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Why Older Cars and Aftermarket Parts Need Regular Inspection
Metal fatigue, aging fasteners and poorly matched aftermarket parts can turn hard driving into a failure. The author explains what...
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The Atlas of Car Design Review: A Useful Guide with Notable Gaps
Phaidon’s 568-page atlas introduces more than 650 cars, though its selection leaves out several designs central to the story.
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Morgan Completes 50 Midsummers as Bespoke Craft Shapes Its Next Chapter
Morgan’s 50-car Midsummer run revived traditional skills and helped set a longer-term plan for limited series and core models.
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From Saab Shapes to Pagani Craft: Cameras Designed by Car Stylists
Car designers left their mark on cameras from affordable Nikons to a $110,000 Pagani by Gibellini, blending distinctive looks with...
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China’s 2005 Buick Regal Turned a Shared Platform Into a More Upscale Sedan
A mid-cycle redesign gave China’s Buick Regal richer styling, upgraded cabin details and technology aimed at a fast-changing marke...
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AMC Javelin Pierre Cardin: A Pony Car With a Fashion Designer’s Eye
Pierre Cardin’s vivid cabin and AMC’s sculpted body gave the Javelin a distinctive blend of pony car aggression and touring car po...
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Italdesign’s UST Deal Could Bring More Polish to Outsourced Car Design
UST’s majority stake gives Italdesign a new route to automotive projects, with AI and digital services potentially helping ideas r...
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Jaguar’s 1,000-HP Electric GT: First Ride in the New Luxury Flagship
Jaguar’s upcoming electric GT pairs 1,000 hp with a calm, refined ride. It’s due in early 2027, with a target price around £120,00...
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Gerry McGovern’s JLR Legacy: Range Rover’s Rise and a Contentious Design Culture
McGovern helped shape Range Rover’s move upmarket, but accounts of his forceful leadership and Jaguar’s Type 00 reveal a more comp...
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Chevrolet Corvette Indy: The Mid-Engine Concept That Shaped Later Corvettes
The 1986 Corvette Indy paired a mid-engine layout with Lotus engineering. Its running versions tested ideas and hardware that late...
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Mercedes Vision Iconic Revives Long-Nosed Luxury for a Global Elite
The Vision Iconic’s retro proportions make a case for heritage-led design as Mercedes courts wealthy buyers in China and faces a n...
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Mercedes-Benz Vision Iconic: Retro Styling Leaves Its EV Design Ambition Unclear
The Vision Iconic pairs a dramatic, oversized nose with a retro grille treatment. Its sculpted body and lounge-like cabin have app...
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Audi Concept C Signals a Cleaner Design Direction for the Brand
The Concept C revives Audi’s pared-back design roots, pairing a distinctive new front end with a cabin built around physical contr...
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AI Tools Expand Car Design Sketching, but Human Judgment Still Shapes the Final Car
AI can speed early car design ideas, but engineering, business constraints and human judgment still shape what reaches production.
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Tom Peters’ GM Design Career: From Camaro Sketches to Corvette Leadership
Tom Peters helped shape modern Corvette design and revive the Camaro, drawing on a lifelong interest in cars and a 35-year GM care...
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1977–79 Pontiac Bonneville and Catalina: The Big Ponchos’ Brief Revival
Pontiac’s downsized Bonnevilles and Catalinas sold strongly before a sharp 1980 decline. Their design story starts with a Chevrole...
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Nine Custom Car Terms Explained Through the Hirohata Mercury
From frenched lights to a chopped roof, these nine terms explain the bodywork and details that made the Hirohata Mercury a definin...
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Virgil Exner Jr. on His Father’s Designs, Ghia and the Cars That Stayed on Paper
Exner reflects on the Forward Look, the XNR and his revival cars, while arguing that modern design gives style less room to matter...
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Virgil Exner Jr. on Car Design, Ghia, Ford’s First Computer Studio and His Father’s Legacy
The designer recalls racing cars, the Volvo P1800 S, Ford’s shift to computer design and a career shaped by Virgil Exner Sr.
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Jaguar Type 00 Design: Bold Proportions, Uneven Details and a Big Production Challenge
The Type 00 makes Jaguar’s electric future impossible to ignore, but its unresolved front end and coming practical compromises lea...
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