As a classic car enthusiast, my passion revolves around cars with a Made in West Germany stamp somewhere on them, partially because that phrase generally implied a reputation for mechanical honesty ...

What happens if you remove all the rules? For a designer, that means total creative freedom. Forget budgets or practicality. Throughout history, concepts have pushed the boundaries and questioned the ...

CFD, or Computational Fluid Dynamics, is the use of computer simulations to predict how fluids like air or coolant move around and through objects. In car design, "fluid" mostly means airflow. It's ...

In the first episode of "Driving Design," Hot Wheels designer Craig Callum is delighted to learn that McLaren principal designer Alex Alexiev's first car was a Pontiac Fiero GT that he built all new ...

When car designers go off the rails, it’s rarely a good thing. Here are examples of the best and worst of car designs. Modern car design sometimes seem to have lost its sense of proportion, simplicity ...

Safety, emissions, and taxation regulations can play a more important role in determining the size, weight, and shape of cars ...