Design

In 1967, Lotus put a sky-high wing on the rear of the Lotus 49 to convert wind flowing from the top of the car to aerodynamic weight to press harder down on the rear wheels. Carmakers have gotten down on what came up ever since. Nearly all high-performance cars on the road now utilize not only some...

Italian design house Italdesign Giugiaro is in the midst of a major transition. The company, famous for penning cars like the original Volkswagen Golf and even the DeLorean DMC-12, in July 2015 saw the Volkswagen Group take full control as the Giugiaro family finally cut ties with the company it...

The 2018 Lexus LC luxury coupe has one of the most stunning interiors we’ve seen on a production car. This was no small feat for the Lexus design team, as explained by one of the automaker’s “Takumi” craftspeople. Many of the manufacturing techniques to be used on the LC...

Having already lured former Bentley design boss Luc Donckerwolke, Hyundai has now managed to snag Bentley’s designer in charge of exteriors, the talented Sang Yup Lee. The Korean designer has previously worked for the likes of Pininfarina, Porsche and most recently Bentley, however...

McLaren is stretching its legs across Europe by visiting seven design-conscious cities to give some of its most-valued customers a little insight into its operations. Not surprisingly, the first stop is Paris, where starting today some of the automaker's designers will visit with a handful of...

About a year ago we brought you news on a fuel-efficient car project undertaken by Shell and Gordon Murray Design. The result is the Shell Concept Car unveiled today, a three-seat city car that's said to be capable of returning up to 90 mpg. The Shell Concept Car isn’t intended for...

General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] today announced that design chief Ed Welburn will retire effective July 1. Welburn, 65, spent 44 years at General Motors. He took over as head of GM design in 2003, then assumed global responsibilities in 2005. Under his leadership, GM built a network of 10 design...

Porsche is heading in a different direction with the Mission E. The company's first electric sports car, the Mission E promises 600 horsepower and 310 miles of range. We first saw the Mission E Concept at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show. Now Porsche has released a video that goes behind the scenes...

Buick has had some recent hits in the world of concepts with cars like the Avenir and Avista. Though both are based on existing General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] platforms, respectively the rear-wheel-drive Omega and Alpha, Buick has downplayed the chances of either being built. Buick chief Duncan...

Jeep is hard at work developing a new Wrangler, one that’s expected to be larger yet more fuel efficient than the current model. The new Wrangler will also spawn a pickup bodystyle, as confirmed by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] CEO Sergio Marchionne earlier this year. DON'T MISS: 2017...

This week BMW celebrated its 100th anniversary with the unveiling of a wild, forward-looking concept car. While the concept didn’t preview a new supercar as many had hoped, it did provide numerous clues as to what we can expect for BMW’s cars of the future. The concept, called the...

Noted designer Harald Belker, who has penned cars for Hot Wheels and Hollywood, has created a life-size version of the robotic Anki Drive ultra-futuristic miniature racing cars. This full-size design isn't exactly headed to roads near you soon, but it does give a glimpse into what's possible for...

Following the appointment of Lamborghini’s longstanding CEO Stephan Winkelmann at Audi’s Quattro division a couple of weeks ago, the Italian supercar marque has since confirmed that its design boss Filippo Perini will also be heading to another Volkswagen Group subsidiary. Perini will...

Last week at the Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini introduced a new special edition car. Meant to celebrate the 100th birthday of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, the Centenario LP 770-4 is essentially a special body on the ultra-high-performance $400,000 Aventador LP 750-4 SuperVeloce. Basing...

Utilizing a hydrogen fuel cell, the zero-emission H2 Speed concept that debuted at this week's 2016 Geneva Motor Show might be the cleanest racing car ever built. The concept was styled by famed Italian firm Pininfarina but engineering outfit GreenGT provided its low-emission expertise. A pair of...

Bentley has just launched its first SUV in the form of the 2017 Bentayga, but the automaker is already looking at launching a second to tap into strong demand for high-riding vehicles as well as counter rival offerings from the likes of Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce and even fellow Volkswagen Group...

Icona is a design house with Italian roots but is based in Shanghai, China where it has access to a number of Chinese automakers, both established and up-and-coming. The company was only founded in 2010 but has close links to Italian firm Cecomp, which for more than three decades has been building...

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] has no plans to drop its supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V-8, aka the Hellcat, into the engine bay of the all-new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica, but the automaker’s top designer Ralph Gilles was game enough to draw up a quick sketch of how such a vehicle might be...

Only yesterday we saw the winners of a student design contest held by Ferrari [NYSE:RACE]. Now we have the winners from a similar contest held by Dodge, only instead of recruiting students from automotive design schools Dodge reached out to high schoolers from all across the country. Their mission...

Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] recently ran a challenge that pitted students from some of the world’s top automotive design schools against one another in a mission to pen the supercar of the future. Student projects from around 50 schools were submitted and then these were whittled down to four...