Design
It's a BMW Honda?
The BMW X6 is a strange, ugly and useless mix of XWD and Coupe. I’m pretty sure David Linklater knows what they look like but maybe this just looked better on the page. From memory the sleek beast pic...
Design
Design
Italdesign @ 33
Automotive.com have a great article celebrating Italdesign’s 33 rd Anniversary. They feature a range of concept and production cars, both exotic and everyday. Italdesign excelled at both, two of which...
Design
Fiat Design, Thanks to Pulse...
While I have many CAD/BIM/Design RSS feeds in my reader it’s always good to find new ones. In this case I found Car Body Design.com via Franco’s “ Novedge Pulse ” aggregator. It has some brilliant...
Design
The demise of Bertone
In January it appeared Bertone might survive . Cardesignnews have an update and the news isn’t good: Trouble at Bertone - cardesignnews.com It has now emerged that Bertone will not be making an a...
Automobile
FutureCar shows great talent & technology, so what's wrong at General Motors?
I’ve just watched FutureCar which features many designers, and car companies, but is largely focused on General Motors. They showed some of the awesome technology used at GM to design, validate and vi...
Tata Nano, it doesn't need power steering or electric windows!
Tata seemed to pulled off a remarkable feat creating a small, efficient, relatively safe (certainly compared to a moped) and cheap ($2500) car - the Tata Nano . So why did New Zealand TV news seem...
Design
Bertone Sold, Bertone Saved?
I’ve long had a fondness for Bertone : the Italian Design Studio Coachbuilder. I’m not sure when I discovered who designed those brilliant cars from the 70’s like the Lamborghini Urraco , Lancia Strat...
Design
Ferrari fans Luigi and Guido...
Pixar Mattel have released my favourite CARS characters, Luigi and Guido, decked out in their Ferrari racing fan gear… eModelli - ModBlog: Pixar and Mattel Do It Again Just when you thought that...
Bravo Designs
This Bravo blog has some nice coverage of the design concepts Quelli che Bravo - www.quellichebravo.it (Italian) quellichebravo's photos - Flikr
The Mercedes with Ford style?
Seeing this photo on Autoblog reminded me… When I first saw the Mercedes CLS at the San Francisco Motorshow I couldn’t believe someone would copy the rear end of a Ford Falcon AU. That was one of t...
The Classic Fiat X1/9
This article is about one of my favourite cars. The tiny X1/9 was Bertone design at it’s best (seen here) before later versions were ruined by US spec bumpers. The X1/9 was often termed the baby Fe...
Morris Marina collectible, I'm driving a "rarity" - Who'd believe that?
I never thought I’d read the words “Morris Marina” and “collectible rarity” in the same sentence! The Morris Marina is on my “Cars I’ve Owned, Driven” list with the comment: “This is very possibly the worst car I've ever driven. The sort of product that made