Ferrari designer moves to Alfa Romeo

[Zafiro]

Parent company Fiat has made Frank Stephenson head of the Alfa Romeo Styling Centre. Stephenson was responsible for the design of Ferrari's F430 and 612 Scaglietti supercars. He also worked at BMW, where he designed the X5 and the new Mini.

In April 2005 he was appointed Head of the Fiat, Lancia and Light Commercial Vehicles Styling Centre, a position that he has held until today.

Stephenson will report directly to recently appointed Lorenzo Ramaciotti, Head of Style for all Fiat Group Automobiles brands and Maserati.

He replaces Wolfgang Egger, who was responsible for the design of the new Alfa 8C Competizione and Alfa 159 sedan.

Stephenson was born on 3 October 1959 in Morocco. He has lived and worked in Spain and graduated from the Art Center College of Design at Pasadena, California.

 

[Yperion]

Egger is now head of Design for Audi:

Audi seems to have grown particularly fond of Alfa Romeo's styling, and as a result they have been poaching the Italian marque's designers. The first to make the move northwards was Walter de' Silva, and now, Wolfgang Egger is following suit.

Egger is leaving Alfa Romeo to become the new head of Audi's Style Center, the job formerly held by his old boss Walter de Silva, who moves up to Head of Volkswagen Group Design.

During his tenure at Alfa Romeo, Egger was responsible for some beautiful creations, most notably the drop-dead gorgeous 8C Competizione and the Nuvola concept car from the 1997 Paris show. He had a large hand in designing the head-turning 159 sedan and wagon, Brera and Spyder and he contributed to the upcoming 149, 169 and Junior projects. In bouncing back and forth between various design posts in the Volkswagen and Fiat empires, he also worked on Seat and Lancia designs. While together at Alfa Romeo, Egger and de Silva worked together in penning the current 156, 166 and 147 models.

Alfa Romeo's loss is Audi's gain. It'll be interesting to follow how the shifts will impact the designs of future models at both companies.

Together Again: designer Wolfgang Egger leaves Alfa Romeo to join Walter de Silva at Audi - Autoblog

Frank Stephenson is a great designed. Too bad he left BMW.

 

[Mr. M]

I hope they won't tinkle with the already great design at Audi - no curvy shapes or anything like that in the 8C...

 

[Zafiro]

Too bad he left BMW.

What a Bullshit sentence!

 

[PanterroR]

What a Bullshit sentence!

Why?

 

[Zafiro]

Why?

do you think bmw today are ugly?

 

[PanterroR]

do you think bmw today are ugly?

Z4 and X3 yes, but not others.

Why bs sentence? The old X5 was the nicest BMW together with E38.

 

[Zafiro]

Z4 and X3 yes, but not others.

Why bs sentence? The old X5 was the nicest BMW together with E38.

there you go, if you like bmw today then explain why is it a shame he is gone?

 

[PanterroR]

What shame and where did i mention shame? I've asked you why bs sentence of Yannis? He likes/ed old X5 and Mini is pretty nice too. Maybe we would see nicer cars today...

Anyhow, if 95% of the line up is gorgeous today, i personally don't give a damn who's the designer...

 

[Zafiro]

What shame and where did i mention shame? I've asked you why bs sentence of Yannis? He likes/ed old X5 and Mini is pretty nice too. Maybe we would see nicer cars today...

Anyhow, if 95% of the line up is gorgeous today, i personally don't give a damn who's the designer...

Oh well, nevermind. Its BS even if its Bush or Yannis saying it.

EDIT: or santa clause or mother teresa or Donald duck saying it.