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There have been three separate Bentley eras since Walter Owen Bentley founded the company, and each was characterized by its own look.
In this StoryCorps, Emeline King, the first Black woman to design cars for the Ford Motor Company, remembers her inspiration: her father.
Dick Ruzzin's "Designing Dreams," released July 29, focuses on the rise of muscle car culture and peak creativity at GM after Harley Earl retired.
The 1960s heralded a new era for car design. Gone were the remnants of the age of the Industrial Revolution. Designers started thinking in a different way. Suddenly, fast in. Cars that looked fast ...
Witold Rybczynski has owned 15 cars in his life, and all of them make an appearance in "The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car" (Norton, $29.99). In fact, the book is something of a ...
From GM’s ‘Damsels of Design’ to Ford’s Mimi Vandermolen who pioneered an ergonomic approach to car design. ‘Women in Design’ by Laurence King documents the alternative history of ...
The 1990s marked a golden era in automotive history, where cutting-edge design, groundbreaking performance, and innovative engineering collided to produce some of the most iconic cars ever made ...
Giorgetto Giugiaro is the Car Designer of the Century, according to 132 (relatively) young automotive journalists back in 1999. Read more about the history of designer Diorgetto Giugiaro in this ...
Between the growing number of automakers needing more distinct designs to stand out from the herd and EVs demanding wholly new methods of design, there's ...
A small boy holding a lollipop sits in a car seat in a car, 1960s. Today, a child is involved in a vehicle crash every 33 seconds in the United States. However, when they are, child safety seats ...