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| x Larry Shinoda |
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Chevrolet Corvette C2 |
Lawrence Kiyoshi (Larry) Shinoda (March 25, 1930 – November 13, 1997) was a noted automotive designer who was best known for his work on the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Mustang.
Shinoda was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Southern...
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| First Generation Ford Mustang | |||
| x Lee Iacocca |
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First Generation Ford Mustang |
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca ( /ˌaɪ.əˈkoʊkə/ EYE-ə-KOH-kə; born October 15, 1924) is an American businessman known for engineering the Mustang, the unsuccessful Ford Pinto, being fired from Ford Motor Company, and his revival of the Chrysler...
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| x Zora Arkus-Duntov |
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Chevrolet Corvette C1 |
Zora Arkus-Duntov (December 25, 1909 – April 21, 1996) was a Belgian-born American engineer. His work on the Chevrolet Corvette earned him the nickname "Father of the Corvette."
Zora was born Zachary Arkus in Belgium on Christmas Day, 1909. His...
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| x Harley Earl |
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Chevrolet Corvette C1 |
Harley J. Earl (November 22, 1893 – April 10, 1969) was first Vice President of Design at General Motors. He was an industrial designer and a pioneer of modern transportation design. A coachbuilder by trade, Earl pioneered the use of freeform...
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| x Raymond Loewy | 1961-1964 Studebaker Avanti |
Raymond Loewy (November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was an industrial designer, and the first to be featured on the cover of Time magazine, on October 31, 1949. Born in France, he spent most of his professional career in the United States. Among his...
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| x Carroll Shelby |
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First Generation Dodge Viper |
Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) was an American automotive designer, racing driver and entrepreneur. He was most well known for making the AC Motors-based Shelby American Cobra and later the Mustang-based performance cars for...
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| 2007-present Shelby GT500 | |||
| 1967-1970 Shelby GT500 | |||
| x John DeLorean | Second Generation Pontiac GTO |
John Zachary DeLorean (January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company.
He was best known for developing the...
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| First Generation Pontiac GTO | |||
| x Patrick Schiavone | Eleventh Generation Ford F-150 |
Patrick Schiavone is currently Vice President, Design, North America Region for Whirlpool Corporation. Patrick was formerly an automobile designer, in charge of trucks for North America at Ford Motor Company. Schiavone previously oversaw North...
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| First Generation Ford Focus | |||
| Fourth Generation Ford Mustang | |||
| x Jack Telnack | First Generation Ford Taurus |
Jack Telnack (born John J. Telnack in 1937) is the former global Vice President of Design of the Ford Motor Company from 1980 to 1997. After his training at the Art Center College of Design, Telnack began working as a designer for Ford in 1958, and...
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| First Generation Mercury Topaz | |||
| Third Generation Ford Mustang | |||
| x Albrecht von Goertz |
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The First Generation (S30): 240Z, 260Z, 280Z |
Albrecht Graf von Schlitz genannt von Gortz von Wrisburg (en: Count Albrecht von Goertz, known universally as Albrecht Goertz) (January 12, 1914 - October 27, 2006) was a German who designed cars for BMW including the BMW 503 and BMW 507.
He was...
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| x Sven-Harry Åkesson |
Sven-Harry Åkesson, born March 12, 1940, is an automobile designer from Sweden. His first car was built in 1959 as a Formula Junior racer, but after a while he came to the conclusion that it was going to be too heavy so he abandoned the build. In...
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| x Helene Rother |
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Helene Rother (1908–1999) was the first woman to work as an automotive designer when she joined the interior styling staff of General Motors in Detroit in 1943. She specialized in designs for automotive interiors, as well as furniture, jewelry,...
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| x Bryan Nesbitt |
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Bryan Nesbitt is an automobile designer and currently head of General Motors Corporation International Operations Design, based in Shanghai, China. Nesbitt is also brand chairman for Wuling and Baojun, two automakers with which G.M. joint ventures....
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| x Wayne Cherry |
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Wayne K Cherry (born 1937) is a noted American car designer is responsible for the conversion of Opel-style lines into the British Vauxhall or American counterparts for General Motors.
Cherry was one of twenty-five nominees for the 1999 Car Designer...
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| x Franz von Holzhausen |
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Franz von Holzhausen (born May 10, 1968 in Simsbury, Connecticut) is an automobile designer, currently in charge of design at Tesla Motors after resigning his position at Mazda North American Operations on July 31, 2008.
He designed the Tesla Model...
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| x Edmund E. Anderson |
Edmund E. Anderson (April 29, 1906 – October 23, 1989) was an industrial designer in the North American automotive industry, notably as the lead designer for American Motors Corporation (AMC) from 1950 to 1961. He was born in Boston. Anderson also...
