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 ...

Sulfurous clay was the tool every car designer used, until virtual reality arrived.

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 ...