Categories: Auto Design

Ford and IDEO redesign the dashboard

Posted by: Helen Walters on January 07

Ford CEO Alan Mulally delivered the opening keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this morning. The car company's theme, ahead of next week's North American International Auto...

Carnegie Mellon Converts Gas-Powered Cars to Electricity

Posted by: Damian Joseph on November 16

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University aren't waiting for big car companies to bring affordable electric vehicles to the market. They're proving that with some tinkering, today's gas-powered models can be...

A new lab to feed Lamborghini's need for speed

Posted by: Jay Greene on October 06

Ask my 11-year-old son to list his favorite cars and pretty quickly, he'll reel off Lamborghini’s Murcielago Roadster. The zippy two-seater, which runs nearly $400,000, goes from zero to 62...

Cash for Clunkers Out of Cash? Not Anymore!

Posted by: Damian Joseph on July 31

The Cash for Clunkers program, designed to get those old gas-guzzling, pollution spewing motor vehicles off the road almost ran out of cash ... But, the House stepped in and...

Fiat Punto: design review

Posted by: Helen Walters on July 14

It's been a while since I had to drive anywhere, but this weekend I picked up a Fiat Punto from Heathrow and headed to the southwest of England. After about...