Design

Up Design shows its latest project in a short, memorable teaser video.

Usually the supercar is the artwork, but in this video, the Lamborghini Reventon is nothing more than a canvas.

Chris Benjamin, Volvo's chief designer at its Monitoring and Concept Center (VMCC), has put pen to digital paper to re-interpret the iconic P1800 in celebration of its 50th anniversary. The images show what might have happened if the funky little coupe had survived into the modern era...

General Motors’s Advanced Design Studio is located at a secret location somewhere in southern California, and over the past decade or so the studio has been responsible for the look of many of GM’s cars you see on the roads today--in the U.S. and overseas. The studio’s most recent...

Back in March we took a look at some of the best technology and design at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, and as the press days for the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show draw to a close we look at some of the highlights from Japan. Tokyo is where all the big Japanese manufacturers roll out their blue-sky ideas and...

Lorenzo Ramaciotti, a former Pininfarina designer and man responsible for cars like the 360 Modena, 550 Maranello and 612 Scaglietti, has been tasked with the challenge of making future Chryslers appear at home even if they're wearing a Lancia badge. Ramaciotti retired from designing cars in 2005...

There can be few things more subjective than automotive beauty. As the saying goes, one man's meat is another man's poison. That being the case, we think we might just have been poisoned by the contenders for Most Beautiful Car of the Year at the 27th International Automobile Festival. Held in...

UPDATE: The 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL Class has been revealed. Click here for all the info and photos. We recently gave you a taste of some of the technical highlights of the upcoming 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class, but now we have an in-depth look at the new technologies making their way onto the luxury...

Annie and her Smart 341 Parkour Concept have taken top honors at the recent Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge, which this year focused on the theme of “Hollywood’s Hottest New Movie Car”. Penned at the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Sindelfingen, Germany, the 341...

Whatever you think of the Smart brand and its diminutive two-seater city cars you have to commend its bold, fresh take on modern motoring. It's easy to get the impression that, after years of posting huge losses, the brand is riding out the market until tiny, fuel-efficient cars become genuinely...

Legendary Ferrari designer and coachbuilder Sergio Scaglietti passed away at the age of 91 late yesterday at his home in Modena, Italy. While in the modern era his name was attached to the Pininfarina-designed 612 Scaglietti, named in honor of his valued contribution to Ferrari throughout the...

Imagine: a sleek, elegant condominium building on the Miami oceanfront, equipped with all the conveniences modern life can afford, plus a glass elevator--where your car rides, too. In fact, you ride in your car up the glass elevator and straight to your high-rise apartment. That's exactly what's...

BMW today announced it has taken a 15.16 percent stake in SGL Carbon SE, a leading manufacturer of carbon fiber and carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). This move should surprise no one, as BMW has been closely partnered with SGL for several years now, but it does put a point on the near future...

Volvo's XC90 is now nine years old, and a replacement is in the works for 2014. Design sketches seem to indicate that the car will be far less conservative than its predecessor.

Controversial stylist Chris Bangle will be award the Eyes On Design Lifetime Achievement Award next June, for his contribution to the world of automotive design.

We've speculated before that if technology giant Apple were to build a car, then licencing Gordon Murray's aptly-named iStream process would be a good place to start, with no prior experience creating cars. We could never see Apple releasing a car as ungainly as the T.25 or electric T.27 though...

It's fair to say that engineering genius Gordon Murray has divided opinion of late. Revered for his work in Formula 1 racing resulting in several team world titles and best known for his contribution to the seminal McLaren F1 supercar in the early 90s, his current project to revolutionize personal...

The 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show is nearly upon, it’s just two weeks away to be exact, and in the lead up to the annual event entries for the show’s accompanying Design Challenge have hit the Web. Each year for the past eight years, a new theme for the Design Challenge is chosen and then...

For the sophisticated executive who has everything, or the geekiest of Porsche fans, industrial design group Porsche Design together with Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, has brought out a very stylish piece of tech. That piece of tech is the new Porsche Design...

When designing the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG, designers first start with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper.