Horbury is best known for his work at Volvo, but he also oversaw Ford’s Premier Automotive Group and was in charge of all of Geely’s brand’s designs car auto cars
. One name you won’t find on that list is that of Peter Horbury, who has died unexpectedly at the age of 73. Yet this quietly-spoken Brit has arguably had far more influence over the past 40-plus years on the shape of the cars we see around us than many other more famous names on that list.
There’s a chance you’ve never even heard of Peter Horbury, or if you have, the name rings a bell, but you can’t quite put your finger on why. Though a big deal in the car industry, to the outer world he’s far less well known than contemporaries like Ian Callum, Chris Bangle and Frank Stephenson. But you’ll have seen Horbury’s work a million times, even if you didn’t know it, most obviously thanks to his work with Volvo. It was during one of those periods that he created the 1992 ECC concept, a sedan that didn’t only help transform Volvo design from the late 1990s when it filtered through to production cars like the S80 and S60, but whose influence you can still see in today’s
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