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2021, the list of the most read posts on Automotive Space
11 Years of AUTOMOTIVE SPACE and also this year we publish the list of most read posts!
I chose to publish the 10 most read posts to understand what is more interesting for our readers and give a list of posts, to the readers, that the Community deem worthy of being read.
Automotive Space is on line since 11 years (with about 290 posts issued); please, contact us (redazione@automotivespace.eu) if you...
FIAT Electric cars (the ones from the old days)
It is said that Fiat falls behind in programs of models’ innovation, specially about electric and hybrid vehicles.
It is said that this is one of the reasons, which led the company – for a long time now known as FCA, the name Fiat only refers to the brand – to the fusion with the PSA group.
It’s possible. Fiat has faced tumultuous events since 2000 and the choices taken under...
Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
First of all Massimo Porta is an “old” friend: I met him during the army service – 45 year ago more or less – and we did many things together.
For this reason, I can talk about his book “Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)” without any fear of being biased.
Massimo Porta is neither a writer nor a designer and he has never worked in an automotive company.
In...
Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics and the Making of an Automobile Empire
Among the merits of this book there is the description of Enzo Ferrari during his first forty years, before he became the most acclaimed, successful (and published) car manufacturer in the world.
The Luca Dal Monte‘s description (enriched even thanks to the memories of Franco Gozzi, who was thirty years at the side of the Drake) is enlightening: Enzo Ferrari is a person with an intelligence out...
Remember those great Volkswagen ads?
In 1959 Volkswagen was at a turning point: in the previous year it sold 150,000 Beetles in the USA, dangerously approaching the maximum result obtainable through the word-of-mouth among customers. To avoid the stagnating sales the choice is only one: to develop an advertising campaign.
The DDB won the selection among 400 advertisers,until then the DDB had advertised department stores, (Israeli) airlines,...
2018, the list of the most read posts on Automotive Space
Also this year we like to publish the list of most read posts, from begin, of Automotive Space!
I chose to publish the 10 most read posts to understand what is more interesting for our readers and give a list of posts, to readers, that the Community deem worthy of being read.
Automotive Space is on line since 8 years (with about 230 posts issued) and sometimes publish a fewer number of posts because...
What do I have to expect if I choose a hybrid car? (Parallel/series)
The last post about cars with hybrid engine will focus on one of my projects, but never place on the market, when I worked at the Fiat planning department.
The only vehicle with a parallel/series hybrid propulsion, produced and tested on the road, was the Fiat Multipla Hybrid.
Produced in ten copies, and destined for the City of Naples in the context of the Atena Project (The Telematic Traffic Environment...
What do I have to expect if I choose a CNG car?
The OEM has commercialised dual-fuel models for about 20 years: petrol and methane or single-fuel that is only methane.
At the beginning the production of these cars didn’t directly take place from the same car manufacturer, but the transformation was entrusted to external fitters, who installed the system on the car with the original petrol version.
Basically they were solutions very similar...
FCA: the future after Marchionne
It has been no more than 8 months, even if it seems more, from when the Market value of FCA with Ferrari and CNH has reached the value of 73 billion dollars compared with the 63 billion of GM; which once was THE colossus of the automotive industry.
The capitalization of FCA was close to $ 29.5 billion; after the spin-off of Ferrari that alone had a value of about 18 billion.
With the death of Sergio...
The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este: Cars Elegance without time
Every year when you went to Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, you are sure that it’s the temple of cars elegance.
The event was established as a contest for new Cars in Villa d’Este in 1929. It’s possible to see here some beautiful cars in the world, splitted in several categories.
It is possible to admire old cars, but also Concepts Cars and prototypes.
Every year I am impressed about...
Vintage car, historic car and “old car”…what’s the difference?
For those who approach the historic automotive field not everything is easy to understand.
According to the common sense you may thing that a Fiat Uno thirty year-old will always be only an old car, a Lancia Aurelia B20 or a Jaguar E type (the one of Diabolik) are, instead, collector’s cars.
But it’s not so simple!
To face the complex world of the historic motoring it’s better to...
The list of the most read posts of 2016 on Automotive Space
Also this year we like to publish the list of most read posts of Automotive Space. You can see there are more differences from the last post on the most read posts in 2015.
For this reason we can confirm that Automotive Space doesn’t aim the last news.
Unfortunately from one year we are publishing a fewer number of post because we haven’t abroad correspondents…be patient; we are working...
50 years ago, the project which motorized Russia
It is never easy to assess the importance of an event that happened fifty years before, especially when it refers to automotive history.
But the collaboration agreement signed between Fiat and the Soviet Ministry of industry for the construction of a car plant in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (URSS), and which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, deserves to be remembered.
On...
Body shop mechanic and car manufacturers, bewitched by boats
It is nothing new that designers and coachbuilders of the automotive field have focused on boats project, in particular on large yachts.
Giugiaro has created partnerships with shipyards as Cranchi and Abbate and has signed a project about a new Baglietto long 48 metres, Antalia, in 2007.
Norman Foster (McLaren F1) has signed projects of some futuristic yachts that are been admired – or at least observed-...
The “Tipo” family: hatchback & estate spy-shots
The new latest double seeing which complete the “Tipo” family.
Hatchback & Estate variants on the streets around Turin for the latest tests before the media presentation next March 1st, 2016 at 2016 Geneva Motor show.
You can see that the chromed door handles aren’t more masked and they are protruding from the profile.
In this version we see the presence of a superior spoiler...
