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Piston Slap: Automotive Design Studio Inbreeding?
TTAC Commentator halftruth writes: Hey Sajeev, I see a lot of manufacturers using the binocular style gauge motif (see Hyundai Elantra, 2011 Avalon, Chevy Cruze for example) and I hate it! I also...
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Tata To Enter Global Passenger Market With Help Of Jaguar Land Rover
Having done well with Jaguar Land Rover in its portfolio, Tata Motors is now turning to its premium subsidiary for its own foray into passenger cars and SUVs. Drive.com.au reports the parent company...
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Vellum Venom: 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage ES
Design School forces considerations outside of a student’s artistic comfort zone: a unique price, demographic, or geography for starters. Just don’t present a pragmatic design based in sociocultural...
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Callum: No ‘Visual Connection Between Lincoln And Ford’
For the longest time, there wasn’t much difference between Lincoln and Ford in the design game, consumers hardly seeing much difference between an MKZ and a Fusion despite the former’s premium price....
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Donckerwolke Out, Sielaff In As Bentley’s Chief Designer
Bentley design boss Luc Donckerwolke parted ways with the automaker Thursday, with VW Group interior designer boss Stefan Sielaff taking the helm. Donckerwolke penned numerous designs for the VW Group...
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GM Designer Bryan Nesbitt New Buick Global Design Boss
Longtime General Motors designer Bryan Nesbitt is now Buick’s global design boss as part of the automaker’s shuffling of chief designers. Nesbitt enters the role as he returns from a four-year stint...
View ArticleVellum Venom Vignette: A Primer on Black Plastic?
Joe writes: Can you explain black plastic on cars? I saw an Audi Q7 with black plastic all over the bottom, but then a Q5 doesn’t have it. Sometimes the plastic isn’t black but color coded like an...
View ArticleSadly, The Handsome New 2017 BMW 5 Series Looks Exactly Like The 2016 BMW 5...
The new 2017 BMW 5 Series, BMW’s seventh in a long line of revered midsize sedans, looks exactly like the outgoing BMW 5 Series. Chip off the proverbial old block. Spitting image. Germany’s vehicular...
View ArticleRange Rover Casts a Wider Sales Net With Its Midsized Velar SUV
Eager to fill a price gap in its Range Rover lineup, Land Rover has come out with a new midsize offering — the Velar. Positioned between the smaller Evoque and larger Range Rover Sport, the Velar is a...
View ArticleThe Man Who Designed Nissan’s Quirkiest Cars is Retiring
As it funnels its suit-and-ties over to Mitsubishi and rearranges its own departments like mad, Nissan is losing veteran designer, stylish dresser, and chief creative officer: Shiro Nakamura....
View ArticleSubaru has Finally Decided to Start Giving a Crap About Styling
Subaru is an automaker known for offering a highly specific brand identity and a quality product, but compelling styling has always been low on its list of priorities. While acknowledging the retro...
View ArticleGet Used to Seeing This Design On Future Mercedes-Benz Small Cars
Mercedes-Benz is showcasing its updated design language via its new Concept A Sedan. While many of its production cars have gradually adopted the new “no folds” philosophy, the Concept A Sedan and...
View ArticleLexus Knows it Needs to Improve its Sedans or Prepare Them for a Merciful Death
With crossovers on the rise, and more car-like than ever, Toyota’a global branding chief Tokuo Fukuichi knows that Lexus sedans need to offer more to customers or prepare to join the Tyrannosaurus rex...
View ArticleFaraday 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 ArticleAmerica’s Hottest Up-and-Coming Car Color Isn’t Teal, But It’s Close Enough
We took it for granted at the time, but automakers provided us with a cornucopia of lavish colors in the mid-1990s. While dark greens were the most popular hue of the day, there was no shortage of...
View ArticleSuppliers Scramble to Furnish Sophisticated Interiors (and Predict the Future)
You might not have noticed, but car interiors are growing increasingly more complex — not just in how they incorporate technology but also in the materials used. While the 1990s were awash in gray or...
View ArticleThe Rationale Behind Toyota’s Insane New Styling
Toyota has been the brand par excellence in terms of quality and reliability for as far back as many of us can remember. But, as value became its hallmark, someone decided to turn the excitement volume...
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 ArticleMarchionne & Co.: Style Will Be Essential in the Vanilla Future We’ve All...
The future is going to be absolutely terrible. Everything is going to be so sterile and automated that humans won’t have anything to do between mealtimes but eagerly anticipate their own death. At...
View ArticleAttempting to Understand the Chinese Luxury Aesthetic
Thanks to an interested and better-financed populace, luxury purchases have been on the rise in China for the past decade. Chinese consumers currently drop around $7.6 billion per year on premium...
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