This is not usually the image that comes to mind when people hear the words “plug-in hybrid” – but nonetheless, Porsche’s $845,000, 887-combined-horsepower (electric and gasoline motors working in tandem) 918 Spyder is just that. The second plug-in Hybrid Porsche (following the more pedestrian Panamera S E-hybrid), the 918 debuted at Frankfurt in 2013 and was styled by Porsche chief designer Michael Mauer, who has been with the company since 2004. The car went on sale in November, 2013,...

The 50th Anniversary of the Ford Mustang provided Ford with a unique opportunity. As the original Mustang had broken cover at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York (in April of that year), 50 years later celebrations were held in April of 2014 to celebrate the debut of the sixth-generation design. The styling of the new car was penned by Kemal Curić of Ford’s Cologne studio, and then refined under the direction of Ford’s North American styling chief Moray...