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How to murder a Ghost

How’s this for a headline in a press release? ‘Infinity lemniscate symbol continues to codify noir expression of Rolls-Royce’. Nope, me neither. I can’t remember when I last went...

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Wide load

Driving off a Cornish beach this summer we encountered a hold up – half an hour of hold up, in fact. Not unexpected in a country still largely holidaying at home, but this one was special...

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Battery breakthrough: Part two

In 2019 the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Akira Yoshino, John Goodenough and Stanley Whittingham for the development of lithium-ion batteries. Sony produced...

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Plus ça change…

My younger colleagues often ridicule me about just how long I’ve been a car designer. Did I carve out my designs on stone tablets? Were my earliest three-dimensional models made...

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Battery breakthrough: Part one

As ‘Electric Saint’, Stuart Copeland and Jonathan Moore’s new opera about the life of electrical pioneers Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, premieres at Kunstfest Weimar...

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Farewell my friend

Normally the launch of a new SUV would not warrant words such as these. We might show the pictures on the Instagram site, try to think of a relevant comment or two and look forward to...

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Used and abused

Years ago, when I was a trainee ‘sparkie’ designing various electronic gubbins for Nineties Nissans, my mate Paul was responsible for seats and seatbelts. He still is, in fact...

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King of the car park

One of the greatest perks of being a parent to small children is the parking spaces. Yes, yes, the hugs, first steps, re-reading Thomas the Tank Engine and feeling as funny as Robin Williams...

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