Not every facelift is an upgrade. We break down car redesigns that lost touch with heritage and popular taste, alienating ...

Audi might not be the first automaker to come to mind when debating automotive design with car people. The Ingolstadt-based automaker has created a very successful design language, with its vehicles ...

“No Model Y ‘refresh’ is coming out this year,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated earlier this year. “I should note that Tesla continuously improves its cars, so even a car that is six months newer will be a ...

How the 1938 Buick Y-Job concept car invented modern automotive design. Harley Earl's groundbreaking prototype introduced ...

Electric cars are here to stay, but they’ll be sharing garage space with internal-combustion vehicles for the time being. That leaves automotive designers and product planners with a decision: Should ...

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

Tesla has made the revised Model 3 Performance a much better car than before, and you can now tell it’s the Performance just by looking at it. It has different front and rear bumpers, a carbon fiber ...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling is so crucial to automotive design, and especially for race cars, that F1’s sanctioning body restricts its use by teams (along with physical model testing ...

In the early 1900s, cars were not designed with particular aesthetics in mind. They were primarily built to be practical and utilitarian. The introduction of the Ford Model T in 1908, the first ...