BMW 7-Series Designer Karim Habib Lured to Mercedes

Mercedes F700 Research Vehicle

Karim Habib will work on the F series designs for Mercedes

By Alex Ricciuti
March 16, 2009 2:05 PM
Filed Under: BMW, Corporate/Financial, German

First came the unexpected departure of Chris Bangle, and now BMW has lost another designer, this time, to the competition.

BMW designer Karim Habib will be going to work for Mercedes.

Canadian Habib has been lured by Mercedes-Benz to work on its F series designs, a set of concepts that Mercedes is developing as a way to move towards their future design paradigm. F series (with the F standing for future) designs seen thus far include the F400 and the F700.

Habib will be working at Mercedes' design studio on the outskirts of Stuttgart, under the auspices of its new head of design, Gorden Wagener.

At BMW, Habid designed the new BMW 7-series. His recruitment by Mercedes is part of the automaker's plan to bring young talent into its design division to help assure the future of the brand's premium status. The F series is being developed as concepts not for the next generation of vehicles but for the ones after that, for cars that won't see the road for another 10 years.

 

Source: autocar

Comments

lucifa
March 16, 2009 2:30 PM
Now didn't BMW fans always say everyone copied BMW designs...?

Kalos
March 16, 2009 2:51 PM
Pop!... goes the wessel. This guy is a nutter - Merc is certainly looking at sporty designs and next they'll steal an Audi Grill designer. People at Merc have certainly learnt a thinkg or two from R Dennis.


Edited by user on March 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM
serraxtrem
March 16, 2009 3:50 PM
Totaly agree with you !!!!

arut4ararat
March 16, 2009 2:51 PM
So what if BMW doesn't have that designer anymore, it doesn't mean anything, there are a lot of better designers i know that work for BMW.

Deutsch100
March 16, 2009 4:40 PM
If the F Class is the future of Mercedes design & thinking in the next 10 years....I will obviously NOT be driving a Benz ever again. Yuck!!

Siawa
March 16, 2009 4:57 PM
My only comment is for the image shown up. That is one hideous looking machine.

zdenda20
March 16, 2009 7:22 PM
So...does this mean that there is a vacancy at BMW? If they are reading this, better believe that I could design u the next 7 series, better, more beautiful, more aggressive at 8/9 of the price!:)

nendor
March 16, 2009 10:38 PM
there is no way that the future mercedes will look like that it is a concept so who cares :P

Joe_Limon
March 17, 2009 2:01 AM
Engineers and designers switch companies usually at least a few times in their careers. What makes this news worthy?

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