hello mate, car design was originally the route i was trying to take while i was doin my A-levels, but from what i've researched and looked into, its very hard to get into.

You can do specific automotive design courses at uni, one of the ones i looked at was a 6 year course in coventry. I decided that another 6 years of studying would make me go insane, so i've now gone down the product design route taking a computer aided product design course at uni. Its only a 3 year course and is all coursework based on projects so i don't even have any exams!

I've just finished my 1st year and you get taught how to use photoshop, illustrator, flash, and autodesk inventor for producing outcomes for the different projects. I even used some images of cars that i'd photoshopped in one of the projects so you can still make the link with that side of things.

I would definetly recommend you look into this kind of course and it isn't even hard to get into! I took Technology, Geography and Art at A-level and got all D's! now im doin this course, i've been gettin A-C's in my projects so its lookin quite good! Another thing you've got to remember is these days, employers especially in the design industry are really looking for degrees and well produced portfolio's, so getting a degree under your belt would put you in a very good position.

Hope this helps anywany

Also, here are a few screen shots of my skateboard project (exactly to scale), considering i'd only been using Autodesk for 5 weeks i think it turned out quite well!