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These days, even an economy car can reach 100 mph. Sports cars can double that. Despite having the power to do so, few drivers zoom around at such speeds, understanding that the potential consequences—a speeding ticket, license revocation or a deadly accident—can be bad.However, people have demonstr...

A British startup called Longbow Motors, formed by ex-Tesla and -Lucid employees, aims to create lightweight EVs that harken back to traditional British sports cars. They've unveiled two of their designs, a no-windshield Speedster and a fixed-roof Roadster, that seem to blur the line between footwea...

Mansory is a German company that tricks out exotic cars, largely for clients in Dubai. Their work consists of bolting extraneous, functionless extra parts onto vehicles in an effort to create visual interest. As an example, here's a Land Rover Defender from the firm:It's like they're trying to port ...

Marketing platform Heepsy has put together a strange report: Out of the "most hyped cars on Instagram," which models are most frequently involved in accidents? The company pored over hashtags, sales figures and crash data to determine an odd metric: "Crashes per 10,000 Sold Cars."The data is fairly ...

From the Beetle to the Rabbit to the Golf, Volkswagen has long made affordable, practical cars that those with smaller budgets can afford. Now they're aiming that prowess at the EV market with the unveiling of their ID EVERY1. The concept car is intended to make the transition into production for €2...

These images are by L.A.-based artist Joshua Vides.As it turns out, they're more than just images:Vides wraps each car in vinyl, then hand paints them to create the Pop Art / comic book / A-Ha video aesthetic. The cars were featured in Vides' solo show, Check Engine Light, which premiered in Los ...

Throughout the history of automotive design, the UK has produced a number of classics whose like we'll not see again: The Aston Martin DB6, the Jaguar XK120, the Bentley Continental. For posterity's sake it's desirable to preserve surviving examples. British company Lunaz does just that, but rather ...

There's an automotive design feature that came out in the '90s, called "window indexing" or "automatic window drop." It was applied to German cars with frameless doors; I remember seeing it in a BMW. The idea is that once you close the door, the window automatically scooches up a few millimeters, ti...

Mercedes-Benz typically makes fast, powerful cars. However, they've just unveiled this one-off EV designed "for the special purpose of slow journeys at public appearances." Introducing the all-new Popemobile, a zero-emissions vehicle based on the G580.The vehicle took about a year to produce, due to...

I don't envy those who have to work, or live, out of their cars, but that's the reality for some. Chinese manufacturer FansDreams aims to make those tasks a bit easier with their Pi Foldable Lap Desk. It's made out of fiberglass wrapped in waterproof faux leather. It folds down to ½" thick, weighs t...

I'm trying not to write about negative things on here (you should see the things in my in-box), but I really dislike this new speculative HMI design called Pulsar. It's billed as a "Plastronics" system, which the developer defines as an "ultra-thin smart interface for interacting with the new genera...

To give you an idea of artist Rudy Willingham's sense of humor, here's how he wields creative cutouts over real-world environments. These were images he was hired to produce, to promote House of the Dragon earlier this year:This personal project of his, below, is amusing. He challenged himself to de...

From a product standpoint, we're living in strange times. It took decades for brands like General Motors and Herman Miller to develop the refined products they design and build today. But in a matter of just years, Chinese brand Xiaomi has gone from making smartphones to electric cars, and Swedish P...

In recent years people have slowed down on expecting flying cars, as it seems that segment of the mobility industry is moving towards VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) vehicles that don't have wheels.Chinese automaker GAC, however, has a novel concept that is sort of a flying car. Their GOVE conc...

Here's what we looked at this week:The Nike x Hyperice Vest offers on-body climate control for athletes.The Windsible is a desktop wind tunnel for toy cars. Ronan Bouroullec's humble Maasto Dining Chair is made of pine and pine plywood.Teaser for a beautiful Ross Lovegrove design for a flexing r...

A startup called Fun Tech Lab is Kickstarting this Windsible gadget. It's a desktop wind tunnel for toy cars, where you can control the flow and theoretical speed of the vapor trails.It comes in three different sizes, to accommodate cars of 1:18, 1:24 and 1:64 scale. Prices are $289, $200 and $130, ...

