General Motors hasn't had the easiest time developing autonomous vehicles. It pulled the plug on the Cruise startup it ...

Harley J. Earl joined GM in 1928 and became head of the General Motors Design team, retiring in 1958. His designs in the ’50s at the Motorama tours are what brought the Corvette to the attention ...

The XP-74 was Harley Earl’s last gasp, his final “dream car” before retiring and turning the candy-store keys over to Bill Mitchell. Alfred P. Sloan hired Earl, GM’s first design chief, in ...

As you may or may not know, Buick was responsible for the very first concept car. Called Y-Job, the gorgeous one-off designed by Harley J. Earl made its public debut in 1939, showcasing the ...

The concept car was born in the US back in 1938 when Buick introduced the Harley J. Earl-designed Y-Job.. In the following decades, these show cars (or dream cars, as they were often called ...

The car, shockingly heavy, looks futuristic even though the late Harley J. Earl, GM‘s head of design who also designed the Corvette, created it in 1954.

GM Advanced Design California is an eight-acre, 150,000-square-foot, $71 million attempt to make GM cars among the coolest in the world. If they can’t do it here, they won’t be able to blame ...

Object Details author Knoedelseder, William 1947-Subject Earl, Harley General Motors Corporation History Contents Pioneers -- Hollywood and Harley -- The competitors -- The Cadillac Kid -- ...

General Motors has had a design presence in California in one form or another almost since Harley Earl was born in Hollywood. Most recently GM maintained a design studio in North Hollywood ...