Isack Hadjar races at the 2025 United States Grand Prix in Austin. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; David Buono / Icon Sportswire / Getty Images Between the Racing Lines | Formula One is ...

I was one of the lucky dogs who got to tour Mattel’s Hot Wheels design center. Here’s how it went. Back in 1968, Mattel’s Elliot Handler started Hot Wheels to compete against Matchbox cars. Over the ...

For much of the twentieth century, the automobile was shaped less by the wind than by the whims of stylists and the desires of buyers. Long before drag coefficients became a selling point, car bodies ...

Mercedes-Benz design chief Gordon Wagener predicts AI will dominate car design within 10 years Wagener said Mercedes is already using AI in car design Wagener said digital screens aren't luxury and ...

For Volvo, cars aren't just a mode of transportation, they're a sanctuary. And the company has a unique point of view for delivering a premium ecosystem to the customer where technology, materials, ...

CFD, or Computational Fluid Dynamics, is the use of computer simulations to predict how fluids like air or coolant move around and through objects. In car design, "fluid" mostly means airflow. It's ...

Analysing the use of generative AI in car design – some in the industry say it can't be ignored, while others think it generates nothing new ...