Wolfgang Josef Egger (born 13 February 1963) is a car designer from Germany, a former

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Group head designer, and currently a BYD Group head designer.

Biography

Egger was born in

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, and studied Design at the International College of Arts and Sciences in

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. In 1989, he graduated as an industrial designer. Egger began his professional career in 1989 in the Design department at

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. In 1993, he was appointed Chief Designer of

. In 1998, he became Chief Designer at

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, where he was able to input his personal style in, for example, the

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, Cordoba and

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. In 2001, W. J. Egger was appointed Head of Design at

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. In the same year, however, he returned to

as Chief Designer. Among the cars developed by Alfa Romeo under his direction were the Nuvola Concept, 156, 166,

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and 8C Competizione.. On 1 May 2007, Egger succeeded Walter Maria de Silva as Head of

Group Design. Then he was responsible for the

and

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brands. On 6 Dec 2013, Egger left Audi design. Egger was replaced by Walter DeSilva who became chief of design for all of VW's makes: Porsche, Audi, Vw Skoda, Seat. In order to lure DeSilva to VW, VW added three Italian makes: Lamborghini, Ducati and ItalDesign coach house. In 2017, Egger became design director for BYD. The Chinese automaker appointed him to create their design identity, starting with the hybrid model

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and a series of other electric vehicles.

References

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