In the book, Dick Ruzzin outlines the creation of the world’s first automotive design studio, and the system Earl defined that led to Motorama Cars, the auto show GM staged from 1949 through 1961.

As a senior designer at G.M., he helped create the exuberant, elongated shape of 1960s and ’70s cars like the Pontiac GTO, the Bonneville and the Trans Am. By Adam Nossiter Jiro Katayama’s designs for ...

Early car aerodynamic development focused on physical observation rather than simulation. Wind tunnels were first developed ...

You’ve probably seen this monochromatic image being tossed around if you’ve recently been following the automotive Twitterverse. It’s playing off of the idea that we live in a homogenized world, ...

The automobile grille serves not only as a functional component but also as a defining feature of car design that mirrors the technological and aesthetic trends of its era. Over the decades, grille ...

Ridgely is a three-pedal advocate and a connoisseur of old unreliable sports cars. A product of the ’90s, he’s naturally drawn to cars of that era. He daily drives his beloved 1999 Porsche 911, ...

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It is very hard to think of an automotive design in recent memory so testosterone-fueled, so overtly male as Tesla’s Cybertruck. British car designer Adrian Clarke has described the EV’s styling as a ...

Marcello Gandini has sketched some of the most radical cars in the history of automobile design. In his time leading the Italian studio Stile Bertone, his designs included the Lamborghini Miura, ...

The shift to software-defined vehicles is changing nearly every aspect of automotive design, from what hardware is added into vehicles, when it gets added, and what gets left behind. Moving key ...