Out there among gears and grease, risk-takers have quietly bent what cars could be. Where most stuck to safe shapes and steady engines, a few slipped sideways into wilder ideas. Machines emerged with ...

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

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Jaguar's new era is here. The British automaker's first design concept ...

It is a rare event for a tinkerer to contrive a new solution to an existing problem that had never occurred to anyone previously, and it is even more exceptional in this era of electronics for a new ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

For decades, cars from the 1980s occupied an awkward place in the collector market.

The Petersen Automotive Museum has a new exhibit showcasing the wedge automotive styling era that produced a multitude of ‘creased and folded’ cars during the 1970s and ‘80s. “The Wedge Revolution: ...

ItalDesign USA's new office is in Bloomfield Hills. The design and engineering consultant has been around since 1968 and contributed to the design of the DeLorean. ItalDesign recently showed off the ...

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 ...

But the aerodynamic analyses car designers rely on are excruciatingly slow. “We’ll release a design surface, and then it can take days or weeks to get a full set of analysis back on the performance of ...

In some ways, the humble door handles we use to open our vehicles haven’t changed much in over five decades. In others, today’s modern handles represent a leap forward in technology. In the formative ...