McLaren Automotive on Friday named Tobias Sühlmann as its new chief design officer.

He replaces Rob Melville who left McLaren final 12 months to affix Ceer, the brand new electrical automobile model of Saudi Arabia.

Sühlmann has over twenty years of expertise in automotive design, most of it earned on the Volkswagen Group. He has beforehand served as head of exterior design at Bugatti and Aston Martin, and has had a earlier stint at McLaren.

His final function previous to his return to steer design at McLaren was as director of design at Bentley.

Throughout his earlier stint at McLaren, Sühlmann was lead designer for particular initiatives. One of many vehicles whose design he oversaw was the track-only Solus GT hypercar unveiled final 12 months.

In his new chief design officer function, Sühlmann will lead a crew liable for future ideas, exterior and inside styling, plus shade and supplies. The crew will even work with prospects trying to personalize their autos.

Sühlmann will even be charged with growing a brand new design language for McLaren. McLaren’s present design language dates again to the P1 hypercar launched a decade in the past.