Bugatti Chiron designer to fashion future Koenigseggs
Koenigsegg has snagged proficient automotive designer Sasha Selipanov as its new head of design.
The 35-year-old will even head the Swedish marque’s new design consultancy enterprise, RAW Design Home.
Selipanov is the person who penned the outside of the Bugatti Chiron, so his information of designing automobiles able to reaching speeds approaching 300 mph ought to show invaluable at Koenigsegg. In line with Koenigsegg CEO and founder Christian von Koenigsegg, Selipanov’s expertise and “radical” design strategies will bode the corporate properly.
Christian von Koenigsegg (left) and Sasha Selipanov
A graduate of Artwork Middle Faculty of Design in California, Selipanov began his profession on the Volkswagen Group in 2005 the place he was additionally concerned within the design of a number of fashions along with the Chiron, one other being the Lamborghini Huracan. He stop to hitch Genesis in 2017 the place he was tasked with overseeing the model’s Europe-based superior design studio, which throughout his tenure churned out the good-looking Essentia and Mint idea automobiles.
“This can be a dream come true,” Selipanov mentioned. “I’ve adopted Koenigsegg’s path for years and have been an enormous fan of the corporate’s free spirit and dedication to innovation.”
Whereas it is not clear what Selipanov’s first undertaking at Koenigsegg shall be, the corporate has hinted at a extra attainable mannequin. It is also shaped a three way partnership with NEVS to discover extra segments, together with probably the EV section. Little question Koenigsegg will even be dreaming up updates for its present Regera and Jesko hypercars.
