{"id":83562,"date":"2009-12-15T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/lotus-appoints-ferrari-designer-donato-coco-as-new-design-direct\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:01:00","slug":"lotus-appoints-ferrari-designer-donato-coco-as-new-design-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/83562","title":{"rendered":"Lotus appoints Ferrari designer Donato Coco as new design director"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"The upper echelon at Lotus<\/a> continues to evolve, with today’s announcement that Donato Coco has been appointed as the new director of design at the UK sports car maker and engineering consultancy. The Italian designer is moving to Hethel from Ferrari headquarters in Maranello where Coco worked on recent products like the F430<\/a> Scuderia coupe, Spider 16M<\/a>, California<\/a>, 599XX<\/a> and the new F458 Italia<\/a>. Prior to his Ferrari tenure, Coco was the chief designer at Citroen<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With Coco’s hiring, Lotus hopes to bring its design expertise up to par with its engineering work for other automakers. Coco will also oversee the design of the upcoming Lotus product range which will continue to be led by current design head Russell Carr. With Coco and Carr, Lotus will be producing an Evora<\/a> convertible, an all new Esprit and eventually a new Elise<\/a> and Exige<\/a> in the coming years. <\/p>\n

[Source: Lotus]<\/p>\n

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