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 ...

Despite the dominance of digital tools in modern engineering, leading automakers continue to craft full-scale clay models for new vehicle designs. This labor-intensive tradition, still prevalent in ...

Nio has completed the two-dimensional sketches of the first model under one of its forthcoming entry-level brands, codenamed Firefly, and will start making scale models in clay as early as August, ...

Ford is celebrating the grand opening of its new world headquarters. The new facility encompasses 2.1 million square feet of space and will house 4,000 employees when it's fully completed in 2027. To ...

A lot of people are obsessed with scale-model restoration projects but also enjoy watching crash tests of vehicles, but what happens if you combine a painstaking creation process with destruction? A ...

Last Sunday, Ford made its official announcement about the grand opening of its new world headquarters. Which is great and all for everyone who works there ... but more interesting than the building ...

John Neff is a veteran automotive journalist with over two decades of experience leading major outlets such as Autoblog and Motor1. Beginning his career as Editor-in-Chief of Speed, Style & Sound, he ...