Even if he's not so much the household name as Stirling Moss or Juan Manuel Fangio, American racecar driver John Fitch is every bit as legendary. We had the rare pleasure of hearing him recount his early days in road racing.

At last month’s New York Auto Show, we had the opportunity to chat with Hans-Dieter Futschik, director of passenger car design at Mercedes-Benz. We grabbed a seat between the new E-class cabriolet and the SLS AMG, and discussed past, present, and future design for the company and the industry as a whole.

Burt Levy is something of a cult icon in the world of road racing, having so far written four novels that peel back the early history of the sport in post-WWII America. He sat down with us recently to discuss his love of European cars and, of course, to pimp his newest novel in the series, called The 200-mph Steamroller.

With almost a year under his belt as the head of BMW Group design, we let Adrian van Hooydonk tell us a little about what's happening not just at BMW design, but also with the future of automotive design as a whole.