A Legendary Italian Design House Wants A Bigger Role With Detroit's Big Three Italddesign has helped automotive shape design since 1968. Now, the company hopes to find its footing in the US. Motor1 · May 19
Honda Visually Beefs Up The New Prelude Italdesign’s reimagined NSX is the most interesting Honda at the 2026 Tokyo Auto Salon, but the Japanese automaker itself has some juicy news to share as well. Through its global racing division, Honda Racing Corporation (HRC), it has given the new Prelude a racy makeover. Additionally, the Civic Type R… Motor1 · Jan 9
Italdesign Brings Back The NSX With Honda's Blessing It’s only been a month since Pininfarina gave the first-generation NSX a makeover, and now another fabled Italian design house is sprucing up the mid-engined supercar. This time, Italdesign has worked on the modern version manufactured between 2016 and 2022. Premiering today at the Tokyo Auto Salon in Japan, the… Motor1 · Jan 9
Audi Gives Up Control of Italdesign After Selling Majority Stake It’s the end of an era in the automotive corporate world. Audi has offloaded its majority stake in Italdesign to a tech company you’ve likely never heard of. California-based UST is taking control of the iconic design house, which had been part of the Volkswagen Group for well over a… Motor1 · Dec 11, 2025
20 Years Later, The Bugatti Veyron Is Cooler Than Ever Twenty years ago this month, Bugatti Veyron began production. That’s hard to believe in the same way that so many passages of time are hard to believe—"wow, I’m getting old," etc.—but also because the Veyron is still astonishing two decades later. Motor1 · Sep 29, 2025
Volkswagen Asked Its Italian Designers to Draw a Coupe You Can’t Buy The Volkswagen Group is on the verge of spicing up its electric lineup with the Porsche Boxster and Cayman EVs. Audi’s Concept C is also slated for a 2027 launch, but what about VW’s mainstream brand? Wolfsburg isn’t planning a dedicated sports car, yet it asked Italdesign to sketch one… Motor1 · Sep 10, 2025
This Wild Electric 'Truck' Has Huge In-Wheel Motors In-wheel electric motors have a huge advantage over conventional drive units: they free up space that can potentially be used for a larger battery, which can lead to more driving range. That said, the technology is still in its infancy and the motors themselves are quite bulky–so much so that… InsideEVs · Jan 20, 2025
CES 2025: the mobility edit. The wheeled and wonderful machines from this year’s show CES’s vehicular content keeps on increasing, with big names making big debuts to an eager tech-centric audience Wallpaper · Jan 13, 2025
Here's Your Chance to Own an Ultra-Rare Nissan GT-R50 Remember the Nissan GT-R50? First introduced as a concept in 2018, it went into production in late 2020, with a total of 19 units built. Based on the GT-R Nismo, the GT-R50 uses unique body panels by coach builder Italdesign, giving it the sense the car just hopped out of Gran… Motor1 · Nov 3, 2024
Italdesign’s 777-HP Concept Car Is Almost a Pickup Truck The rear roof comes off, exposing a small bed accessible via an electronic tailgate. Motor1 · Apr 29, 2024
Italdesign Climb-E Is Literally A Door-To-Door Mobility Machine At CES The fully autonomous capsule is designed for urban use as both a vehicle and a static living module at home. Motor1 · Jan 5, 2023
DeLorean Alpha2 Could Go Into Production Following Strong Demand Company boss told Top Gear a "very small run" of cars is probably going to happen. Motor1 · Sep 8, 2022
DeLorean Alpha5 Electric GT Takes Revived Brand To The Future The luxury sports EV features a 100+ kWh battery pack and "multiple electric motors;" the official public debut will take place on August 18 at Pebble Beach. InsideEVs · May 30, 2022
DeLorean Alpha5 Revealed As Electric Coupe With 300 Miles Of Range Italdesign gave it the largest gullwing doors we've ever seen. Motor1 · May 30, 2022
InsideEVs · Apr 14, 2022 Deus Vayanne Debuts With Goal Of Becoming World's Most Powerful EV If the startup's goal is achieved, the electric hypercar would be significantly more powerful than the Lotus Evija (1,970 hp) and Rimac Nevera (1,914 hp).
Motor1 · Apr 13, 2022 Deus Vayanne Electric Hypercar Debuts In New York, Promises 2,200 HP Williams Advanced Engineering and Italdesign are on-board, and deliveries are planned for 2025.
InsideEVs · Apr 5, 2022 DeLorean's Electric Vehicle Concept Teased, Will Debut August 18 Just like the original, which was styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro working for ItalDesign, the new, electric DeLorean is also the work of the Italian company.
Motor1 · Apr 1, 2022 Is This New DeLorean Teaser Image Posted On April 1 The Real Deal? We see taillights and window louvers, or we could just be drunk.
Motor1 · Mar 24, 2022 Deus Vayanne Electric Supercar Teased For New York Auto Show Debut Italdesign and Williams Advanced Engineering are contributing to the project.
Motor1 · Feb 28, 2022 New DeLorean Designed By Italdesign Will Debut In August It will be fully electric.
Motor1 · Feb 14, 2018 Italdesign's 20 Most Iconic Designs Since the late 1960s, the aptly named Italian design firm Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A has been putting its signature styling touches on everything from Lancias to Bugattis. Just a few years ago, the iconic shop celebrated its 50th anniversary with a handful of new designs. Now, in a twisted turn of fate, the company…