car design
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The Mark 4 Volkswagen Jetta May Be The Platonic Ideal Of Small Sedan Design
It kind of hurts a little bit to focus on a car this, well, normal. It’s not that I mind, it’s more that it’s just feels weird to me, like if I suddenly had to give up eating food and instead chew on nutrient-impregnated orbs of putty — I could do it, if I had…
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A Simple Trick For Designing Cars
I have my issues with the McLaren P1’s design. Alright, I have one issue: there is a FAKE WINDOW on a top-tier hypercar. Regardless! The car’s designer Frank Stephenson explained how he penned the thing, and gave a good tip on how to make a car look good in the process.
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If You Can’t Wait For The 2021 Ford Raptor, There’s Already A Chinese Knockoff
While China was once infamous for their automotive acts of, charitably, near-plagiarism, over the last decade or so the larger Chinese automakers have distanced themselves from this practice and done a lot to define a uniquely Chinese design language for their cars. That doesn’t mean that everyone is doing that, of course, as you can…
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It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
Just before Ford unveiled the new Bronco, Jeep busily attempted to steal the show by sticking a V8 in the Wrangler. Jeep was trying. It was a bit of a dud, but at least it was trying to get in there, get some people thinking again about that stalwart Jeep, not just the new cool…