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This 1958 Ford Nucleon is among 100 concept car images that Ford Motor Co. just added to its online archive site. Images are now available to the public for free downloading. 1961 Gyron ...
A concept car (also known as a concept vehicle, show vehicle or prototype) is a car made to showcase new styling or new technology. Concept cars are often exhibited at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not be produced. General Motors designer Harley Earl is generally credited with inventing the ...
The Ford Model T (foreground) and Volkswagen Beetle (background) are among the most mass-produced car models in history. Crude ideas and designs of automobiles can be traced back to ancient and medieval times. [1] [2] In 1649, Hans Hautsch of Nuremberg built a clockwork-driven carriage.
Body-on-frame. A ladder frame. A 2007 Toyota Tundra chassis holding the vehicle's engine, drivetrain, suspension and wheels. The BMW i3 electric car is one of the rare modern passenger cars with a separate body and frame design (2013). Body-on-frame is a traditional motor vehicle construction method whereby a separate body or coach is mounted ...
Automotive design. Designers at work in 1961. Standing by the scale model's left front fender is Dick Teague, an automobile designer at American Motors Corporation (AMC). Automotive design is the process of developing the appearance (and to some extent the ergonomics) of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches ...
After Kate Middleton was spotted with her husband, Prince William, on an unexpected car ride together in Windsor, England on Monday, photographer Jim Bennett shared the story behind the photo."We ...
Excalibur (automobile) The Excalibur automobile is a car styled after the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK by Brooks Stevens for Studebaker. Stevens subsequently formed a company to manufacture and market the cars, which were a standard Studebaker car with special bodywork (and soon got an upgraded engine as well). [ 1]
The Ideal Motor Car Company, organized in June 1911 by Harry C. Stutz with his friend, Henry F Campbell, began building Stutz cars in Indianapolis in 1911. [2] They set this business up after a car built by Stutz in under five weeks and entered in the name of his Stutz Auto Parts Co. was placed 11th in the Indianapolis 500 earning it the slogan "the car that made good in a day".