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Distinctive Road Cars & Ownership
The classic Saab 900 Turbo combines an unmistakable body with a particular engineering history. Its appeal becomes stronger when the badge is separated from the condition of the actual car.
Aircraft Architecture & Mission
The Piaggio P.180 Avanti looks unusual because its designers rearranged the aircraft. Three lifting surfaces and rear-facing propellers make the engineering visible.
Experimental Road Cars
The BMW Z1’s doors are the invitation. Its combination of structure, composite floor and separate plastic body panels is the deeper reason to look.
Folding Multihulls & Practical Engineering
Dragonfly’s Swing Wing system addresses an awkward gap between sailing and ownership. A wide trimaran does not always need to occupy the same width in harbour.
Compact Electric Mobility
The Microlino asks a useful question about short urban journeys. How much vehicle is enough when the job is to move one or two people and their things?
Touring Motorcycles & Mechanical Design
The 2018 Honda Gold Wing is interesting beyond its size. Its flat-six engine and double-wishbone front suspension show how touring comfort begins with the arrangement of the machine.
Bicycles & Connected Journeys
Mark Sanders’s triangular Strida began with a question about carrying and moving a folded bicycle. The answer changes the ride because it starts with what happens afterwards.
Modern Classics & Alternative Car Design
The Renault Avantime gave a coupé the space and light of a people carrier. Its appeal survives in a driving environment that the familiar categories still do not quite explain.
Sports Cars & Driver Participation
The 2026 Lotus Emira V6 SE keeps a manual gearbox at the centre of a modern sports car. Its case begins with participation, not a prediction that it will become collectible.
Urban Vehicles & Design Experiments
BMW’s C1 placed a roof and restraint system around a scooter rider. Its interest is an unusually concrete attempt to rethink urban transport, not proof that every unusual vehicle becomes valuable.
Modern Classics & Structural Design
The BMW Z8 looks back towards the 507, but its aluminium spaceframe makes the story more substantial than a borrowed silhouette.
Leaning Vehicles & Alternative Engineering
Yamaha’s Niken puts two leaning wheels at the front of a motorcycle. It is a serious alternative arrangement, not just a visual trick.
