H-Point: The Fundamentals of Car Design & Packaging

This is a great reference book. But so as to not cause any confusion, this is NOT an instructional guide on how to draw and design cars. It is rather a reference guide filled with info and facts that you should keep in mind when designing cars. If you are looking for a book that has step by step instructions on how to draw cars and perspective, this is not the book you are looking for. If you are already a car designer or a car design student, and want a handy and well thought out reference guide, this is the book for you.

This book is great for artist who have a passion for automotive design and really help for those who plan to make a career in this field. Easy to understand and everything in the book is knowledge that you must know and master.

This book covers all the automotive packaging requirements.It is an excellent guide going through the stages of vehicle engineering.With precise definitions and very good illustrations. This will give the engineering students a good grounding.Even for the established engineer it gives a nice refresher course.Well worth the purchase.

Fundamental book for anyone in automotive design.

A great primer on the fundamentals of Car Design and the use of form and function and style in design

loaded with tons of info. brings to mind alot of items that did not come to mind as part of the process

This book could be named "automotive design 101": it obviously is a textbook from the Transportation Design undergraduate course at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.It does lack some edge on the imagery (and must be corrected with updated EC regulations), but does provide an invaluable insight on the automotive design industry.This is definitely a "how did I live without it" item, and every designer should have it on their bookshelf!

Everything you ever needed to know about Fundamentals of Car Design & Packaging. Does exactly what the title says...so much info. Well worth the money.

Great book

Professional book for car designer to understand the engineering stuff and the inside stuff, packaging and theory understanding, Very useful.

Interessant, wenn man lernen möchte, wie man ein Auto befüllen kann. Also vom Motor, über die Sitze und den gesamten Innenraum bis hin zur Platzierung proportionalen Gestaltung von allem, was Fahrzeuge ausmacht. Es geht hier vor allem um die Proportionen und die Anordnung. Wo setze ich meinen Motor, wieviele sitze sollte er haben und wieviel Platz brauche ich überhaupt im Auto. Eine sehr gute Ergänzung zu anderen Büchern in diese Richtung!

Shows that car design is not about "styling" like a lot of industry captains propagate.Car design is about packaging (see the comments made by Gordon Murray on the back of the book: He is right!).Informative. Clean graphics.What else should I say?

Excellent ouvrage (en anglais) sur les grands principes d'architecture automobile qui expliquent les clés de la conception de nos voitures.