Has the time come for a new generation of truly minimalist cars like the Citroen Lacoste concept? The Citroen Lacoste concept car you are looking at here was born by following some of the principles that have guided design and architecture over many years. Truth to materials. Less is more. Form follows function. They are sayings that have found most favour in architecture, not cars. Revolutionary French architect Le Corbusier believed that a house was "a machine for living in". And while he might have been happy with his tiny plywood Cabanon holiday cabin, the rest of us could have done without the giant tower blocks and soulless concrete estates that his disciples built. But an architect has only one customer. He has only to convince his client once of a design and it gets built. A car maker has to convince thousands of customers every month to make the second biggest investment of their consumer lives.
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