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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCallum relishes the challenge of designing successor to MX-5.(News)(Brief Article)
Automotive News Europe, January, 2003
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Byline: Chris Wright
Moray Callum has a challenge on his hands - to redesign an automotive icon while the current model still sells in record numbers.
Global sales of the 12-year-old Mazda MX-5 sports car are still strong. Yet its replacement is due about 2005. Scotsman Callum, brother of Jaguar's chief designer Ian Callum, is the man charged with the daunting assignment.
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"The MX-5 is a great challenge," he said. "It is a car on which everyone has an opinion. It has been an icon for Mazda and so we have to stay true to the design concept - it is not going to ...
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