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2024 Design News Automotive Year in Photos2024 Design News Automotive Year in Photos
Design News played "Where’s Waldo" in real life during 2024.
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A fall road trip in the Volvo V90 Cross Country included a stop in Lexington, Virginia.Dan Carney
At a Glance
- 25 travel photos from a year's travels testing new cars.
- It includes our first visit to emerging EV tech destination Croatia.
At Design News we travel the globe to bring you the latest automotive technology in first-hand, in-person, behind-the-wheel coverage. It can be exhausting, as my airline frequent flyer account attests, showing 67 flights for the year.
Stamps in the passport this year include familiar connections through Germany’s Frankfurt and Switzerland’s Zurich airports (including the missed connection at ZHR!). There are also Ireland, Italy, France, and Spain this year, plus countless domestic destinations to typical fair-weather driving sites in California, plus visits to Kentucky, Montana, Oregon, and Tennesee.
The year started with the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the CES show, but no one wants to see photos of the inside of the Vegas Convention Center.
The result is an array of photos from far-flung locales, so we thought we’d share them in this end-of-the-year slide show. Click through for a look at some cool pictures from some impressive destinations.
About the Author
Dan’s coverage of the auto industry over three decades has taken him to the racetracks, automotive engineering centers, vehicle simulators, wind tunnels, and crash-test labs of the world.
A member of the North American Car, Truck, and Utility of the Year jury, Dan also contributes car reviews to Popular Science magazine, serves on the International Engine of the Year jury, and has judged the collegiate Formula SAE competition.
Dan is a winner of the International Motor Press Association's Ken Purdy Award for automotive writing, as well as the National Motorsports Press Association's award for magazine writing and the Washington Automotive Press Association's Golden Quill award.
Dan, testing the 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish. ANDY MORGAN/ASTON MARTIN
He has held a Sports Car Club of America racing license since 1991, is an SCCA National race winner, two-time SCCA Runoffs competitor in Formula F, and an Old Dominion Region Driver of the Year award winner. Co-drove a Ford Focus 1.0-liter EcoBoost to 16 Federation Internationale de l’Automobile-accredited world speed records over distances from just under 1km to over 4,104km at the CERAM test circuit in Mortefontaine, France.
He was also a longtime contributor to the Society of Automotive Engineers' Automotive Engineering International magazine.
He specializes in analyzing technical developments, particularly in the areas of motorsports, efficiency, and safety.
He has been published in The New York Times, NBC News, Motor Trend, Popular Mechanics, The Washington Post, Hagerty, AutoTrader.com, Maxim, RaceCar Engineering, AutoWeek, Virginia Living, and others.
Dan has authored books on the Honda S2000 and Dodge Viper sports cars and contributed automotive content to the consumer finance book, Fight For Your Money.
He is a member and past president of the Washington Automotive Press Association and is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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