The winning Professional entry is the Meta Quest 3, a VR/MR headset and controllers from Meta, while the winning Student entry is Aware, a device that alerts runners to cars and bikes approaching from behind, designed by a team from Umeå Institute of Design.The Jury Captain for this year's Core77 De...

These Knight RNR kicks are foam slip-ons "inspired by the lines and angles of race cars." They're by L.A.-based FCTRY LAb, the footwear company co-founded by veteran designer Omar Bailey, who formerly headed up the Yeezy Innovation Lab. Available in white, black, red, blue or green, the kicks run $1...

As European cities increasingly ban cars and trucks, delivery by bicycle is growing in popularity. But cargo bikes can only carry so much. That's why Cityshuttle, an urban mobility company, is taking a page from the trucking industry's book. Cityshuttle's ePack is essentially a tractor-trailer arran...

These curious looking vintage "road glasses" were made by Kasper & Richter, a German manufacturer of precision instruments. They were designed for driving in bad weather, in the days when enclosed cars were a novelty. I am so curious to try a pair on to see what can actually be seen."These glasses w...

As we drive around in our cars, it is largely our perception that determines the driving experience: The road manners of the car, the sound of the engine, the texture of the touchpoints, the functioning of the controls, the way the interior looks are all different from vehicle to vehicle and provide...

As drone piloting team the Dutch Drone Gods well know, the fastest FPV drone tops out around 180 km/h (112 mph). But over a year ago, Red Bull asked them if they could design, build and pilot a drone that could film a complete overhead lap of a Formula 1 car going full-tilt.The request was insane. I...

Here's what we looked at this week:These carved wooden cars with their high beams on are by artist Kiko Miyares.This Memo X gizmo lets you make your own sticky notes out of any paper.A master of CNC inlay, Nik of Broinwood makes these incredibly detailed endgrain cutting boards.This Expandy prototyp...

Spain-based artist Kiko Miyares carves these wonderful cars--with their high beams on—out of wood:"I immerse myself in a creative game where shapes, dimensions, and perspective intertwine to challenge expectations," Miyares told Colossal. At the ends of the beams, you can see what's in front of the ...

"Digital creative" Kyle Branchesi, a former MIT researcher who plays with both photography and AI in his spare time, created this stark series of images of the UK:"Amidst a political landscape where the 'war on motorists' is wielded as a populist tool, this series captures a future where this rhetor...

Hyundai Mobis, a Hyundai Motor Group supplier subsidiary, has developed a zero-turn system for cars. Like Mercedes, they demonstrated the tech at CES; but unlike Mercedes' brutish "G-Turn" technology, the Mobion concept car equipped with the system actually turns the wheels, all independently of eac...

If you look at most concept cars designed a quarter-century ago, they look dated, a product of their times. One exception is the Ford 021C, designed in 1999 by Marc Newson. Auto reseller L'art de L'automobile spotted it on display at this year's Pebble Beach 17 Mile event: It looks as if it could've...

These are the taillights on a 1947 Cadillac.They actually hid the fuel cap. The top part flips up to reveal it. The two red panels on the bottom are, of course, made of glass; this was 1947. However, GM design chief Harley Earl wanted to do something different for the 1948 model. His directives woul...

Hosted at Detroit's Newlab, the 21st Middlecott Sketchbattle had 20 designers compete in three 30-minute rounds. This edition's theme was "Flying Muscle Cars." Photo credit: Image: Design CorePhoto credit: Image: Design CorePhoto credit: Image: Design CorePhoto credit: Image: Design CorePhot...

An aerospace engineer by training, Steve Nichols' real dream was to design Formula One cars. Nicholas spent the 1970s designing rocket engines for Hercules Aerospace, gaining valuable experience working with carbon fiber. His knowledge of the material allowed him to join McLaren's design department ...

While some prefer to build their own tracks, a Hot Wheels enthusiast from Holland gained access to a closed waterpark. Said enthusiast also owns one of those Hot Wheels cars made to hold a GoPro:The enthusiast then set up a number of races in the slide, along with the GoPro car in the final position...

