Feb 27
Car Design, Car Styling, Concept cars, Electric Cars, Geneva Motor Show, German Cars, Interiors, Motor Shows, Roadsters, Show cars, Sports Cars, smart
By Giancarlo Perini. ©
You can’t be mistaken: the show car that Smart is presenting in Geneva with the name of “forspeed” proves that the company’s designers have taken a ride on the roller-coaster and had a lot of fun in creating an EV Roadster so full of curvatures, shapes and colour that in its full-size dimension attract teen-agers with a driving license and, in a smaller scale, would be the dream of their younger brothers and sister under ten. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 12
By Giancarlo Perini ©
With their Vision Efficient Dynamic unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show and to enter limited production at the end of 2013, BMW designers gave form to a series of innovation focusing on fuel efficiency and reduction of CO2 emissions through a very attractive, lighter and more compact, four-seater, supercar, with high performance hybrid technology. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 09
by Giancarlo Perini
Peugeot has been very quick at reconsidering the design direction it took few years ago and just three years after the launch of its first generation 308 is introducing a radically redesigned generation that will soon make its predecessor a mistake to forget overnight. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 27
Automotive Design, Car Design, Car Styling, Concept cars, Crossover, Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars, Hybrids, Italdesign Giugiaro, Italian Cars, Italian Coachbuilders, Lotus, Motor Shows, Show cars
More news have come form Italdesign-Giugiaro on their presence at the Geneva Motor Show, with some detail concerning the powertrain developed with Proton and their own Lotus Engineering think thank in the U.K. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 29
BERTONE B.A.T. 11 UNVEILED IN GENEVA
IN “FUORI SALONE” STYLE .
By Giancarlo Perini © Photo: Archivio Perini ©.
From Car Styling magazine, issue 184, May 2008.
The other event that took place in Geneva, but not under the roof of the Motor Show, was the unveiling of the Bertone B.A.T. 11 at the La Sip nightclub, usually a reserve for Lesbians & Gays, but retained that night by the organisers for their “high level social networking” guests, whatever this means. An attitude that might explains why the event has modest sponsorships and is likely to keep sponsors away for some time.
Let’s make clear here that the clone of the original Automotive Designers Night, promoted and organised by Car Styling and his partners since the 1987 Tokyo Motor Show, has nothing to do with this “AutoDesignNight”.
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