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
The Unimog Was Built to Straddle Two Rows of Potatoes (and Ended Up Crossing Deserts) Jeremy Clarkson once drove a Unimog through a brick wall on Top Gear and seemed genuinely surprised when the wall lost. That’s the Unimog in one image: a vehicle so absurdly overbuilt that demolishing a house feels like a Tuesday. … Read more
IDIADA: Europe’s Best Automotive Lab Hides in Spain, and Even the Spaniards Don’t Talk About It When Chris Harris wants to test a road car at the limit, he heads to the Nürburgring or, if he’s lucky, gets handed the keys at Anglesey. When Top Gear needed a track for Power Laps, they used a … Read more
Vittorio Jano: the engineer who designed the engines that won for Alfa Romeo, Lancia and Ferrari, and whom almost nobody remembers Here’s a question. If you walked into Goodwood next summer, stopped any ten people in the paddock, and asked them to name the most influential engine designer in the history of Italian motorsport, what … Read more
The Engineer Ferrari Tried to Erase There’s a car that regularly sells for over fifty million dollars at auction. It is, by most measures, the most valuable automobile ever made. The man who engineered its engine never saw it win a race. He was fired before it crossed a finish line — handed a sealed … Read more
The three-point seatbelt: Volvo’s most expensive decision and the patent that saved a million lives You’re alive because of a Swede who designed ejection seats Look down. Right now. The strap across your chest, the buckle by your hip, that V-shape that pins you to the seat without breaking your ribs. That’s the work of … Read more
GIANPAOLO DALLARA: THE ENGINEER WHO CHOSE A GARAGE IN PARMA OVER A DESK IN MARANELLO The first note Enzo Ferrari left on his desk read “Più ordinato, per favore.” Tidier, please. Handwritten in the purple ink the Commendatore used for everything. It was December 1959. Gianpaolo Dallara had just left university and just walked into … Read more
Lotus: The Brand That Made Weight the Enemy In May 2026, Lotus CEO Feng Qingfeng sat down at the Financial Times Future of the Car Summit and admitted the strategy that was supposed to conquer the world had hit a wall. His words were that the plan had been aggressive and that the company moved … Read more