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| x Koichi Hayashi | NA | ||
| x Tom Matano | NA | ||
| x Bob Hall | NA | ||
| x Bill Mitchell | Chevrolet Corvette C2 |
William L. "Bill" Mitchell (July 2, 1912 Cleveland, Ohio — September 12, 1988 Royal Oak, Michigan) was an American automobile designer. Mitchell worked briefly as an advertising illustrator and as the official illustrator of the Automobile Racing...
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| x Audi |
Audi AG (help·info) (FWB: NSU) is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand (German pronunciation: [ˈaʊdi]), positioned as the premium brand...
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| x Mercedes-Benz |
Mercedes-Benz (German pronunciation: [mɛʁˈtseːdəs ˈbɛnts]) is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is a division of its parent company, Daimler AG. The name first appeared in 1926 but traces its origins to...
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| x Buckminster Fuller |
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Dymaxion car |
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as ...
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| x Pierre-Jules Boulanger | Citroën 2CV |
Pierre-Jules Boulanger, often known simply as Pierre Boulanger (10 March 1885, Sin-le-Noble, Nord - 11 November 1950) was a French engineer and businessman. He directed Citroën as a vice-president and as chairman from 1935 until his death in a car...
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| x William Chambers |
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Gold State Coach |
Sir William Chambers (23 February 1723 – 10 March 1796) was a Scottish architect, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his father was a merchant. Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making three voyages to China...
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| x Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
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Gold State Coach |
Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence1727 – Hammersmith 1785), was an Italian painter and engraver, who lived in England from 1755. Much of his work consisted of designs for prints, many of which were engraved by his friend Francesco Bartolozzi....
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| x Claude Lobo |
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Ford Ka Mark I |
Claude Lobo (*20 August 1943, †3 June 2011) served in various design positions at Ford Motor Company over 32 years, playing a prominent role in designing Ford automobiles including the Ford Capri (Mk I), Mercury Cougar (Mk VII), Ford Ka (Mk I) and...
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| Mercury Cougar Mark VII | |||
| Ford Capri Mark I | |||
| Ford Focus Mark I | |||
| x John Doughty | Ford Focus Mark I | ||
| x Alec Issigonis |
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Austin Maxi |
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (18 November 1906–2 October 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor...
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| Morris Mini Minor | |||
| x Luigi Segre | Renault Dauphine |
Luigi "Gigi" Segre (1919–1963) was an Italian automotive designer and engineer, leading the Carrozzeria Ghia from 1953, when Mario Boano left, until his death in 1963, from complications during surgery.
Segre was widely known for styling the Karmann...
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| x Giorgetto Giugiaro |
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De Tomaso Mangusta |
Giorgetto Giugiaro (born 7 August 1938) is an Italian automobile designer responsible equally for a stable of supercars and several of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today. He was born in Garessio, Cuneo, Piedmont.
Giugiaro was named Car...
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| Scirocco II | |||
| Volkswagen Passat B1 | |||
| x Ettore Bugatti |
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Peugeot Bébé |
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881, Milan – 21 August 1947, Paris) was an Italian-born and French naturalized citizen automobile designer and manufacturer.
Ettore was from a notably artistic family with its origin in Milan. He was the...
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| Bugatti Type 30 | |||
| x Jean Bugatti |
Jean Bugatti (15 January 1909 – 11 August 1939) was an French/Italian automotive designer and test engineer.
Born Gianoberto Maria Carlo Bugatti in Cologne, Germany, he was the eldest son of Ettore Bugatti. Soon after his birth the family moved to...
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| x Herbert Austin | Austin 12/4 |
Herbert 'Pa' Austin, 1st Baron Austin KBE (8 November 1866 – 23 May 1941) was an English automobile designer and builder who founded the Austin Motor Company.
The son of a farmer, he was born in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire in South East...
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| Austin 7 | |||
| x Ferdinand Porsche |
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Tiger I |
Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He is best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle (gasoline-electric), the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Mercedes...
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| Tiger II | |||
| Austro-Daimler Prince Henry | |||
| x Granville Bradshaw | Belsize BB |
Granville Eastwood Bradshaw OBE, AFRAeS (1887–1969) was an English engineer and inventor who designed motorcycle and aero-engines.
Bradshaw was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1887 as the son of William and Annie Bradshaw. His father was a jeweler...
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| x Giovanni Battista Ceirano |
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Ceirano S 150 |
Giovanni Battista Ceirano (1860–1912) was an Italian entrepreneur and car pioneer. Born in Cuneo in 1860, Ceirano is the eldest of three brothers who were pioneers of the Italian car industry. At the age of twenty, devoured by the "sacred fire of...
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| x Gordon Buehrig |
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Stutz Black Hawks |
Gordon Miller Buehrig (B-yur-rig) (June 18, 1904 – January 22, 1990) was a noted automobile designer. Born in Mason City, Illinois, he had early design experience with Packard, General Motors and Stutz. In 1929, he was responsible for designing the...
