Ford design boss Anthony Lo shares his personal approach to design in this exclusive Car Design Review X interview
Car designers are self-motivated and love problem-solving. That’s what we do every day. Globally we announced several vehicles this year, but the accomplishment I’m most proud of is the Mustang GTD, which we showed at 2023’s Pebble Beach, along with another car I can’t yet talk about.
The GTD is like nothing we’ve done before. It’s the most powerful street-legal Mustang with many components taken straight from our GT3 racing programme. It was created by a small team in a separate building and was very much a ‘skunkworks’ project. It’s something we were all very passionate about and design was involved from the very beginning. I love that we are able to do projects like this, considering our global scale and the challenges the industry is currently facing.
Meanwhile, we still have our daily work to do. We continue to…
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