I met Peter Stevens, early in my career as a car designer, and he was such a supportive and positive character, he believed in me and my vision. Love him!
For those who miss Giovanni Bertone and Battista Pininfarina in this list: they are better known for the companies that they founded, than for the cars that they designed themselves.
One general criticism I would give to the video is that it is limited in time and geography. It's either the three great Italians who defined the wedge, or early 2000s geniuses of Europe (with the exception of Towns -another wedger- and Sir Alec Issigonis). I wish there was a bit more of earlier designers (pre-war like Jean Bugatti), early post war (like, obviously, Pininfarina), or later 80s and 90s designers (like Uwe Bahnsen, Bruno Sacco, Patrick Le Quément), and also of non European designers (I know Stephenson is American, but he mostly worked in Europe), like Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell, Raymond Loewy, Ken Okayama, Tsutomu Matano, and whoever came up with the Nissan Figaro.
Totally agree with your Frank Stephenson comments! To improve the Ferrari 360 into the Ferrari F430 with F1 technology and Ferrari’s purest details (sharknose, 250 LM intakes, headlights, curves, taillights, exhausts, difusers… he is a genius! Love your video!
Mitchell managed gm design and had great taste and an eye for talent, but did he actually design? I honestly don't know. Personal opinion but Earl was far behind Edsel Ford. Earl's cars ranged from frumpy to tacky. Exner's were certainly extroverted but aged terribly. Raymond Lowey and Gordon Buehrig delivered far better work that still looks great today. Taste varies, but these are my thoughts. Take care.
As a car design enthusiast for the last 25 years since my early teens, this video is the best I've seen in recent years. I obviously know each and everyone of these legendary designers and their work but seeing those gorgeous cars in high quality pictures and the commentary that comes with it is just pure joy. Thanks for that video.
Donkerwolke might have nailed this decades new designs with Hyundais ioniq 5 looks amazing, i feel like that's going to be the design of the future, you can see it with the n vision 72 as well.
Have you all forgotten Malcom Sayer? He designed what old man Enzo reportedly called the most beautiful car in the world, the E Type with the D Type, Xkss, C type and the XJS. Which are quintessentially the most beautiful classic sports cars of all time
Yes, left out a lot of old greats, and a few too many Brits in the list to be an objective list. Citroen's amazing design work should have surfaced, and obviously classic Bugattis, to think of a couple. Leaving out the Americans, the legendary Harley Earl is also ridiculous. Just no way that this list is deep enough in automotive history, or broad enough to be even remotely representative of automotive design greats. I also thought including Chris Bangle was absurd - he's hated, and while influential, can't be considered great because his designs haven't overcome the controversy they created.
Exactly what I wanted to say. :) Each to their own, but for me, designs that don't follow function are almost always forgettable, no matter how impactful it is at the time of unveiling. Aside from Bugatti, Colin Chapman's racing cars are some of the most beautiful creations on 4 wheels, for example.
However…….the greatest artists, the greatest designers have always come from Italy. Just take a look into the history of Italian art. It is something that exists in the DNA of the Italians.
Chris Bangle is a terrible designer. He also designed the Rolls Royce Phantom, which is ugly. He also did the Fiat Coupe 93, another weird divisive design. I would have loved to have seen Jason Castriota on this list. He designed the Ferrari 599, the SSC Tuatara, and the Maserati Gran Turismo, as well as some gorgeous Saab concept cars.
The WM Peugeot P88 actually did 407 km/h, but since you'd have to wait for about two decades to see a brand new Peugeot 407, the number was (incredibly) rounded down
Well there are 3 great names missing the Italians Flaminio Bertoni, designer of Citroen DS, Bruno Sacco designer of many Mercedes and Pininfarina, you named him but he deserved to be better covered
The Ferrari 288 GTO is in many ways the prototype V8 MR Ferrari that still influences the overall shape of the brand today so you could say Fioravanti is to Ferrari what Gandini is to Lamborghini
There is something wrong in the video. You speak just about the most famous desiners of the EUROPEANS car industry in the last quarter of the XX sentury but not about of the greatest car desiners of all time.
