During the golden era of muscle cars, various manufacturers employed cartoon mascots as a marketing strategy to capture the ...

“The Jetsons” had a brief run as a prime-time cartoon in 1962-63, but the futuristic family’s flying car made a lasting impression, rating No. 1 as the favorite cartoon car for American adults. A ...

Cartoon cars are great, because they don’t let insignificant things like physics and law enforcement stop them. The greatest cartoon cars can do things that would be impossible in the real world. We’d ...

Normally, I wouldn't want to bring up something of this gravity during the holidays, but I have to take a firm stand on an issue that's been bothering me for a long while. I've sat by long enough and ...

This charming little 1956 cartoon commissioned by the Automobile Manufacturers Association is interesting because it seems to have, at least according to some sources, lead to the development of the ...

From self-driving cars that need supervision to AIs that think they're philosophers, Jerry King's cartoons remind us that ...

NASCAR engineer Seth Dillard uses real-world aerodynamics software to prove Lightning McQueen's smile is actually a drag.

Adulting is boring. There are just so many rules: Get to work on time, pay your taxes, don’t cry when Mufasa dies. It’s enough to make you long for the simplicity of Saturday mornings as a kid, when ...

Auto design today seems to be about where architecture was 20 years ago. The clean functionalism that loosely dominated for so many years—when it was clear what a beautiful car looked like (namely ...

Felix the Cat reigned over the silver screen years before he found his way to a Figueroa Street car dealership. Created in 1919 by artist Otto Messmer, the animated cartoon character even predated ...