Automobile Design

• To design a car it usually takes about 3 years, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. The phase they usually start off with is the sketching phase.  The sketching phase is just them drawing a bunch of different pictures of the car. 

•  Design is called problem solving because the people have fine arts degrees, but what they are doing isn't fine arts. They have criteria that they need to meet and draw their design based on it. It is essentially solving a problem. 

•  The feasibility stage is when the workers need to put the sketches on a "package" and match them up with something that maintains the theme. This is the biggest stage.

•  I think that designing an automobile would interest me more than the other jobs in the automotive industry, such as automotive technicians, but I don't really think it would be my first job choice considering I don't really care how my car is made as long as it runs and it works good.  Designing an automobile might be fun but like I said it doesn't interest me that much to be considered a "dream job" or anything.