Interview: McLaren Automotive Chief Designer Robert Melville

The designer speaks about function, aerodynamics and experimentation

by Michael Frank McLaren is a race car company that has slowly morphed into making cars for consumers. The present-day voices behind the iconic British brand might shed a softer light on this transition, but like Ferrari before it, the driving force for McLaren until recently was Formula One racing. The cars for the street were there to finance racing, period. However the production cars …

Paul Smith Upgrades Land Rover’s Defender

British designer Paul Smith has teamed up with Land Rover to create a one-of-a-kind Defender as production of the iconic car enters its final months. Smith reimagines the 4×4 vehicle with rich color-blocked hues, a pop of yellow and a hand-painted bumblebee on the roof. The interior is also given an upgrade with a mix of leather and a specialty fabric originally made for Mahram, …

Test Drive: The All-New 2016 Volvo XC90

The highly capable seven-seater SUV draws on Scandinavian design heritage and delivers on expectations

An hour outside of Barcelona in a sleepy seaside town that only sees action a few months of the year sits the culmination of an $11 billion dollar investment. Volvo‘s 2016 XC90 is the product of not just the global investment that came from Chinese automotive firm Zhejiang Geely Holdings, in many ways it’s a consummation of Swedish design ethos in car form. The Gothenburg-based …