July 21, 2008 www.autonewseurope.com Design 2008 Who’s who in European automotive design Thousands of men and women have had their hands on the cars we are driving today. They have created eye-pleas- ing winners such as the Fiat 500, Nissan Qashqai and Audi TT, but they also have given us flops such as the Peugeot 1007, Jaguar X-Type and Renault Modus. Regardless of whether their last cars were winners or losers, Europe’s top stylists are at work on what they hope will be their next masterpieces. Below is a comprehensive list of the industry’s top designers and where they are doing their work. ASTON MARTIN Advanced Design Sindelfingen Studio: JOHNSON CONTROLS Marek Reichman, design director Dept DE/APS, HPC X805 Merkenich Design Center Andreas Maashoff, design director industrial 71059 Sindelfingen, Germany John Andrews Entwicklungszentrum design & craftsmanship Europe Senior manager: Andreas Langenbeck Spessartstrasse Studio: 50725 Cologne, Germany Studio: Banbury Road, Gaydon, Largo Spluga, 1 Industrial Design Studio Europe Gaydon, Warwickshire CV35 0DB, UK 22100 Como, Italy Johnson Controls Studio director: Michele Jauch-Paganetti HEULIEZ Automotive Experience Alain Masquelet, research and development director European Headquarters AUDI 17742 Cowan Street Industriestrasse 20-30 Wolfgang Egger, head of Audi group design Irvine, California 92614, USA Jean-Marc Guillez, advanced engineering director 51399 Burscheid, Germany Studio director: Gorden Wagener Stefan Sielaff, head of Audi design Studio: Studios: Advanced Design Center of Japan Heuliez SA, R&D Center KARMANN Audi Design I/ED 1-17 Chigasakiminami 2-Chome 79140 Le Pin, France Jörg Steuernagel, executive director, design studio 85045 Ingolstadt, Germany Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 224-0037, Japan Other senior managers: Design Center California Studio director: Olivier Boulay HONDA MOTOR EUROPE Marian Dziubiel, deputy studio head, manager 2772 Donald Douglas Loop exterior/interior Santa Monica, California 90405, USA Studios: Jutta Sommer, head of color and trim EDAG Honda R&D Europe Johannes Barckmann, head of design Carl-Legien-Strasse 30 Studio: BENTLEY MOTORS 63073 Offenbach, Germany designStudio Wilhelm Karmann Dirk van Braeckel, Director – Design & Styling Studio: Director: Masaki Kobayashi Karmannstrasse 1 EDAG Design Studio 49984 Osnabrück, Germany Other senior managers: Reesbergstr. 1 Honda R&D Co. Ltd. Raul Pires, manager – exterior design 36039 Fulda, Germany Wako R&D Center Robin Page, manager – interior design Tokyo Studio KIA 33 F Jzumi Garden Tower Peter Schreyer, senior executive vice president Studio: 1-6-1 Roppongi Mineto-ku, Tokyo FERRARI and chief design officer Bentley Motors Limited Donato Coco, design director 106-6033 Japan Pyms Lane Studio: Crewe, Cheshire CW1 3PL, UK Studio: Honda R&D North America Kia Motors Corp. Ferrari 1900 Harpers Way Theodor-Heuss. Allee 11 Via Abetone Inferiore, 4 Torrance, California 90501, USA 60486 Frankfurt, Germany BMW Group 40153 Maranello (MO), Italy Chris Bangle, director design, BMW Group HYUNDAI MOTOR EUROPE LAMBORGHINI Other senior managers: FIAT GROUP AUTOMOBILES Thomas Buerkle, European chief designer Manfred Fitzgerald, director of brand and design Adrian van Hooydonk, director design, BMW cars Lorenzo Ramaciotti, vice president style (incl. M and individual cars) Other senior manager: Filippo Perini, chief designer Gert Hildebrand, director design, Mini Studios: Byung-Seob Lee, European chief coordinator Ian Cameron, director design, Rolls-Royce Officina 83 Studio: David Robb, director design, BMW motorcycle Via Plava 80 Studio: Centro Stile Automobili Lamborghini Anders Warming, chief exterior designer, BMW cars 10135 Turin, Italy Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Centre Via Modena, 12 Verena Kloos, president, BMW Group Designworks- Hyundai-Platz 40019 Sant'Agata Bolognese (BO),Italy USA Other senior managers: Marie-Curie-Strasse 2 Roberto Giolito, studio director, Fiat passenger cars 65428 Rüsselsheim, Germany Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum Peter Jansen, studio director, Fiat Professional LAND ROVER (Research and Innovation Center) (LCVs) Gerry McGovern, design director Knorrstrasse 147 Marco Tencone, studio director, Lancia: I.DE.A. INSTITUTE 80788 Munich, Germany Lorenzo Ramaciotti, studio director, Maserati Umberto Palermo, design director Other senior managers: Rossella Guasco, color and material director Phil Simmons, studio director, Range Rover products BMW Group DesignworksUSA Studio: David Saddington, studio director, Land Rover 2201 Corporate Center Drive Centro Stile Alfa Romeo I.DE.A. Institute SpA Mark Butler, Land Rover interior design manager Newbury Park, CA 91320, USA Viale Luraghi Strada del Portone, 61 Julian Thomson, studio director, advanced design 