The technologies that rewrote the rules for good.
Managing Composites: the bones of the hypercars you see at Goodwood are engineered in Spain Everybody looks to Dallara as the reference for hypercar and racing chassis work. And then I stumble onto a little-known Spanish company that turns out to do the same thing. And does it just as well, because it builds for … Read more
CFD in Car Design: Engineering Against an Enemy Nobody Can See With the collaboration of Yousef Hassanpour, aerospace and chemical engineer (Sharif University of Technology). The CFD study, simulations and images accompanying this article are his own work. Here is something that ought to unsettle anyone who trusts modern engineering: the equations governing how air … Read more
Metal 3D Printing: How a Spanish Multinational Became the Turning Point for Classic Car Restoration There’s a factory on an industrial estate in Linares, a mid-sized city in southern Spain nobody outside the country has ever heard of, that ships more than 95% of what it builds to over sixty countries. Almost no one in … Read more
Zenvo TSR-S: What’s There Beyond the Wing? The Zenvo TSR-S is the car from that clip — the one with the wing that twists sideways. You’ve seen it: a stationary supercar, all angles and menace, and a rear wing that suddenly cants over to one side, pirouettes for the phone camera. Millions of views. “Witchcraft” … Read more
Adaptive Car Body: Inside Aeromorph and the Question the Industry Has Dodged for a Century Watch a hawk hold itself steady in a crosswind sometime. The wings don’t flap. They adjust. Thousands of feathers pivot a fraction of an inch each, no change to the overall shape of the wing, and that quiet army of … Read more
Chaparral 2J: the car that made downforce while standing still In June 2022 a small British electric car called the McMurtry Spéirling drove up the Goodwood hill in 39.08 seconds and broke the all-time Festival of Speed record that had stood since 1999. Most of the British press described it as a revolution. Two huge … Read more
Czinger 21C: The Hypercar That’s Really a Rolling Advert Let me ruin the surprise in the first line: the Czinger 21C isn’t a car. Or rather it is, and one of the most savage ever built, but that’s the part that matters least. The 21C is a brochure. An advert on wheels. The most expensive, … Read more
Citroën Hydropneumatics: Changed the Auto Industry Forever The system a self-taught engineer designed in 1954, that Rolls-Royce and Mercedes ended up paying to license, and that Citroën kept in production until 2017 There are three ways to make a car absorb a bump. The first, used by 99 per cent of the world’s automotive fleet: … Read more
Chaparral 2C and 2E: the car that drove the air with its left foot Bridgehampton, Long Island. September 1966. Practice for the second-ever round of the brand-new Can-Am championship. Bruce McLaren walks across the paddock and stops in front of the Chaparral pit. He stares at the white car parked in front of the truck. … Read more
THE INVISIBLE SYMPHONY The engineers who decide how your car sounds (and how it makes you feel) Close your eyes for a second. Think about the last time you shut a car door at a dealership. That firm, deep thud followed by a precise click that told you “this is well built.” That sound that … Read more
Karma Doesn’t Make Cars: Why It Bought a 27-Year-Old Software Company Before Its First Electric Vehicle There’s a sentence Marques McCammon repeats every time someone asks him what Karma Automotive actually is. He doesn’t say “we’re an electric car manufacturer.” He doesn’t say “we compete with Porsche” or “we want to be the next Tesla.” … Read more
Factorial Energy: The Battery That Could Kill Liquid Lithium As You Know It There’s a company in Massachusetts that’s about to rewrite the rules of the electric game. It’s not Tesla. It’s not CATL. It’s not any of the names you see splashed across headlines every week. It’s called Factorial Energy, it was founded by … Read more
