Aaron Betsky introduces Tom Matano, a car designer at Mazda. Matano presents his work from early student projects at Art Center to later projects developed for Mazda. Matano discusses his passion for cars and his role in the development of the sports model Miata for Mazda. He goes on to describe the cultural differences of designing cars for America and Japan and gives a demonstration on the scientific ways of designing a car, by looking at weight distribution and composition examples.