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Securing a Bond game was the ultimate wish fulfilment for the cinephiles at Danish studio and purveyor of many fine Hitman games, Io Interactive. And for 007 First Light art director Rasmus Poulsen, it came with a particularly exciting realisation: “ Wait, that must mean we’ll work with Aston Martin, right?” And work with Aston Martin…

Not to be outdone by the reborn Renault 8 Gordini, Alpine has come up with its own retrotastic ‘design concept’ for the Paris Motor Show that reimagines one of its old-school sports cars. And, yeah… it’s an absolute stunner. Welcome to the A310 Vision which, as you may have guessed, is a tribute to the…

We’ve been harping on for a while that the world needs an MPV revival. The bulky lux-vans – Mercedes V-Class and Lexus LM – are all very well, but we mean an actual car. And Renault agrees. Welcome to the E-Space concept. For a start it has a brilliant name, connoting not just the original…

Alfa Romeo’s new-car pipeline has been a bit threadbare over the past decade. But over the next three years more more launches are at last planned. The Giulia and Stelvio might be lovely cars, but their ages are into double figures now. Replacements were planned to launch two years ago as all electric. But as…

This is the Fiat Multiplay, a… play on the Italian company’s classic Multipla nameplate that rolls up three different cars into one fun little concept. So, for about the size of a Volvo XC40 or Nissan Leaf, you get an MPV (yay!), an SUV (nay!), and a pickup truck (wahey?) all contained within the bones…

This is the new Vauxhall STX. Clearly, it is not a production vehicle, but it is a preview of stuff that could eventually make its way onto production vehicles. So, welcome back to the exceedingly strange world of concept cars! As Top Gear’s Sam Philip noted a while back, it’s a weird car industry affectation…

Eighties, Nineties, Noughties… who knows which decade is currently most fashionable. What’s apparent is that the past is offering refuge from the unpleasant present, and if we’re residing in a post-post modern cultural pick’n’mix then we may as well go all-in on an Eighties Group B immersion. We each have our favourites but the Peugeot…

Peugeot is feeling funky. In fact, its new design language is feeling feline, so much so that it’s actually called ‘feline future’. Peugeot wants to be the left-field, extrovert French brand, without being self-consciously wacky. The RCZ Vision showcases the direction of travel. A crisply resolved coupe with echoes of its forebear – which ran…

Cometh the hour, cometh the car. The original 2CV arrived into a diminished post-war world. As Citroën notes, it was never intended to become an icon, but accepted that status because of what it made possible. It democratised transport and travel, a car that embodied joie de vivre and other notions that somehow sound better…

The Jaguar Type 01 is finally here. The Brit firm has reinvented itself for the 21st century, courting no small amount of controversy in the process. You can fully digest the facts, figures and pore over pictures of the finished product here, but what’s not in doubt is that it’s chasing a new, more affluent…