Teams competing in the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship over the course of the past month have revealed their race cars for the new season, and in the lead up to this weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix Mercedes-AMG has dropped…
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Former McLaren design boss joins Lilium flying taxi startup
Follow Viknesh Frank Stephenson shocked many when he stepped down from the lead design role at McLaren in early 2017. It turned out he wanted to apply his design skills in an entirely new segment: flying taxis. The renowned designer,…
Pininfarina details “Pura” design language for future cars, PF0 hypercar almost fully revealed
Follow Viknesh The new Pininfarina car brand spun off earlier this year from the Italian design house and coachbuilder of the same name is working on a handful of models, all of them high-performance electric cars to be targeted at…
2019 Acura ILX brings brand's new design language, $2,200 price cut
Follow Viknesh Acura’s ILX enters the 2019 model year with a fresh set of clothes, representing the second time the compact luxury sport sedan has been updated since its 2013 debut. The latest tweaks inject the ILX with some much-needed…
Ex-Rolls-Royce design boss to pen models for Chinese luxury brand Hongqi
Follow Viknesh Giles Taylor Chinese automaker FAW Group is in the process of reviving historic brand Hongqi as China’s premiere automotive label and hired the former design chief of Rolls-Royce to pen the new models. FAW announced Friday that Giles…
Radical speedster concept hints at future design, powertrains for Infiniti
Follow Viknesh Infiniti will start switching over to an electrified lineup around 2021 when the first models based on a new modular platform are introduced. That date’s a few years off but in the interim Infiniti is providing a glimpse…