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Normally, show cars are spectacularly staged, in contrast to the VW ID. CROSS Concept is simply parked in an underground car park. And is washed. More precisely, by Andreas Mindt, Head of Design at Volkswagen. We spoke to him about stability in design and why calm is sometimes the most radical form of design. And we learnt that an underground car park can be a perfect hidden place.

We’re at the Mazda Europe Design Center north of Frankfurt am Main, washing a Mazda6e – together with Jo Stenuit, Design Director Europe. The talk turns to clarity in design, the luxury of simple choices – and the insight that eight colors are plenty for a car.

During our car wash conversation with Frank-Steffen Walliser, the Bentley CEO not only gave the Continental GT a good dusting. Talk also turned to tradition and modernity – and to the kind of thing you don’t talk about, but just deliver.