Wheels of Innovation Tracing the Evolution of Car Design Milestones

Like many of his designs, it wasn't built in his lifetime. ... 1900: Ferdinand Porsche, a German automotive engineer, invented the first hybrid ... This iconic vehicle represents Toyota's first-ever passenger car. Detroit ... design, the first automobile ever to do so. Emporia, Kansas, USA, June 19 ... There's a rich design history between the strictly utilitarian designs of the early 20th century and the double-take inducing designs of modern ... The Ford Mustang achieved record sales in its first year of production and established the pony car segment. ... designs largely because British designers ... This my first attempt at an original car design, I was going for a retro-futurist vibe. This was made as part of my world building project, ... An upmarket car in Japan, sales were slowed by a higher MSRP. This was the first Datsun vehicle in the American market to feature a fully 3-speed automatic ... ... first automobile designed entirely by women and targeting women consumers.” While this was a step forward for women car designers (who are ... Compared to cars of today, they might not seem all that impressive, but take a closer look and you'll see, that couldn't be further from the ... TGJ: The art deco lines of the 1936 Ford Coupes. gbvette: 1932 was probably the first great year for automobile design. Auto makers first ... Images: Alamy & Gautam Sen. Although the very first automobile had been invented by a Frenchman, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, in the year 1770, ...