Articles about Car Designer

It has done just 328km

Must be nice seeing a car you've designed come to life. Especially when it's, oh, you know, a manufacturer's flagship model. Only natural you'd want to own one, too, right?Moray Callum, designer of the second-gen Ford

Which of these do you think the carmaker should bring to life?

We're big on concepts here at Top Gear PH. And we're simple gearheads, too. We see a nice sketch, we press like.And quite recently, we've been treated to a series of interesting truck concepts from General Motors. GM

“I’m not chasing all the madness, ever”

Gordon Murray's next project will be "a little bit more conventional."Speaking to Top Gear on the reveal of the T.50s racer-the track-only 'version' of the T.50 supercar-Murray revealed that whatever he does next will, naturally,

Form and function go hand in hand here

Gordon Murray is sitting in the T.50. I'm kneeling at the door. Feels kind of like I'm worshipping at the altar. And today's first reading is taken from the book of pedals."I did the stress calculations for

The designer names eight things he hates about the car

Some things in life are universally accepted as the truth. Pineapple is an unacceptable pizza topping, for example. Christian Bale played the best on-screen Batman. The McLaren F1 is perfect. Of these things, there can be no argument.We don't

“If Nissan wants me to redo one, I’m quite happy to do that”

This is the guy who helped design some of the world’s most popular cars

Only a select few earn the chance and the privilege to design the most popular and exotic cars in the world. Automotive designer Frank Stephenson is part of this elite set of talents, and throughout his career, he has had a hand

The change in scenery also includes new leadership

Jaguar has just spent £500 million (around P31.9 billion) on a new design studio. That says some significant things about the future of the brand.The studio is right in the middle of Jaguar Land Rover's Gaydon site, the very

Because cars aren’t the only vehicles these Italians can design

How do you follow the launch of a 1,900hp all-electric hypercar? For Pininfarina, the answer was simple-design a train, of course.Now, this may seem a little out of the blue, but the Italian design house does actually have

Expect a big change in future Koenigsegg supercars

Having glanced at the featured image above, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Christian von Koenigsegg (CvK) was about to drop the hottest collab album of 2019. As much as we wish this was true, what he's actually doing is

“I’ve done what I set out to do. Time for a new adventure”

Ian Callum, one of the titans of modern car design, is departing from his job as Jaguar's design director. He has been there 20 years, overseeing a full transformation of the sedans and sports cars, the launch of the SUVs, and

Wini Camacho makes us proud to be Filipino

Contrary to popular belief, no production car (at least in this day and age) is designed by one man alone. Even the legendary Giorgetto Giugiaro had a whole team of designers working under him during the conceptualization if the Delorean DMC-12.

A jeepney makeover by a world-class Filipino car designer

Our kababayan car designer Winifredo Camacho was featured in our April issue this year because of a very special achievement: He had played a big role in the design of the current- model Mercedes-Benz E-Class. In the world of automobile

An inspiring tale for aspiring designers

Want to become a car designer? Ian Callum, design director at Jaguar, sent a letter at the age of 13 and hasn't looked back. Over to Ian...Fifty years ago, I sent a set of drawings to Jaguar's vice president,

What makes a design timeless?

The man pictured above is Wini Camacho, a car designer who has been with Mercedes-Benz for the past two decades. He works for one of the biggest automotive brands in the world, and he's Filipino. That's right, Camacho got

Remember Randy Rodriguez?

If you're viewing this on a mobile device and can't see the video, please click here. So you've seen the supremely awesome Nissan Titan Warrior concept--the meanest-looking pickup truck we've come across lately. We absolutely fell

Winner of Top Design School Challenge

A little over a month ago, we ran a story on the Ferrari Top Design School Challenge. Basically, the goal of the competition was to find the best vision of what the Italian carmaker's vehicles would look like by the time

An old soul in a new body

Old soul inside a new body--we can't think of better words with which to describe the hand-built Jannarelly Design-1, an all-new "classic-inspired" two-seater sports car that pays homage to the glory days of the automotive

Join Mazda PH's MX-5 design competition

I'm not going to lie: Being an automotive journalist is a pretty cool gig. So cool, in fact, that I often catch myself wondering what I did in my juvenile past to deserve this job. To be honest, there are not

We attend a university talk hosted by Volkswagen PH

By now, most of you know that Volkswagen Philippines invited Simon Loasby, the design director of Volkswagen Group China, to speak and be one of the highlights during its Philippine International Motor Show presentation last week.A day before the start of