Automotive design journalist Guy Bird, longstanding Car Design News contributing editor and friend, has passed away. A full tribute to the brilliant writer and friend to many will follow soon.

Pierre Leclercq replaces Mark Adams as Opel's head of design. Meanwhile, Sandeep Bhambra takes over at Citroën and DS and Thierry Metroz lands a strategic design role.

Over-digitilisation, dull colour schemes and a reliance on screens have created huge challenges for CMF design. Alfa Romeo's Pascal Dadamo has some thoughts.

A handful of concepts from Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi caught our eye ahead of the SEMA modified car trade show next month.

Car Design News looks at news that may have gone under the radar, including the latest updates from McLaren, Lepas, Skoda and people news.

Automotive historian and TV personality Donald Osbourne says Detroit is firmly on the up, and much of that is down to the automobile.

The once and future Golf? The Volkswagen Futura, introduced at IAA Frankfurt in 1989, was once considered the future of the German marque. The Futura was introduced at the Frankfurt IAA in a metallic teal exterior over a white and fuchsia interior, with jazzy side graphics very much of the time. Its rounded and compact monospace was presented as one possibility of a future Golf.