Faraday Future Puts Out Sizzle Reel, Possibly to Entice Potential Investors
We’re not going to recap all of Faraday Future’s staffing issues, financial hurdles, or uncouth business practices. If you’ve visited this website within the last year, you already know the company has...
View Article2018 Hyundai Sonata Limited 2.0T First Drive – More Content, More Face, Same...
As Tim Cain put it so succinctly earlier this afternoon, the seventh-generation Hyundai Sonata’s exterior design, coming on the heels of the quite edgy 2011-2014 model, didn’t set American’s hearts...
View ArticleIncreasingly Desperate Car Designers Aren’t Interested in Bombs, Jets,...
Take a mental trip back to the late 1950s. Imagine, if you will, a Detroit Three dealer’s lot. Tailfins lifted themselves towards the heavens, slicing through the air in a bid to capture Sputnik 1....
View ArticleWhy Are Japanese Cars Starting to Look Different All of the Sudden?
While it’s impossible to imagine you haven’t already noticed, Japanese automakers are entering a new era of style. Disparate from each other and unabashedly novel, vehicles are beginning to crop up at...
View ArticleQOTD: Are Any Next-generation 2018 Vehicles a Styling Slam Dunk?
It’s an “eye of the beholder” kind of thing. Like in the Twilight Zone episode of the same name, sometimes a great-looking vehicle stands out as a freak in a world of uglies. Some models we just don’t...
View ArticleSpied: 2019 Ram 1500, Now With Less Camo (and Tradition)
Fiat Chrysler executives have made it very clear: the next-generation Ram 1500 needs to move away from the styling cues of the past, no matter how hard the transition will be for brand traditionalists...
View ArticleThe Taillight Factor: When Heritage Becomes Dangerous Cargo
I’ve long said that stereotypes exist for a reason, perhaps to my ever-increasing danger from the “that’s problematic!” crowd. In many cases, however, it’s a false assumption. An unfair one. We’re a...
View ArticleMercedes-Maybach ‘Grillin’ It’ With Updated Styling Cues
Returning from the dead in 2014, Mercedes’ ultra-luxury Maybach sub-brand has become the only way to make absolutely certain you’ve purchased highest-spec S-class in existence. There was a problem,...
View ArticleIs the Mercedes-Maybach Pullman the Perfect Family Vehicle?
With the minivan now dethroned by sport utility vehicles and crossovers as the king of family transportation, we’ve run into a problem. Larger three-row SUVs can be expensive, while their more...
View ArticleQOTD: Eyes Without a Face?
Like a normal person, I spent my final waking moments last night reading the comments on Monday’s 2019 Toyota Avalon review. I’m either a masochist or a narcissist. The new Avalon is a large car with a...
View ArticleThe Milan Red Could Be the Ugliest Hypercar in History
We know you like to dog on supercars, and we’re right there with you. They’re extravagant toys for people you’re unlikely to encounter unless you were born into high society or made some exceptionally...
View ArticleRollin’ in My 2.0: Honda Debuts 2019 Civic Sport in Sedan and Coupe Form
It was possible to get into a Sport-trimmed Honda Civic before the 2019 model year, but you’d have to agree to the hatchback bodystyle first. Not everyone gazed upon that particular Civic’s styling...
View ArticleNearly Better Than the Real Thing: Porsche Taps Video Game Tech to Break New...
Porsche has grown rather chummy with the video game community of late. In 2017, the automaker used North America’s largest gaming expo as a platform for the debut of the 911 GT2 RS. You can attribute...
View ArticleVellum Venom: Trabant 601
On a frigid Detroit winter morning in 1998, I foolishly argued with a CCS professor over the need for conventional sedans or hatchbacks for our India design projects. Almost a decade later, the Tata...
View ArticleQOTD: What’s Left for Retro?
There’s no debating the fact that I draw far more inspiration from older, classic designs than futuristic ones. Hardly progressive of me, I know. While some want nothing more than to gaze upon an...
View ArticleYou Won’t Have Trouble Finding the 2019 Nissan Maxima in L.A.
At Nissan, all eyes are on the vastly revamped 2019 Altima, currently trickling onto dealer lots with a revolutionary variable compression four-cylinder under some hoods and available all-wheel drive....
View ArticleMigrating Bowtie: Chevy’s New NASCAR Camaro SS Is Yet More Evidence of Second...
When Chevrolet rolled into last month’s SEMA show with a vivid, one-off Camaro SS show car, our attention was drawn to its new “concept” face. It seemed like the bowtie brand had read Matthew Guy’s...
View ArticleProblem Solved? 2020 Chevrolet Camaro SS Dons New Face, Placating an Outraged...
It was something we bitched and moaned about to no end in these digital pages. While most iterations of the refreshed 2019 Chevrolet Camaro looked, well, fresh, the popular SS model clearly fell on its...
View ArticleQOTD: What Styling Quirk Gets Under Your Skin?
The other day, we talked up the things that annoy us about the cars we own; today, we delve into minor annoyances seen only in a few fleeting seconds. The model you don’t own, but are forced to live...
View ArticleIan Callum, Sculptor of Modern Jaguar, to Step Down As Director of Design
Designers don’t always get the credit they deserve, nor the recognition they usually shun. But without a steady, inspired hand forming the shape of an automaker’s offerings, all the business acumen of...
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