Writing about car design ain’t easy. It’s a rich, endlessly fascinating subject, but also one that’s opaque and secretive by default. Automakers the world over are very protective of everything that ...

The automobile’s trajectory has everlastingly outrun the visual. More so than that for any another item, throughout the ...

So, while seasoned car spotters may recite the family trees of Ford, Ferrari, Jaguar, or Porsche, it’s a sure bet that they could ever have imagined the American 1932 Stout Scarab or the 1935 Wikov ...

In the book, Dick Ruzzin outlines the creation of the world’s first automotive design studio, and the system Earl defined that led to Motorama Cars, the auto show GM staged from 1949 through 1961.

As a senior designer at G.M., he helped create the exuberant, elongated shape of 1960s and ’70s cars like the Pontiac GTO, the Bonneville and the Trans Am. By Adam Nossiter Jiro Katayama’s designs for ...