Designer
Roy Axe
Roy Axe became design director at Rootes at 29 and styled the Hillman Avenger and Chrysler Alpine and Horizon, then led styling at Austin Rover, where his studio…
David Bache
David Bache was Rover's first stylist and shaped the P5, the P6 and the SD1, and had a hand in the Range Rover and the Land Rover Series…
Ian Callum
Ian Callum designed the Aston Martin DB7 and, as director of design at Jaguar from 1999, the XK, XF, F-Type and F-Pace. Born in Dumfries, he founded his…
Colin Chapman
Colin Chapman founded Lotus in 1952 and led Team Lotus to seven Formula One Constructors' titles. His philosophy was lightness over power: "Adding power makes you faster on…
Frank Costin
Frank Costin, an aircraft engineer at de Havilland, brought aerodynamics and the monocoque to racing cars. He designed the Lotus Mark VIII body, the Vanwall that won the…
Pietro Frua
Pietro Frua of Turin designed the AC 428 Frua of 1965 and the Renault Floride, and led Ghia Design from 1957 to 1960. He also oversaw Pelle Petterson's…
Ron Hickman
Ron Hickman styled the Ford Anglia 105E, then designed the Lotus Elan and Europa for Colin Chapman. He is best known outside motoring as the inventor of the…
Alec Issigonis
Sir Alec Issigonis designed the Morris Minor and the Mini, two of the best-loved British cars ever built. Born in Smyrna, he came to Britain in 1923 and…
Tom Karen
Tom Karen ran Ogle Design from 1962 to 1999 and oversaw the Reliant Scimitar GTE, the Bond Bug, the Raleigh Chopper and Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder. Born Thomas Kohn…
Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewy, the Paris-born American industrial designer of the Lucky Strike pack and the Studebaker Avanti, was a design consultant to the Rootes Group. His influence shows most…
William Lyons
Sir William Lyons, "Mr Jaguar", co-founded the Swallow Sidecar Company in Blackpool in 1922 and led it to become Jaguar. He personally styled every new Jaguar from the…
Harris Mann
Harris Mann took over as chief stylist at British Leyland in 1970 and designed the wedge-shaped Triumph TR7, the Austin Allegro, the Princess and the Metro. The rectangular…
Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern, born in Coventry, led design at Land Rover and then Jaguar Land Rover, shaping the third-generation Range Rover, the Freelander and the Evoque. He was lead…
Giovanni Michelotti
Giovanni Michelotti of Turin was one of the most prolific car designers of the twentieth century. From the late 1950s he styled almost every new Triumph, from the…
Gordon Murray
Gordon Murray, born in Durban to Scottish parents, designed Brabham and McLaren Formula One cars, then the McLaren F1 road car, and in 2017 founded Gordon Murray Automotive,…
Malcolm Sayer
Malcolm Sayer was the aerodynamicist behind the Jaguar C-type, D-type and E-type. A former aircraft engineer, he refused to be called a stylist, and shaped his cars with…
Peter Stevens
Peter Stevens designed the McLaren F1, the Lotus Elan M100 and the Jaguar XJR-15. He was chief designer at Lotus in the 1980s and at McLaren from 1990,…
