Authentic: Bentley design boss Andreas Mindt strikes to Volkswagen

Bentley design boss Andreas Mindt will substitute his counterpart Jozef Kaban at Volkswagen from 1 February.

Mindt will get replaced in Crewe through Tobias Suehlmann, who already oversees Bentley’s external design division, having joined in overdue 2021 following stints at Bugatti, Aston Martin, McLaren and Volkswagen.

In line with a prior document from Automobilwoche, the high-profile process shuffle is a results of inside response to a couple of Kaban’s contemporary designs; it have been broadly reported that one in all his most up-to-date creations, the 2021 ID Lifestyles idea, was once taken again to the strategy planning stage for a redesign after its disclose in Munich, and VW CEO Thomas Schäfer is alleged to have requested for the logo’s not on time Trinity EV to be redesigned as a crossover, moderately than a saloon. 

Kaban has been given the function of ingenious artwork director for VW. He’ll additionally design of forward-looking idea mobility answers on the VW Staff Long run Heart Europe, in Potsdam, Germany.

Kai Grünitz, VW board member for technical construction, stated: “As leader dressmaker of the Volkswagen emblem, Jozef Kaban demonstrated that design comes to extra than just styling person fashions. Thru his design vocabulary he has already left his mark on our whole vary.”

Andreas Mindt has headed up Bentley design since January 2021, having moved over from sibling emblem Audi, the place he was once chargeable for the styling of the Audi Q8 and Audi E-tron, in addition to a sequence of ideas. He was once no longer a newcomer to the logo, even though, having created the show-stopping Bentley Hunaudières idea in 1999, which was once a key affect at the form of the Bugatti Veyron. 

Extra lately, Mindt previewed an intensive new design path for Bentley with the extremely unique Batur coupé – a Bentley Continental-based advent that celebrates the company’s mythical W12 engine whilst ushering in cues that may outline its long run electrical vehicles.

Grünitz added: “Andreas Mindt will form Volkswagen’s design language within the upcoming decisive segment of our transformation. I’m browsing ahead to operating with him.”