Starting with "an audacious, extreme concept sketch," according to McLaren, their designers created their Solus GT hypercar for the PlayStation game Gran Turismo Sport in 2017.The Gran Turismo series is known for scanning real-world cars into the game and imbuing the 3D models with the real-world ca...

by Edrick DeeryWe've all seen cars, athletic gear, wristwatches, etc. designed and engineered for "extreme" conditions that the users will never actually endure. Most manufacturers don't mind; the extreme capabilities serve as a selling point designed to appeal to buyer fantasy. But Ford is trying s...

Carmagheddon, an Italian collective of automotive hackers, took the trend of lowering cars to its most extreme possibility. They took a Fiat Panda and removed, well, most of it: And yes, there's actually a guy in there driving the thing. If you're curious as to how they did it, they've got not one, ...

This week Tesla unveiled this new footage of their Optimus, "a general purpose, bi-pedal, autonomous humanoid robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks." Startlingly, at the Tesla shareholders meeting Elon Musk stated that "the majority of Tesla's long-term value will be Optimus...

A heads-up display, or HUD, is one of the more useful features I've encountered in modern cars. So I was excited when BMW announced their forthcoming Panoramic Vision feature, which they touted as a "New head-up display across the entire width of the windscreen." However, the version they unveiled i...

It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when German design was not well-regarded; in the 19th century the Teutonic states just didn't have it together. (The Wiener Werkstatte helped change things.) Similarly, Japanese cars were hardly masterpieces in the '50s, and few desired Korean appliance...

At Tesla's recent Investor Day presentation, Lars Moravy, the company's VP of Vehicle Engineering, revealed a startling new manufacturing technique that up-ends assembly line production. To explain how it works, Moravy first introduced this animation of how cars are currently built:Traditional Metho...

Today's installment of Creative Ways to Make Money with a Lasercutter: Etsy shop Artifact Design NC has used theirs to design wall-hung garages for 1:64-scale (i.e. Matchbox-sized) toy car enthusiasts. It's certainly a better way to display the cars than the old-school Matchbox rack, which only show...

A pair of Danish craftsmen have used their design/build skills to improve the lives of those with disabilities. Their mission has spread to Japan.We tend to be picky about the objects we use to get around every day, whether those are cars, bicycles, footwear. For those with permanent mobility issues...

What do 3D-printed concrete homes, floating solar panels, and race cars have in common? A team of designers and engineers working hard behind the scenes to make them each a reality. In this article, we cover how each of these projects and more came to life with the help of the leading cloud product ...

Here in 2023 we carry small screens in our pocket--and have gigantic ones on our workstations, in our living rooms and even in our cars. So it might be difficult to imagine a time when screens were not as important, and even a desk-sized unit could have a tiny screen.This is Mario Bellini's TCV 250,...

The design of car concepts and new production models is getting weirder and wilder. Both old, established manufacturers and upstart brands are, like social media, competing for our attention, and it shows with what they've been rolling out; digital modeling tools and advanced production techniques a...

In 2022 we saw some strange experimental features and outlandish mods on cars. Here are the most interesting:The designers over at Genesis cooked up this new shifter interface design called the Crystal Sphere (not joking) for their GV60:BMW came up with a color-changing car covered in E-ink panels: ...

It's crazy to think that modern cars still have the same wheel layout as the wagons used by the ancient Romans. That configuration, of course, shapes and constrains the design of automobiles.That may change, radically, if tire manufacturer Hankook's WheelBot concept becomes reality. Here's how it's ...

When it comes to crashes, cars have grown ever safer—provided you're inside the vehicle. In the event of a collision, passengers are swaddled in a comprehensive cocoon of airbags that would've been impossible to imagine 30 years ago.However, things have grown no safer for those outside the car. A cy...

Volkswagen has unveiled their GEN.TRAVEL vehicle, a concept that slots into a future where autonomous cars replace short-haul flights. The design of the car—particularly the interior—was driven by the fact that the car would not be privately owned, but for-hire:"The GEN.TRAVEL has a unique, modular ...

Hailing from Lithuania, Kristijonas and Paulius are two motorheads with a laser cutter. The duo run Petrol Vibes, a company that laser-cuts silhouettes of iconic cars out of 2mm steel, then powder coats them and provides mounting hardware that has them stand off of the wall by 1.5cm (0.6") to cast a...