All Influential concept cars articles – Page 3
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleGeneva 2018: Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo concept
On a new electric powertrain, the Mission E Cross Turismo previews a future crossover
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ArticleDesign Development: GAC Enverge concept
A look into GAC’s trend-driven poster car which prefaces their planned entrance to the US market
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: American Motor Corporation Concept 80 Cars (1977)
A brave, but ultimately doomed, attempt to save the brand
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleRinspeed Snap mobility concept unveiled
Separating the interior space from the automobile, both literally and philosophically
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleLA 2017: Chris Bangle’s Redspace project
At the launch of a startling Chinese government-backed urban micro-EV
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: GM Ecotec Lakester (2003)
Racing on California’s dry lakes dates back to before World War II, but the sport became a real phenomenon in the years after the war. Hot rods and speciality cars like streamliners would streak across the dry lake beds hoping to set records for speed in the forbidding desert landscape.
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: GMC Terradyne
The Terradyne was General Motors’ turn-of-the-millennium vision of the urbanised future of the truck
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Holden Hurricane (1969)
Tuesday, 4th March, 1969. A select group of journalists had been invited to Holden’s Technical Center at Fishermen’s Bend, Australia for a secret unveiling of Holden’s first-ever concept car. Among those assembled that day, there was great curiosity. After all, Holden – as a part of GM industrial empire – was only 21 years old (it was independent before World War II), and its technical centre was only founded in 1965. Holden was a producer of staid family transportation, so what could be so top secret?
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ArticleConcept of the Week: Oldsmobile Profile (2000)
A compact SUV concept that looks strikingly contemporary
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ArticleConcept 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
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ArticleDesign Review: Borgward Isabella Concept
From nowhere, the revived German brand gave us one of the stars of Frankfurt. We analyse the Isabella concept
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: The Airomobile
Even the most casual student of automotive history knows that aeroplanes and automobiles ‘grew up’ together, with much technology transfer between the two. Both designers and engineers, as well as various manufacturers, moved freely between the aeroplane and the automobile in the decades before the Second World War.
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ArticleFrankfurt 2017: Honda Urban EV Concept
Retro preview of a future EV turns on the 'kawaii' charm
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ArticleConcept Car(s) of the Week: The early Ford Fiesta concepts
This week (September 2017) is the 41st anniversary of the introduction of the Ford Fiesta. Now about to enter its seventh generation, Ford has sold over 16 million Fiestas worldwide since its introduction in 1976. Conceived as a competitor to the Fiat 127 and Renault 5, the Fiesta has managed to outlast all its competition for a generation now. But what is often overlooked is how robust a platform the Fiesta has been for interesting concept experiments.