Hood designs on cars today can make it easy for them to stand out. They're so iconic that it doesn't take a double-take for most drivers to recognize them. Back in the day, placing shaker hoods was ...

Larry Shinoda designed the first production shaker hood for the 1969 Ford Mustang 428 Super Cobra Jet, but the shaker hood option on the Super Cobra Jet wasn’t called “shaker,” it was called Ram Air. ...

As far back as the 1920s, certain models of car have had distinctive hood ornaments. In the olden days, hood ornaments were used to cover up the jutting point of a car's radiator cap with something a ...

The hood scoop, a key piece of automotive design for the last 70 or so years, does more than just look cool. It helps performance cars, from Subaru WRXs to Ram TRXs, go faster and run cooler. But in ...

Some muscle cars have hood pins, but they're not there just because they look snazzy. Back in the muscle car heyday of the late 1960s and earyly '70s, many of these cars could generate enough lift at ...