How can you not include Feruccio Bertoni - designer of the mind blowing Citroen ID 19 or Bruno Sacco who styled the Mercedes Benz cars of the 60's and seventies?
A list of designers that like to take credit for the work of others (and have self attributed designs not done by them) will include names from this very list.
Giovanni Michelotti, Robert Opron, Bruno Sacco, Flaminio Bertoni, Patrick Le Quément, etc., are far more important and relevant for car design than 1/3 of the names you've chosen. It's a huge error to ignore them. 2nd error: the focus on hypercars and sportscars. Sure, for some designers these were important, but not necessarily defining. Giugiaro's biggest references, for instance, are definitely the popular cars he designed in the 1970's and 1980's. He admitted himself once in an interview that his favourite own design is the 1980 Fiat Panda because the back to basics concept was the most challenging and well-conceived for the sake of pure design. Frank Stephenson is an highly overrated designer, in my perspective, whose biggest legacy is bourgeois retro exercises, namely on small cars, being the opposite of Issigonis, Giugiaro, Michelotti or Le Quément, who knew that design is not mere styling exercises.
in all honesty the one and only og stand alone designer is Giovanni Michelotti and should always be included on such a list. The actual original and prolific designer of many often wrongly attributed designs. but he would be too busy and humble to correct.
Car design has, long ago, from how cars look to what they mean. In that respect, Adriaan van Hooydonck and Laurens van den Acker are heavyweights in their own right.
and what are you doing with Paolo Martin? unbelievable you don't mention him.Forgot Ferrari Modulo, Fiat 130 Coupe, Rolls Royce Camargue, Lancia Montecarlo,Peugeot 104 etc.etc.?
I may have missed it or be mistaken but... I hope it's not too much to say this is an unfairly Eurocentric view of automotive design. I think you could've swapped a few of these guys out for Sakurai (iirc he was the longtime Skyline designer). If I'm mistaken, sorry... interesting video overall.
Fair point. Yoshi Matsuo (Datsun 240Z), Kuni Uchida (2nd Gen Toyota MR2), Matasaburo Maeda (original RX-7) all great designers of iconic sports cars. Tom Tjaarda should be in there too imo for the Pantera and the Ferrari 365 California.
How come Porsche is not in the list. He designed the original 911 which is the most timeless design. Still today the same design is being retouched by porsche for thier cars. And they all still look stunning. Just that one design demands his inclusion here.
Chris Bangle's BMW designs haven't "aged beautifully" or "look elegant now". As in the case of being afflicted with a chronic ailment, one comes to terms with it with the passage of time and learns to deal with the suffering. The pain is duller, but it still hurts.....
You forgot Paul Bracq. He did many of the most attractive Mercedes, including the 600, the 230sl pagoda, and many other Mercedes from that generation. He also did some of the most classic BMWs, including all their key cars from the 1970s; the 3, 5, 6, & 7 series to name a few. Bracq should be mentioned in the top 4 with Gandini, Fioravanti, and Giugiaro. Bangle shouldn’t be mentioned at all…
Giovanni Michelotti and Ercole Spada should be in this list, and I think I've missed Tom Tjaarda too. Come on, if you make a list like this these great designers should be in there.
You are absolutely right! Michelotti is definitely a top 5 desigber of all time and they didn't even mention him. I think these lists made by inters after an hour of googling.