Ferrari peels out on Milan Stock Exchange. Perspectives for the share of Maranello
Ferrari is now quoted even on Milan Stock Exchange, after the debut on Wall Street in 2015. What will do the Italian Company, already leader in the racing world and now maybe on the stock market?
2016 is not started in the best ways for the financial market. Actually, even the Chicago PMI data weren’t a good omen, but by now we are used to markets that could overcome everything and almost able to...
FERRARI: it’s time to quotation. But who benefits?
With the coming of autumn, the financial world starts up again with all the operations which are set aside during the summer period, due to the low number of market players.
And so, after witnessing the success of the so-called IPO (Initial Public Offering) of Poste Italiane SpA here it emerges one that for many people is the real IPO of the year, even if it doesn’t take place in Milan Stock Market.
This...
Customer Satisfaction? Fix It Again Tony!
American clients have a clear fixed concept in their minds: “I-pay-so-I-demand”; to make even more clear this idea, in US customers are called consumers.
In the Old Continent we know that American consumers are very demanding in terms of quality of products and services: they have exported Customer Satisfaction worldwide.
Even in bars and fast-food – also with a bill of 5$ or...
Fiat 500X Camouflage, new version or test components?
New sighting, Fiat 500X mule camouflaged into the road of the turin ‘s province. New versions, new internal or only components test? #staytunedwithus
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Fiat Grande Punto Muletto – Restyling? No Fiat Aegea Hatchback
A few hours before the launch, this evening, of the Fiat 500 (2016) facelift, we encounter a Fiat Grande Punto* mule testing, maybe a next future restyling for the Grande Punto model?
The car is a little wider than the actual Grande Punto, but #staytuned with us
* This is the forklift Fiat Aegea Hatchback
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New Fiat 500 Cabrio Camouflage
Waiting to celebrate the restyling of the Fiat 500, on July 4, we have seen testing some Cabrio cars between the roads of Turin.
The face lift will concern the front and back of the bodywork, although you can see that the final result will not be much different from today’s.
The interior design, especially the infotainment, will be very similar to Fiat 500X.
with the technical...
NEW FIAT COMPACT SEDAN: first sighting
New Fiat Compact Sedan for the first time in the test on the roads of Turin. Designed by the FCA Style Centre and jointly with Tofas, production will take place at Fiat’s factory in Turkey Bursa.
Fiat Compact Sedan comes from the platform that was also used in development of Fiat 500L, 500X and Jeep Renegade.
On sale from November in more than 40 countries in EMEA Region.
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Pure electric vehicles and the heat/electric hybrid ones
More and more frequently we attend the launch of new pure and hybrid electric cars or heat/electric ones, so it comes naturally to wonder: what is the differences of the product they offer and for what types of use?
To better understand the products offered and their characteristics, I asked a friend and true expert on the subject for help, Ing. Roberto Barbiero, a career dedicated to car design with...
RAM PROMASTER CITY RUNS FOR TURIN
RAM PROMASTER CITY 2015 in the trial, on the streets of Turin (Italy) around the historic Mirafiori Plant.
RAM PROMASTER is the US version (rebadge) of Fiat Doblò model marketed in the EMEA region. This rebadge version the mostly know “Doblò” in its third generation, sees is higher than European and reinforced suspension components are fitted for the US streets.
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FIAT 500 STUDIO front/rear
The Fiat car that was a sales record in US, and that might just become a brand in itself given the two recent interpretations 500 L and 500 X.
In of April 2015 on the streets of Turin we see a Fiat 500 camouflage for studies of the new front-end/rear that may also potentially be used on the two L and X.
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Pirelli and Pininfarina: an unavoidable epilogue
Another company in the automotive sector of our Europe moved in the court of the giant Asian ChemChina.
Pirelli, the fifth tire manufacturer on the world, has been acquired by means of sovereign funds of nationalized China. An operation financially complex which opens the debate to a series of assessments on the health conditions of our badly off capitalism, especially if you consider that the company...
Fiat 600, the car is no more a dream
According to young people – those of the “2.0” generation, the automobile is an item taken for granted such as the television, dishwasher, internet, smartphone and social network.
The car, as modern object of desire, at least for the lucky ones, means to desire not a simply car but “that” one.
But for those who were young in 1955, when the Fiat 600 was presented, the automobile was more than...
FIAT 600 – Italian family gets in the car
We saw, in the first post, how Italy of the first ’50s was a developing country even if with several structural contradictions.
From one hand It was a society looking for new life styles - including mobility – thanks to a growing GDP and a large scale demand of modern products which led to new needs (refrigerator, televisions, washing machines), and on the other hand a Nation lacking...
Sixty years ago, Fiat 600
At the Geneva Motor Show Fiat presented the “600”, it was the 1955.
Let’s skip for now the technical details about the car and try to observe the world of the 1955, far sixty years from now and which seems a geologic era.
It was the year in which were born Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Kevin Costner, Ornella Muti, Michel Platini, Alain Prost, Susanna Camusso, Enrico Mentana, Pierferdinando Casini,...
Interview to Giorgetto Giugiaro
Date of the interview: October, 10 2014
Professional Profile: Giorgetto Giugiaro
When one thinks about Design and cars that have marked its evolution, one has to think about the Italian Design and the masterpieces that it has produced from the very beginning of the automobile industry.
And when one thinks at the Italian Design, it is a must to consider Giorgetto Giugiaro: designer, entrepreneur,...