20020 Arese, Milan, Italy 10137, Turin, Italy (also for Jaguar) Studio director: Christopher Reitz CITROEN Studio: Jean-Pierre Ploue, design director Citroen Centro Estilo Fiat Automóveis S.A. ITALDESIGN GIUGIARO Design, G-DEC Land Rover Rodovia Fernão Dias, km 429 Giorgetto Giugiaro, chairman Banbury Road, Lighthorne Other senior managers: CEP 32530-000,Betim Warwick CV 35 0RR, UK Gilles Vidal, advanced design manager Mina Gerais, Brazil Fabrizio Giugiaro, styling area director Carlo Bonzanigo, design cooperation director & Studio director: Peter Fassbender head of concept-cars Studio: LOTUS Mark Lloyd, chief designer Italdesign Giugiaro SpA Russell Carr, head of design Alexandre Malval, chief designer FIORAVANTI Via Achille Grandi, 25 Marc Pinson, chief designer Senior design executives: 10024 Moncalieri(TO), Italy Steve Crijns, design manager John Statham, design manager Studio: Leonardo and Matteo Fioravanti DP/STYC – Case Courrier 500 Studio: JAGUAR Studio: 2, route de Gisy Fioravanti Srl Ian Callum, director of design Group Lotus plc 78943 Velizy Villacoublay Cedex P.zza Vittorio Emanuele 4 Potash Lane, Hethel, Norfolk 10024 Moncalieri (TO), Italy Other senior design managers: NR14 8EZ, UK Giles Taylor, senior design manager DAIMLER (includes Maybach, Smart) Wayne Burgess, chief designer Peter Pfeiffer, senior vice president of design; FORD OF EUROPE Kim Challinor, manager, color and trim MAGNA STEYR Martin Smith, executive design director Julian Thomson, studio director, advanced design Andreas Wolfsgruber, head of styling head of design, Mercedes-Benz Cars (will be (also for Land Rover) replaced later this year by Gorden Wagener) Other senior managers: Studio: Chris Bird, director design, operations and integration Studios: Styling Studio Europe, Magna Steyr Other senior managers: Terry Wolkind, business and operations manager Jaguar Cars Liebenauer Hauptstrasse 317 Karlheinz Bauer, director of design, program Stefan Lamm, chief designer, exterior design Engineering Centre 8041 Graz, Austria management and operations Claudio Messale, chief designer, exterior execution Design Studio (W/3/026), Abbey Road Hans-Dieter Futschik, director of design, draft and feasibility Whitley, Coventry CV3 4LF, UK exterior and interior Nikolaus Vidakovic, global chief designer, interior MAZDA Gerhard Honer, director of design, commercial vehicles design Design, G-DEC Land Rover Laurens van den Acker, general manager, design Gorden Wagener, director of corporate design and Ernst Reim, chief designer, interior design Ford of Banbury Road, Lighthorne advanced projects Europe Warwick CV 35 0RR, UK division Ruth Pauli, chief designer, color and materials Studios: July 21, 2008 www.autonewseurope.com Design 2008 Other senior managers: Other senior manager: Apartado de Correos 91 Leafield Technical Centre Peter Birtwhistle, chief designer, Mazda Motor Keith Ryder, design director, Peugeot production cars 08760 Martorell, Spain Langley, Witney, Oxfordshire Europe Jean-Christophe Bolle Reddat, manager, Peugeot OX29 9EF, UK Atsushi Yamada, chief designer, manager advance concept cars design group, Mazda R&D Center (Yokohama) SKODA Franz von Holzhausen, director of design, Mazda Studio: Jozef Kaban, head of design center VALMET North American DP/STYP Aimo Ahlman, vice president, product engineering 2, route de Gisy Other senior managers: Studios: 78943 Velizy Villacoublay Cedex Frank Schäfer, head of interior Studio: Mazda Motor Corporation Karl Neuhold, head of exterior Valmet Automotive Technical Center Head Office R&D Divisions Radek Simon, head of styling and surfacing PO Box 4, FIN 23501, 3-1 Shinchi, Fuchu-cho PININFARINA Autotehtaankatu 14 Aki-gun Hiroshima 730-8670 Lowie Vermeersch, design director Studio: 23500 Uusikaupunki, Finland Japan Skoda Auto Design Guglielmo Cartia, deputy design director Vaclava Klementa 869 Mazda Motor Corporation Fabrizio Valentini, deputy design director 293 60 Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic VOLKSWAGEN Mazda R&D Center (Yokohama) Walter de’ Silva, head of group design 2-5 Moriya-cho Kanagawa-ku Yokohama-shi Other senior managers: Kanagawa-ken 221-0022 Goran Popovic, chief designer STILE BERTONE Other senior manager: Japan Giuseppe Randazzo, chief designer David Wilkie, design director Flavio Manzoni, head of group creative design Jason Castrista, chief designer Mazda Motor Europe GmbH Giovanni Piccare, chief designer Studio: Studios: European R&D Centre Alfredo Palma, chief designer Stile Bertone Volkswagen Design Center Hiroshimastrasse 1 Via Roma 1 Brieffach 1683 61440 Oberursel Studio: 10040 Caprie (TO), Italy 38436 Wolfsburg, Germany Germany Pininfarina SpA Strada Nazionale 30, Volkswagen Design Center Potsdam Mazda North American Operations 10020 Cambiano (TO), Italy TORINO DESIGN Schiffbauergasse 17 1422 Reynolds