Pietro Frua, Franco Scaglione, Giovanni and Nuccio Bertone, Raymond Loewy... They are all design super stars, but leave it to a Brit to fill a list of "Greatest Designers" with British one hit wonders and a bunch of somewhat successful yet unknown guys
@@federicodecuadro5672 Yes, another couple of names that deserve mentioning. The guy making this might want to check out the Roadster Life channel before he makes another list :)
You were actually right in omitting someone: Robert Opron. Not because Opron's designs (especially at Citroën) weren't amazing (think GS, CX, the mother of all GTs her majesty the SM, and yes, the restyled version of the DS, which is the definitive image we have of the Déesse --sorry Flaminio), but because he considered himself as a sculptor, not a car designer. And it shows, his cars look as if carved out of one solid block, they have a very un-car like movement, which makes his designs stand out even today. Now, do another list of the greatest car sculptors of all time, he better be number one :)
I’d posit Tsutomu Matano should be on a revised & expanded list. Granted his cars are not featured but lots of cars followed. He reinvented the practical modern interpretation and production ready application of the ‘British sports car’ formula in giving us the MX-5 Miata. He gave us the FD-RX7 & the RX8. Worked on numerous GM cars & then some. Kept nineties & ‘00s interesting.
@@herrerasauro7429 Especially Larry Shinoda. While he is a Japanese-American he designed some of America's most beautiful cars. Corvette stingray, Mercury Cougar, '69 Mustang Boss 302 to name a few.
My 12 favorite car designer are: Giorgetto Giugiaro, Michelotti, Bruno Sacco, Paul Bracq, Pietro Frua, Klaus Luthe, Aldo Sessano, Helmut Warkuss, John Manoogian, Paolo Martin, Sixten Sason and William Towns.
Definitely agree that Ian Callum deserves to be in there - he's a design genius. But another is Julian Thomson. Everybody knows he did the original Lotus Elise, but he also did the Land Rover LRX concept. Why is that important? Every single Range Rover afterwards has lifted the looks from that concept. He then also worked with Callum on the latest run of updates to the Jaguars, the last that Jaguar will see because the current CEO Thierry Bollore is currently in the process of killing off Jaguar. The worst automotive CEO also manage to lose one of the best designers in the business.
Don’t forget Chris Bangle’s Fiat Coupé. Still a very beautiful design in my opinion. I’ve had two in the distant past: an underpowered, naturally aspirated 1.8 and a very fast (for its time) 2.0 5 cylinder turbo. They were built at Pininfarina, but had some of the worst electrical gremlins I have experienced in any car.
You missed Paolo Martín, Franco Scaglione, Ercole Spada, Robert Opron, Aldo Brovarone, Wayne Cherry, Paul Bracq, Bruno Sacco, Harm Lagaay, Grant Larson, Anatole Lapin, Malcolm Sayer, William Lyons, Ken Okuyama, Jason Castriota and many others.
You need to add one more: Bruno Sacco. The legendary designer of the Mercedes Benz W201, W123, W124, and the R129.
Came here to say the same thing. To me, this video looses credibility by excluding the legendary Bruno Sacco.
And the W126!
you forgot the most iconic W140..even though he didn't like it. But it def went on to become one of the most iconic mercedes S class.
Absolutely, also the W220, the last understated and tastefully-styled S-Class we've seen.
Couldnt agree more
You forgot Paul Bracq, A genius designer who defined Mercedes- Benz in 60's, BMW in 70's, and Peugeot later on.
I met Peter Stevens, early in my career as a car designer, and he was such a supportive and positive character, he believed in me and my vision. Love him!
Ok liar
@@NoName-cn3cp Do you not know who @Amoconda is???
@Amoconda Wait, you're a car designer? I've never heard of you. What's your name so I can look you up?
Hi man! How is the career going? You were able to find a job?
@@NoName-cn3cp ha why I gotta lie???
For those who miss Giovanni Bertone and Battista Pininfarina in this list: they are better known for the companies that they founded, than for the cars that they designed themselves.
Peter Stephens also designed the original Subaru Impreza WRC for 1997
The man who designed what is often called the most beautiful car ever deserves a mention: Malcolm Sayer
The car Enzo Ferrari himself was the most beautiful ever made, the Jaguar E-Type
One general criticism I would give to the video is that it is limited in time and geography. It's either the three great Italians who defined the wedge, or early 2000s geniuses of Europe (with the exception of Towns -another wedger- and Sir Alec Issigonis). I wish there was a bit more of earlier designers (pre-war like Jean Bugatti), early post war (like, obviously, Pininfarina), or later 80s and 90s designers (like Uwe Bahnsen, Bruno Sacco, Patrick Le Quément), and also of non European designers (I know Stephenson is American, but he mostly worked in Europe), like Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell, Raymond Loewy, Ken Okayama, Tsutomu Matano, and whoever came up with the Nissan Figaro.
