While digital innovations have sped up processes throughout the automotive manufacturing cycle, some things are better when done the old-school way. Case in point: clay modeling. CAD drawings are ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Every automobile you've ever seen once started as a full-size carefully sculpted clay model. Constructing these models can cost automakers hundreds of ...

Depending on who you ask, talking about car companies making clay models during the designing process will elicit either an "I'm sorry, what?" or "Well of course." Sculpting facsimiles of in-progress ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The automotive industry moves fast. It wasn't all that long ago that diesel was being peddled as the next big thing. Then, just a ...

For almost 100 years, car companies have been using clay models in the design process of automobile development, but with all the technology available to them now, why do they still employ the ...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — In an era of computer-aided design and 3-D printing, one traditional craft remains in automakers' design studios: Full-size clay models. For 80 years, clay modelers have used ...

Ford announced it is now recycling almost 2,300kg of its modeling clay each year. Despite digital design technology, the automaker still builds full-size clay models of its vehicles. "We are ...

Toyota has shared with us a collection of early sketches and clay models from the GR Supra development shedding some light in the lengthy process of designing a sportscar. The Japanese automaker also ...

In an era of computer-aided design and 3-D printing, one traditional craft remains in automakers’ design studios: full-size clay models. For 80 years, clay modelers have used their hands and tools to ...