Dammit Maverick will you get up here?

Notice the name on the sketch: current head of GM Design Ed Welburn.

A scholar and a gentleman, I thank you sir :)

Only the fact that a full English breakfast is best enjoyed with a hangover of apocalyptic proportions. Other than that, you're spot on :D

Ummm, I'm from the UK and I *love* grits when I can have them. Which is pretty much only when I travel to the US. What is my status vis-a-vis treason? I don't have a red jacket or anything.

Practice sketching first and foremost - you should be sketching every day (a couple of hours if possible, but I've got to be honest I don't always manage this). Start to learn the various proportions of a car and the relationships between the parts - a key example would be the relationship between where the A pillar…

I'm clearly not Chip Foose, but if it helps I'm 40 and currently studying to be a car designer (I'm doing a degree at Coventry in the UK)….

It's a touch long but it's not far off - maybe half a wheel. It's low though. Designer's artistic licence :)

"I counted them all out, and I counted them all back again…"

A old story I heard for the first time recently: back in the day when David Brown himself was in charge, an acquaintance of his asked him if he could do him a special favour as a friend, and let him have a DB6 'at cost'. David Brown, ever the British gentleman said this would pose no problem and promptly invoiced his…

Have you seen this?

I would counter that even a budget SLR with the kit lens would give you much, much better results than a phone camera. I'm would not consider myself even a hobbyist photographer, but I can compose and frame a good shot and with my Canon 650D (about £450) would get better results than those posted above.

Excellent ta! In the dim corners of the car encyclopaedia that resides in my mind I knew there was a Corvair pick-up & van, but I had no idea they came with that nifty side ramp.

Is that actually a thing or is it custom?

You know why they do it?

A Renegade you say?

They have the internet on computers now.

You're right in that the TT isn't iconic (and probably never will be - it's a little too soulless) but the original design is held up rightly as a classic. It is undoubtedly a design of it's time (although I wouldn't call it Art Deco - not decorative enough. It's more Bauhaus with it's plain geometric forms and sheer…

Hmph. I'd still be stuck in a flying death tube with 200 other members of the great unwashed, spreading their germs and poor taste. And I still wouldn't be able to smoke, Dreamliner or Shitliner.