Supercar Coming?

Luc Donckerwolke
Luc Donckerwolke

 

Hyundai-Kia Motors has hired the former design head of super high-end auto brands Lamborghini and Bentley. It is said that the group will accelerate a super car project led by Vice Chairman Chung Eui-Sun.

According to industry sources and foreign press on June 18, Hyundai has hired Luc Donckerwolke, former design head of the VW Group-owned luxury car company Bentley. He will start working at the Hyundai-Kia Motors Design Center as early as next month.

Luc Donckerwolke will become the design head of the group, and is expected to hold a crucial role in the company coming close to Peter Schreyer, president of Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors Design.

Previously, Bentley announced early this month, “Luc Donckerwolke, the head of its design center, decided to leave the VW Group, and Stefan Sielaff will be his successor.”

Born in 1965, Luc Donckerwolke is a Belgian car designer and former Design Director of Lamborghini and Bentley of the Volkswagen Group. He began his design career in 1990 with Peugeot in France and moved to Ingolstadt of Germany at Audi Design in 1992. Since then, he worked on the Audi A4 Avant wagon, the Audi A2 concept car, and the Audi R8 Le Mans Racer.

He became head of design at Lamborghini in 1998, where he was responsible for the 2001 Lamborghini Diablo VT 6.0, 2002 Lamborghini Murciélago, and 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo. He also produced the 2006 Lamborghini Miura concept.

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