Absolutely this.
How on earth can you leave out Malcolm Sayer,the designer of the the greatest of them all,the Jaguar E-Type.
Totally agree with your Frank Stephenson comments! To improve the Ferrari 360 into the Ferrari F430 with F1 technology and Ferrari’s purest details (sharknose, 250 LM intakes, headlights, curves, taillights, exhausts, difusers… he is a genius! Love your video!
Virgil Exner, Bill Mitchel and Harley Earl should all get a mention
Mitchell managed gm design and had great taste and an eye for talent, but did he actually design? I honestly don't know.
Personal opinion but Earl was far behind Edsel Ford. Earl's cars ranged from frumpy to tacky. Exner's were certainly extroverted but aged terribly.
Raymond Lowey and Gordon Buehrig delivered far better work that still looks great today.
Taste varies, but these are my thoughts.
Take care.
As a car design enthusiast for the last 25 years since my early teens, this video is the best I've seen in recent years. I obviously know each and everyone of these legendary designers and their work but seeing those gorgeous cars in high quality pictures and the commentary that comes with it is just pure joy. Thanks for that video.
Donkerwolke might have nailed this decades new designs with Hyundais ioniq 5 looks amazing, i feel like that's going to be the design of the future, you can see it with the n vision 72 as well.
The guys who draw thé LC 500, the Roma and the CC850 are crazy genius
I think the best BMW Designer would be person who designed the 2000 BMW 7 Series.
That was the truly a work of art.
De Silva is everything Audi A5 B8 Is still the most beautiful car ever made love mine
Flavio Manzoni should definitely be on this list. The LaFerrari is a masterpiece on its own.
There's nothing like the F40. To me, it's the best looking supercall of all time.
Giugiaro and Gandini can’t be beat.
Have you all forgotten Malcom Sayer? He designed what old man Enzo reportedly called the most beautiful car in the world, the E Type with the D Type, Xkss, C type and the XJS. Which are quintessentially the most beautiful classic sports cars of all time
the WM actually hit 407 i believe, but they said 405 in the ad for commercialisation
Yes, left out a lot of old greats, and a few too many Brits in the list to be an objective list. Citroen's amazing design work should have surfaced, and obviously classic Bugattis, to think of a couple. Leaving out the Americans, the legendary Harley Earl is also ridiculous. Just no way that this list is deep enough in automotive history, or broad enough to be even remotely representative of automotive design greats. I also thought including Chris Bangle was absurd - he's hated, and while influential, can't be considered great because his designs haven't overcome the controversy they created.
Exactly what I wanted to say. :) Each to their own, but for me, designs that don't follow function are almost always forgettable, no matter how impactful it is at the time of unveiling. Aside from Bugatti, Colin Chapman's racing cars are some of the most beautiful creations on 4 wheels, for example.
Michelotti, Loewy,Exner,Mitchell,Earl,James,Bracq etc
What about Virgil Exner, or Gerald Palmer ?
However…….the greatest artists, the greatest designers have always come from Italy. Just take a look into the history of Italian art. It is something that exists in the DNA of the Italians.
The narrator was stunning👌. Enjoyed the narration as much the video.
Not including Bruno Sacco in this list is almost a literal crime. :(
Chris Bangle is a terrible designer. He also designed the Rolls Royce Phantom, which is ugly. He also did the Fiat Coupe 93, another weird divisive design. I would have loved to have seen Jason Castriota on this list. He designed the Ferrari 599, the SSC Tuatara, and the Maserati Gran Turismo, as well as some gorgeous Saab concept cars.
