Car companies love a mission statement. With the arrival of the Concept C, Audi’s new one is crystal clear: “radical simplicity.” An all-electric two-seater with a retractable folding hard top, the ...

Designing a new car is a much simpler task for AI than writing the next great American novel or painting a modern masterpiece. "This is one of those moments," said a colleague who works for one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you like cars, you've probably thought about becoming a car designer at least once in your life. Odds are you never went through with it, since it would require going back to college, pulling more ...

In this StoryCorps, Emeline King, the first Black woman to design cars for the Ford Motor Company, remembers her inspiration: her father. Time now for StoryCorps. This week we hear from their ...

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 ...