Category: Car Design

Cars of Supercar’s Past: Lamborghini Countach

Cars of Supercar’s Past: Lamborghini Countach

In the 50th year of Lamborghini’s first venture into the supercar business, 2013 has been a period where the company has celebrated with pompous designs and massive horsepower. How else should an exotic car manufacturer ring in a golden anniversary? The ultra limited Veneno and now the super radical Egoista concept car make clear Lamborghini [...]

Was “The 4th” With You?

Was “The 4th” With You?

Just in case your senses weren’t strong enough, and you didn’t realize yesterday was Star Wars day, don’t worry!  I can provide your far…far away fix today!  Let’s all just take a moment and enjoy the best “Fan Boy” modified cars. First of all I bet you didn’t know that there was an official Star Wars [...]

Car Design Reimagined with Minimalist Car Art – Blackprints

Car Design Reimagined with Minimalist Car Art – Blackprints

Seriously, this crowd-funding thing is awesome. Before now, anybody wanting to start a business or project would need a crapload of their own money or funded by seed capital. It’s not that way anymore, and Sabrina Chun from San Francisco is a perfect example of this. Sabrina started a campaign on the popular crowdfunding website [...]

Automakers Realize the Platform for Success

Automakers Realize the Platform for Success

Expected to adhere to constantly changing criteria driven by government and consumer fronts, automakers have utilized the practice of building multiple vehicles off a single platform. Existing as a kind of foundation for automotive designers, vehicle platforms represent a series of standardized parts that can conform to various cars, trucks and crossovers. Defining a standardized [...]

Israeli-Chinese Partnership Qoros Uncovers GQ3 Sedan for 2013

Israeli-Chinese Partnership Qoros Uncovers GQ3 Sedan for 2013

While the North American auto market is lacking significant presence of a Chinese auto company, some manufacturers native to the Asian country have craved inroads to international exposure through Europe. SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) maintains the nearly 90-year old MG brand while Geely has controlled Swedish carmaker Volvo since 2010. Able to enjoy some [...]

Trademark Sleuthing the Cars of the Future

Trademark Sleuthing the Cars of the Future

With much of the world busy guessing (and alarmingly betting on) the name of an unborn heir in a royal family, the automotive world braces for its own new additions. First coming at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show and to Detroit early in the new year, 2013 and beyond automobiles will see some brand [...]

Chevrolet Reveals SS Sedan Based 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Car

Chevrolet Reveals SS Sedan Based 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Car

  Two weeks ago at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series concluded for drivers and teams with Brad Keselowski being name champion after a pressure-cooker battle with Jimmie Johnson. The end of the season was also the last outing for the current stock car in the stable of Chevrolet teams with the Impala [...]

Spying on the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette

Spying on the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette

For the past several months around the Detroit area, automotive paparazzi have been a little anxious to capture an image of General Motor’s latest mechanical celebrity. The seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette (known popularly as the ‘C7′) has the entire car world waiting in anticipation for its pending debut. Undercover and incognito, peaks at a masked Corvette C7 have [...]