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| Continental Mark II | |||
| Auburn 851S | |||
| x Augustus C Bertelli |
Considered as the father of Aston Martin
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| x Marc Birkigt |
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Hispano-Suiza J12 |
Marc Birkigt (1878 – 1953) was a Swiss engineer who moved to Barcelona, Spain when he was hired as an engineer by Emilio de la Cuadra, founder of Hispano-Suiza automobiles. He created the Dewoitine company along with Émile Dewoitine. Birkigt was...
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| x Frederick Lanchester |
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Frederick William Lanchester, Hon FRAeS FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946) was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research.
He was also...
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| x J.G. Parry-Thomas |
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Leyland Eight |
John Godfrey Parry-Thomas (6 April 1884 – 3 March 1927) was a Welsh engineer and motor-racing driver who at one time held the Land Speed Record. He was the first driver to be killed in pursuit of the land speed record.
Parry-Thomas was born in...
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| x Reid Railton | Leyland Eight |
Reid A. Railton (1895 – 1977) was a British automotive engineer, and designer of land and water speed record vehicles.
Reid Antony Railton was the son of a Manchester stockbroker and was educated at Rugby School and Manchester University. He joined...
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| x W. O. Bentley |
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Walter Owen Bentley, MBE (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971) engineer; designer of aero engines, designer and racer of motor cars, founder of Bentley Motors Limited in Cricklewood near London.
He was known as "W.O." without any need to add the word...
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| x Ransom E. Olds |
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Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894, and his first gasoline powered...
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| x Louis Renault |
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Renault FT-17 tank |
Louis Renault (French pronunciation: [ʁəno]; February 12, 1877 – October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and a pioneer of the automobile industry.
Renault built one of France's largest automobile manufacturing...
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| x Gordon Bashford | |||
| x Louis Coatalen |
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Sunbeam V 12 |
Louis Hervé Coatalen (11 September 1879 – 23 May 1962) was a Breton automobile engineer.
Coatalen was born in the Breton fishing town of Concarneau and went on to study engineering at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers at Cluny (France).
After working...
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| x Georges Roesch | Talbot 12/30 |
Roesch, Georges (born Geneva 15 April 1891: died 7 November 1969) was a Swiss-born automotive engineer. At 25, he was hired by the London firm of Clément-Talbot in 1916 as Chief Engineer. In 1919 Talbot was acquired by Darracq, and the following...
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| Talbot 110 Speed Tourer | |||
| Rootes Sunbeam Thirty | |||
| x Laurence Pomeroy | Vauxhaull Velox |
Laurence Henry Pomeroy (1883-1941) was an English automotive engineer.
Laurence Pomeroy was born in London and after leaving school served as an apprentice with the North London Railway Company. From there he became a draughtsman with Thornycroft in...
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| x Karl Benz |
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Karl Friedrich Benz (help·info) (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the...
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| x René Panhard |
Louis François René Panhard (27 May 1841, Paris - 16 July 1908 La Bourboule, dept. Puy-de-Dôme) was a French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France.
Having graduated from École Centrale Paris, he was employed by Jean...
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| x Fritz Fiedler |
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Fritz Fiedler (born Potsdam 9 January 1899: died Schliersee 8 July 1972), a qualified engineer, joined the BMW firm in 1932 as chief designer at the age of 32 after working for Horch, designed 8-cylinder and 12-cylinder cars. Working with Fiedler...
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| x Battista Farina |
Battista "Pinin" Farina (later Battista Pininfarina) (2 November 1893 - 3 April 1966) was an Italian automobile designer, the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many of the best-known postwar sports...
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| x Colin Chapman |
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Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an influential English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars.
He studied structural engineering at University College London,...
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| x Camille Jenatzy |
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Jamais Contente |
Camille Jenatzy (1868, Schaerbeek – 8 December 1913, Habay la Neuve) was a Belgian race car driver. He is known for breaking the land speed record three times and being the first man to break the 100 km/h barrier. He was nicknamed Le Diable Rouge (...
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| x Elio Zagato | Aston Martin DB7 Zagato |
Elio Zagato (27 February 1921 – 14 September 2009) was an Italian automobile designer.
Like his brother Gianni Zagato (born 1929), Elio Zagato joined father Ugo Zagato's design firm Zagato in Milan and, upon the father's death in 1968, took over its...
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| x Clive Sinclair |
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Sinclair C5 |
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (born 30 July 1940) is an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
After spending several years as assistant editor of Practical Wireless...
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| x William Flajole | Nash Healey |
Motor car designer, including the "Metropolitan"
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| x Fisker Automotive |
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Fisker Automotive, Inc. is an American automaker based in Anaheim, California. The company's first product is the Fisker Karma, one of the world's first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. It debuted at the 2008 North American International...
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