McLaren Automotive has appointed Bentley’s Tobias Sühlmann to steer its design staff, the U.Ok. sports-car maker stated.

McLaren has been with out a design director since Robert Melville left final June to hitch Saudi Arabian electrical car startup Ceer.

Sühlmann will begin in September, McLaren stated.

He might be succeeded at Bentley by Robin Web page, who strikes to the Volkswagen Group subsidiary from Volvo.
 

“Tobias is a extremely skilled automotive designer with an present understanding of McLaren,” CEO Michael Leiters stated in a press release. “Tobias will play a number one position in creating McLaren’s new design language throughout our creating product portfolio.”

Sühlmann was promoted to move of Bentley design in January this 12 months following the promotion of his predecessor, Andreas Mindt, to steer design at Volkswagen passenger automobiles.

Sühlmann began his profession at VW Group earlier than transferring to Aston Martin in 2018 to steer the model’s exterior design.

He moved to McLaren in 2020 as head of design for particular initiatives, serving to to form the single-seat Solus GT, described by the corporate as ‘being as near the expertise and really feel of driving a Formulation One automobile as you may get.”

Sühlmann moved to Bentley in 2021 to turn out to be head of exterior design.