All ConceptCarOfTheMonth articles – Page 8
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ArticleConcept Car (OK, Truck) of the Week: Siemens Innotruck (2012)
Luigi Colani, Siemens and T.U. Munich showcase their vision of tomorrow’s truck
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: General Motors Bison (1964)
The Bison concept by General Motors explored a trucking application for gas-turbine technology
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Pininfarina Maserati Birdcage (2006)
In the late 1950s Maserati launched a series of lightweight racing cars to conquer the 24 hours of Le Mans as well as other famous races. Known as ‘Birdcages’, the cars were constructed of a latticework of chromium/molybdenum steel tubing and covered by light sheet metal.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Chrysler ecoVoyager (2008)
Not quite the future of the luxury car, but an interesting experimental monospace
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Cadillac N.A.R.T. (1970)
A racing team's redesigned Eldorado, by Zagato
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: The Kar-A-Sutra (1972)
In 1972 the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York held an exhibition: Italy: The New Domestic Landscape. A number of avant-garde Italian architects and designers were invited to submit work for what would become one of the seminal exhibitions of the decade, and included Mario Bellini’s Kar-A-Sutra
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Stout Scarab (1936)
Taking 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)
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Ford Indigo (1996)
Twenty years ago, Ford predicted an IndyCar in every garage
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ArticleRinspeed previews a 2017 concept car – complete with space to grow plants
Interesting Oasis concept will debut at January’s CES in Las Vegas
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: General Motors Firebird IV/Buick Century Cruiser (1964/1969)
The concept car that believed you only live twice
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ArticleCorvette Rondine (1963)
Ask any Corvette enthusiast the significance of the year 1963 and an excited smile will break across his or her face. That was the year of the introduction of the second generation Corvette, the C2, with its dramatic styling, shape, and controversial split rear window, all courtesy of Larry Shinoda and the GM Design team.
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ArticleFiat Bertone Barchetta (2007)
Bertone’s 95th anniversary car that celebrated one of the Italian greats
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ArticleLincoln Quicksilver (1983)
A forgotten concept from an era of radical aerodynamic experiments
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Colani Ferrari Testa D’oro (1989)
A record-breaking aerodynamic fantasy created by design’s ‘nutty professor’
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Opel Trixx (2004)
A look back at GM’s attempt at a smarter Smart city car