Didn’t Castriota kill off SAAB with his final concept car for them!? Tbh he had some great designs.
@@MrAmogill Saab was already too far gone. Cool concept cars had very little impact on their survivability.
His Fiat Coupe with the weird side slashes should have been a warning sign to BMW.
The WM Peugeot P88 actually did 407 km/h, but since you'd have to wait for about two decades to see a brand new Peugeot 407, the number was (incredibly) rounded down
Well there are 3 great names missing the Italians Flaminio Bertoni, designer of Citroen DS, Bruno Sacco designer of many Mercedes and Pininfarina, you named him but he deserved to be better covered
I miss Battista Pinifarina and Giovanni Bertone.
Think you mean Nuccio Bertone
How about one video of motorcycle designers?
I love Franks X1 Mclaren. I wish it was mentioned
More Vortex Generators, Please!!
No Harley Earl ? He kicked off the styling resonance of the 1950s
Didn't expect to see Issigonis in this list...
Malcolm Sayer should've made the list
The Ferrari 288 GTO is in many ways the prototype V8 MR Ferrari that still influences the overall shape of the brand today so you could say Fioravanti is to Ferrari what Gandini is to Lamborghini
I like Fioravanti's Daytona a lot
Top shelf list of designers, for sure.....thanks for sharing... really enjoyed this one
no Robert Opron?
Waiting for Gordon Murray
Why? He is mentioned in the video.
There is something wrong in the video. You speak just about the most famous desiners of the EUROPEANS car industry in the last quarter of the XX sentury but not about of the greatest car desiners of all time.
How can you not include Feruccio Bertoni - designer of the mind blowing Citroen ID 19 or Bruno Sacco who styled the Mercedes Benz cars of the 60's and seventies?
A list of designers that like to take credit for the work of others (and have self attributed designs not done by them) will include names from this very list.
What about Ken Okuyama?
I'm with you on this. Scrolled down 20 pages to find someone else asking about him.
Where is Bruno Sacco?
Where is sergio pininfarina?
Ma dove Pininfarina ?
Have no idea that Peter Stevens designed the BL5 Legacy (my favorite Subaru Legacy!)
Fioravanti did design many beautiful Ferrari but the F40 was designed by Nicola Materazzi who made that car from A to Z on his own.
on his own? Nope.
@@eclat521 On his own, really.
Why include Chris Bangle (meh) and Frank Stephenson (who?) when you're omitting the legendary Ercole Spada and the ingenious Giovanni Michelotti?
Giovanni Michelotti, Robert Opron, Bruno Sacco, Flaminio Bertoni, Patrick Le Quément, etc., are far more important and relevant for car design than 1/3 of the names you've chosen. It's a huge error to ignore them.
2nd error: the focus on hypercars and sportscars. Sure, for some designers these were important, but not necessarily defining. Giugiaro's biggest references, for instance, are definitely the popular cars he designed in the 1970's and 1980's. He admitted himself once in an interview that his favourite own design is the 1980 Fiat Panda because the back to basics concept was the most challenging and well-conceived for the sake of pure design.
Frank Stephenson is an highly overrated designer, in my perspective, whose biggest legacy is bourgeois retro exercises, namely on small cars, being the opposite of Issigonis, Giugiaro, Michelotti or Le Quément, who knew that design is not mere styling exercises.
in all honesty the one and only og stand alone designer is Giovanni Michelotti and should always be included on such a list. The actual original and prolific designer of many often wrongly attributed designs. but he would be too busy and humble to correct.
Giugiaro also designed some Vredstein tyres
Paolo Martin!
Car design has, long ago, from how cars look to what they mean. In that respect, Adriaan van Hooydonck and Laurens van den Acker are heavyweights in their own right.
and what are you doing with Paolo Martin? unbelievable you don't mention him.Forgot Ferrari Modulo, Fiat 130 Coupe, Rolls Royce Camargue, Lancia Montecarlo,Peugeot 104 etc.etc.?
