David Hilton has been appointed head of exterior design for Bentley Motors reporting directly to design and styling director Dirk van Braeckel.
Hilton has run his own successful design business for the past 12 years and has over two decades experience within automotive design having worked with a wide number of global companies.
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Award winning projects for a range of European and Japanese brands established his reputation and helped the companies attract new customers. Prior to this, Hilton worked at Ford in Detroit and Germany as well as a spell with Mazda in Japan.
A former chief designer at Ford Racing, he also has experience within the Volkswagen Group having been a designer at VW Autolatina in Brazil.
Hilron said: “Bentley has a distinctive design language which reflects the history and heritage of the brand but remains relevant to today’s high luxury customers.”
He replaces Raul Pires who left Bentley at the end of 2011 to join the VW-owned Italian design house Italdesign.
