Last month we sat down with Land Rover's chief of design, Gerry McGovern, to discuss the DC100 Concept. He opens up about the next Defender's mission and how it fits into a 21st-century marketplace while retaining Land Rover's most core values.

Last month Dr. Kay Segler, the head of BMW's M division, dropped in on BMWCCA's O'Fest.The personable Dr. Kay sat down with us to answer a few questions about the brand he's in charge of running, and he couldn't stop talking about the new M5 and the upcoming 1 M coupe.

Saab’s young new designer sat down with us at the recent 9-5 launch event and shared his passion for the business. We asked him about his influences, his goals, and since he’s a New Yorker, about when he’s going to get Seinfeld back into a Saab convertible.

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.