Seems westerners don't like the design of Bangle 7 series bmw. In my region we think this design is beautiful and futuristic
Franco Scaglione. Who designed the Alfa Romeo Typo 33 Stradale.
Have you ever heard of PininFarina ?( what rock have you been under ??? )
I may have missed it or be mistaken but... I hope it's not too much to say this is an unfairly Eurocentric view of automotive design. I think you could've swapped a few of these guys out for Sakurai (iirc he was the longtime Skyline designer). If I'm mistaken, sorry... interesting video overall.
Fair point. Yoshi Matsuo (Datsun 240Z), Kuni Uchida (2nd Gen Toyota MR2), Matasaburo Maeda (original RX-7) all great designers of iconic sports cars. Tom Tjaarda should be in there too imo for the Pantera and the Ferrari 365 California.
No Okuyama? Seriously?
How come Porsche is not in the list. He designed the original 911 which is the most timeless design. Still today the same design is being retouched by porsche for thier cars. And they all still look stunning. Just that one design demands his inclusion here.
Maybe Paul Bracq should be mentioned...
Flaminio Bertoni, Robert Opron? Your list is hilariously flawed.
Miss Mr Jean Bugatti...
Chris Bangle but not Nuccio Bertone????
Where is Michelotti and most of all Bertone?
Yeah. Why am I not on this list?
I don't like the German designers super cars , I think the Italian designers made way way more beautiful super cars!
this should be 12 greatest designers of MODERN TIMES.
No Pininfarina?
PININFARINA, HOW IS HE NOT IN THE VIDEO
Chris Bangle's BMW designs haven't "aged beautifully" or "look elegant now". As in the case of being afflicted with a chronic ailment, one comes to terms with it with the passage of time and learns to deal with the suffering. The pain is duller, but it still hurts.....
How can you not mention il Maestro Bruno Sacco? What a shame.
I knew that Hyundai must had spent a lot of money in a proper designer. That i5 is just back to the future...
No Opron? :)))))))))))))))))
Bro leepu where is he
Idk but car designing seems pretty easy.
William Towns can only be listed here to provoke me...
LOTUS ESPRIT...
Bertone, Syd Enever, Yoshihiko Matsuo?
Excellent observations
You forgot Paul Bracq. He did many of the most attractive Mercedes, including the 600, the 230sl pagoda, and many other Mercedes from that generation.
He also did some of the most classic BMWs, including all their key cars from the 1970s; the 3, 5, 6, & 7 series to name a few.
Bracq should be mentioned in the top 4 with Gandini, Fioravanti, and
Giugiaro.
Bangle shouldn’t be mentioned at all…
and Bruno Sacco too
@@antonioviana1641 Agreed 100%
The E25 Turbo is exquisite.
Came here to say that. Paul Bracq designed the prettiest and most iconic Mercedes and then defined modern BMW with the series cars.
I was thinking the same... was waiting to mention him, unfortanatly he didnt.
Flaminio Bertoni with the Citroen DS, 2CV and Ami 6. And Peter Schreyer with Audi TT and the current Kia/Hyundai Design.
Wow, Bangle on the list but not Ken Okuyama?! You guys must be drunk...
Giovanni Michelotti and Ercole Spada should be in this list, and I think I've missed Tom Tjaarda too. Come on, if you make a list like this these great designers should be in there.
I was surprised
You are absolutely right!
Michelotti is definitely a top 5 desigber of all time and they didn't even mention him.
I think these lists made by inters after an hour of googling.
Pietro Frua, Franco Scaglione, Giovanni and Nuccio Bertone, Raymond Loewy... They are all design super stars, but leave it to a Brit to fill a list of "Greatest Designers" with British one hit wonders and a bunch of somewhat successful yet unknown guys
I was also very surprised and disappointed as Michelotti was one of the greats in his time!
@@federicodecuadro5672 Yes, another couple of names that deserve mentioning. The guy making this might want to check out the Roadster Life channel before he makes another list :)
Let me set something. Dino was designed by Mr. Brovarone (Artist) and F40 by Materazzi (Engineer).
