The Japanese ND design proposal (R) honored the design of the original Miata. Photos courtesy Mazda USA. The fourth-generation MX-5 Miata takes Mazda’s Kodo design language into new territory. It’s m...
We’ve been told for some years now that the so-called blue chips – those cars on the higher end of the market – have driven the overall growth of the collector car market. Bloomberg this week, howeve...
The Dadamore might never have progressed beyond the drawings of an eight-year-old boy, but it still caught the attention of AMC Canada President Bill Pickett. Old Cars Canada has the full story on ho...
Images courtesy American Dreaming. If Mercury was to succeed with its own pony car, greenlit after the successful launch of the Mustang, it would need an entirely new aesthetic, not just a nose job f...
You’ve waited long enough. And while you’ve waited, I’ve socked away more curiosities from people who have too much time on their hands far too much talent with Photoshop, so let’s open my little cab...
Image by Syd Mead. The 1964 Ford Falcon Futura’s taillamp might go down in history as an attractive but otherwise unremarkable automotive styling feature save for the fact that futurist Syd Mead poin...
John Platt is an Australian photographer who specializes in stills for film productions and had the good fortune to work on “Mad Max: Fury Road,” so his photos of the movie’s automotive cast are pret...
Photo via Archivio Stile Bertone. If the main purpose of the Lancia Stratos Zero concept prototype was to catch the attention of the people at Lancia it did not seem to happen at the 1970 edition of ...
Photos courtesy Checker Motor Cars. With a stock of Checker parts in hand and official paperwork filed, the reborn Checker Motor Cars is set to begin production of its versions of the famed taxi comp...
Concept sketch by Clayton Paddison. Well, it happened. My inner contrarian lost out to practicality. If you can call it practicality to own a near-century-old car with the intention of driving it on ...
Corvette rendering by Sparky Bohnstedt, circa 1954. Images courtesy Robert Edwards unless noted otherwise. Of course every car designer longs to tackle something like the Corvette: a prestige car, sl...
Photos via PhotOhio.org. In late 1985, probably more people talked about the De Lorean DMC-12 than at any other time in the car’s history. Its namesake had the year before beat the cocaine traffickin...
Photos courtesy Checker Cab Club. Though it’s only been around for a little more than a year, the Checker Cab Club recently scored a couple troves of rather significant documentation on the Kalamazoo...
We’ve got a lot more photochops bookmarked where that last batch came from, but rather than pushing more wild woolly flights of fancy on you too soon, we thought we’d take a tangent here and ask what...
Our recent story on the Futurliner had me looking through my file of saved photos and bookmarks for images to illustrate it, and while I couldn’t use the above rendering by James DonVito, it did get ...
Jeff Teague and his AMX/4 rendering. Like any of us, Jeff Teague could have become anything he wanted, but with a father as passionate about cars – particularly older cars and auto design – as legend...
LEGO bricks are supposed to be square, right? And yet, somehow, the toymaker put together an 1,167-piece kit of one of the most-rounded vehicles of all time. I guess a Lada would’ve been too easy. * ...
In an attempt to cut air pollution, the city of Paris has decided to restrict cars built before 1997 from entering the city limits on weekdays (weeknights and weekends they’re still permitted to ente...
RVs and camping were a big deal when the Scout debuted for 1961. RVs were a bandwagon International needed to be on and pursued it on all levels, including the Scout. Slide-in pickup campers were a n...
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent deca...
The Ford Thunderbird began life in 1953 as a direct response to Chevrolet’s recently unveiled Corvette prototype. Calling in some major players in the design field, the Thunderbird rapidly developed ...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Brooks Stevens never met an idea he couldn’t recycle. If it didn’t work on one concept drawing, he’d lift it for another. If it didn’t get picked up by one manuf...
Photos and images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. By 1963, Studebaker as a carmaker had run out of options. Bleeding cash, facing stiff competition, and with no new products in the pipeline, the only ...
Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
Retired designer Rodell Smith. Still from American Dreaming trailer. Aiming to eliminate the industrial stigma the art world has attached to automotive design and renderings, two collectors and chron...