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How to Design a Timeless Hypercar: Interview With Horacio Pagani
At automaker dinners, you’ll often find designers scribbling on their napkins. To design is their compulsion, and if you ask them to sketch a car, they sure as hell won’t draw a Pinto. Invariably these sketches lean swoopy and sleek,…
Toyota Designs Its Most Beautiful Cars in California
You've probably never heard the name "Calty." But walk through any crowded parking lot in America, and you'll see a dozen or more cars penned by the US design studio—you just don't know it. In 1973, Toyota established Calty in…
How Rivian Beat Everyone to Better Headlights
For well over a decade, drivers around the world have enjoyed better headlights. Adaptive Drive Beam (ADB) moves beyond the old-school binary of high and low beams, taking advantage of modern lighting technology that allows parts of a headlight’s beam…
Bring Back the Honda Element. And Make It Electric
A lot of people want cheerful, dependable EVs from trusted brands like Honda. The company’s first EV, the Prologue, outsold its GM platform mates in 2024 and only got better for 2025. The Japanese automaker has poured millions into its…
Was the SSC Tuatara Worth the 15-Year Wait? We Finally Drive It
They say perfection takes time. SSC founder and CEO Jerod Shelby takes that phrase to heart. SSC wowed us with the first Tuatara concept way back in 2011. It took another seven years for the first production car to make…
The Ford Airstream Concept Predicted Our Crossover Future
Just before the floor fell out beneath Detroit in the late 2000s, Ford partnered with Airstream for something pretty cool. The impossibly shiny Ford Airstream Concept debuted at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. At the time,…
The New Mercedes CLA Isn’t a Return to Glory. It’s a Compromise
Mercedes-Benz really wants us to believe that the new CLA is revolutionary. First teased as a concept in 2023, Mercedes promised that the forthcoming production car would offer impressive range and efficiency thanks to revolutionary tech initially previewed in the…