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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is how real men dispose of meticulously crafted clay models of cars. When the model isn't needed any more, the lads in England put it out of its misery with some bigass axes. If Chuck Norris were ...

Next year will see the launch of the McLaren P1, the spiritual successor to a supercar that turned the performance car world on its head when it was launched more than two decades ago, and which to ...