Géza Lóczi
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- The native form of this personal name is Lóczi Géza. This article uses the Western name order.
Géza Lóczi is a Hungarian-American car designer, Director of Design at Volvo Monitoring Concept Center[1](VMCC in Camarillo, California[2]).
He started drawing cars at the age of nine. When he was twelve, he carved cars out of wood and started painting them. He entered the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, a model car competition sponsored by General Motors.
After building seven models in seven years, Lóczi learned a lot about designing, proportion, painting, craftsmanship and managing projects. These 1/12 scale models led to a Styling Scholarship and a National Award winning model.
Before becoming professional Lóczi studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1980, Lóczi became a Design Manager at Volkswagen. After that Lóczi established his own consulting design company. In 1983 Lóczi worked as a consultant to Volvo in California, then moved to Sweden to work with the company. He moved back to California in 1985. A year later when Volvo started a studio in California, he became the Chief Designer.
He has been involved in the design of the Environmental Concept Car (ECC), P2 cars in production today (S80, V70 and S60[3]), the Safety Concept Car (SCC) shown recently at the Detroit Motor Show. VMCC, the Volvo Cars think-tank[4] also designed the XC90[5], Volvo's entry into the North American SUV market.
[edit] References
- ^ Resume of Géza Lóczi. Autoweb. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ 2001 Volvo S60 - The perfect blend of style, safety and performance. Automedia. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ The power and the prestige. Daily Telegraph (2000-09-23). Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ Volvo Monitoring & Concept Center: “We don’t predict the future, we create it!. The Volvo Owners Club. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ Volvo designers Géza Lóczi and Steve Martin give you a walk around the XC90 highlighting all the safety features