But Materazzi (RIP) was an engineer, he would not have been involved with the styling of the car
Materazzi non disegnava auto , inCironati
@@massimobernardo-
Esatto. Le progettava, per intero. Permalosetto.
@@gerardodandrea1166 si faceva tutto lui guarda .... ,manco 100 anni fa con le carrozze a motore questo succedeva .
@@gerardodandrea1166 scommetto pure che credi che Musk progetta le Tesla e i razzi , nel tempo libero i treni .
Flaminio Bertoni needs to be on this list too, as well as Giovanni Michelotti, Franco Scaglione, etc.
to think Bertone wasn't mentioned...madness! No single studio had as much influential designs as Bertone (except maybe guigiaro)
You were actually right in omitting someone: Robert Opron. Not because Opron's designs (especially at Citroën) weren't amazing (think GS, CX, the mother of all GTs her majesty the SM, and yes, the restyled version of the DS, which is the definitive image we have of the Déesse --sorry Flaminio), but because he considered himself as a sculptor, not a car designer. And it shows, his cars look as if carved out of one solid block, they have a very un-car like movement, which makes his designs stand out even today. Now, do another list of the greatest car sculptors of all time, he better be number one :)
delete Chris Bangle
Chris Bangle should have deleted his design for the BMW 7 series.
Should've been deleted along ago. Not a single one of designs can be considered "beautiful".
So no need to include Malcolm Sayer and the E-Type…? Bonkers list.
I’d posit Tsutomu Matano should be on a revised & expanded list. Granted his cars are not featured but lots of cars followed. He reinvented the practical modern interpretation and production ready application of the ‘British sports car’ formula in giving us the MX-5 Miata. He gave us the FD-RX7 & the RX8. Worked on numerous GM cars & then some. Kept nineties & ‘00s interesting.
Yeah, not even one japanese designer is a travesty and specially one with such a portfolio.
@@herrerasauro7429 Especially Larry Shinoda. While he is a Japanese-American he designed some of America's most beautiful cars. Corvette stingray, Mercury Cougar, '69 Mustang Boss 302 to name a few.
i was waiting for Horacio Pagani. The father of some of the most beautiful cars in the world.
My 12 favorite car designer are: Giorgetto Giugiaro, Michelotti, Bruno Sacco, Paul Bracq, Pietro Frua, Klaus Luthe, Aldo Sessano, Helmut Warkuss, John Manoogian, Paolo Martin, Sixten Sason and William Towns.
Sixten Sason, Saab Sonnett?
Boy was that alliterative. 😏
was kinda disappointed that Raymond Leowe wasn't mentioned, but that's my bias :)
Harley Earl... nuff said.
Virgil Exner...
Definitely agree that Ian Callum deserves to be in there - he's a design genius. But another is Julian Thomson. Everybody knows he did the original Lotus Elise, but he also did the Land Rover LRX concept. Why is that important? Every single Range Rover afterwards has lifted the looks from that concept. He then also worked with Callum on the latest run of updates to the Jaguars, the last that Jaguar will see because the current CEO Thierry Bollore is currently in the process of killing off Jaguar. The worst automotive CEO also manage to lose one of the best designers in the business.
Don’t forget Chris Bangle’s Fiat Coupé. Still a very beautiful design in my opinion.
I’ve had two in the distant past: an underpowered, naturally aspirated 1.8 and a very fast (for its time) 2.0 5 cylinder turbo. They were built at Pininfarina, but had some of the worst electrical gremlins I have experienced in any car.
You missed Paolo Martín, Franco Scaglione, Ercole Spada, Robert Opron, Aldo Brovarone, Wayne Cherry, Paul Bracq, Bruno Sacco, Harm Lagaay, Grant Larson, Anatole Lapin, Malcolm Sayer, William Lyons, Ken Okuyama, Jason Castriota and many others.
the Miura concept is stunning 👍🏻props to De Silva