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The Alfa Spider’s second, third and fourth lives.  Once the confusion over its name subsided (if indeed it ever fully did), Alfa Romeo’s two-seater settled into both its role at the more glamourous end of the 105 Series spectrum, and into its identity—now known simply as the Alfa Spider. In freshly bob-tailed form it entered …

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Feeling the heat: Christopher Butt takes the temperature of Europe’s car design studios. With the summer holiday period in full swing, most design studios the world over, ‘China Speed’ be damned, may be closed right now. But once they fully reopen for business, quite a few of them will need to deal with subjects other …

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A confluence of influences? Eóin’s recent pieces about the Alfa Romeo 105 Spider rightly point out that it is the successor to the Giulietta Spider that, for a confusing cross-over period, was also sold as the Giulia Spider. This is of course the case, yet was the Duetto design really Pininfarina’s reasoned successor to their …

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Coda, PS, codicil, etc. . . Design education is its own unique form of training the future generation of designers for a career. Transportation Design education is a subset of that particular endeavor, and it is an important element of every designer’s thought process and mindset. Critical thinking is just as important as the ability …

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Eight owners and counting. With its options severely limited, Willys-Overland was unable to make a fresh start by introducing a new passenger car to make hay in the postwar boom, which was what Ward Canaday really wanted. The only vehicle that Willys-Overland could realistically produce was a civilian version of the Jeep as used in …

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