Project Snowball, our 1989 Formula Firebird, is intended to be a dual-use, street-driven car capable of running on the track with the latest pony cars at High Performance Driving Events (HPDE). HPDEs ...

Personalization, probably more than any other single aspect, motivates us to build cars. Ours is a time-honored ritual of deconstructing things mass produced for many people and reassembling them ...

McLaren knows a thing or two about saving weight. It was the first team to use a carbon-fiber monocoque in Formula One, with the MP4/1, and the first to build a road car using the same material, with ...

A lot of new cars come with wonderfully bolstered seats ready for the racetrack from the factory (i.e. Civic Type R, Focus RS). On the flip side however, many sporty cars (loads of them older) could ...

Ralph Hanson November 18, 2008 Comment Now! The Art Center College of Design has turned out some of the most highly regarded designers in the automotive industry, including Chip Foose, Chris Bangle, ...