW Euro 5 emission standards, with the 2.0 litre four cylinder engine, 105 kW engine of the 318i, now available also with the coupé and cabrio.

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