An interview with the designer of the Aston Martin DB9 »

There are too many good quotes to count, but a few that really struck me:

When you are replacing a car, you look at the previous design, and think about - if it was really successful - what do I need to carry over to the new car and reinterpret it and make it more modern, but still so you have the feel that this is the replacement.

I never thought the design process for cars and websites could be similar, but this is the exact issue that successful redesigns of popular sites (amazon.com, msnbc) have to deal with