McLaren Automotive on Friday named Tobias Sühlmann as its new chief design officer.
He replaces Rob Melville who left McLaren final 12 months to hitch Ceer, the brand new electrical car model of Saudi Arabia.
Sühlmann has greater than 20 years of expertise in automotive design, most of it earned on the Volkswagen Group. He has beforehand served as head of exterior design at Bugatti and Aston Martin, and he did a earlier stint at McLaren.
His final position previous to his return to guide design at McLaren was as director of design at Bentley.
Tobias Sühlmann
Throughout his earlier stint at McLaren, Sühlmann was lead designer for particular initiatives. One of many automobiles whose design he oversaw was the track-only Solus GT hypercar unveiled final 12 months.
In his new chief design officer position, Sühlmann will lead a crew accountable for future ideas, exterior and inside styling, plus colour and supplies. The crew may even work with prospects trying to personalize their automobiles.
Sühlmann may even be charged with growing a brand new design language for McLaren. McLaren’s present design language dates again to the P1 hypercar launched a decade in the past.
