I had a model of every Mitsubishi Magna, fours and sixes, from the very first. They were all exceptional cars for their time which seemed better built than the other Aussie competitors. My favorite was the KL Verada GTVI with that big smiley front and a grunty engine tone. I preferred to call it a shark nose. Whilst not classics as such, the earlier ones showed that the Australian engineers were on the right track when they widened a FWD Galant and later ones can hold their head high with those pillarless doors and rakish front. The boy racer in me says I need a Magna Ralliart in bright red. Do not forget that our Aussie designers are working at companies all over the world. Holden's design studio in Port Melbourne, led by Richard Ferlazzo, was responsible for both the design and construction of two of General Motors' most important show cars, the Buick Avenir limousine and the Chevrolet Bolt electric city car. Over at Ford, the creation of its stunning GT supercar was overseen in the US by Tasmanian Todd Willing, who was commissioned to design the top-secret supercar project before returning to Australia as the head of Ford's Asia-Pacific design studio in Broadmeadows. Mike Simcoe is General Motors global head of design. Tasmanian native, Calvin Luc has applied his talents as a member of BMW’s exterior design team, penning the design for the second-generation BMW X1, 2015’s BMW 1 Series (F20) facelift, and the third-generation (G01) BMW X3. Casey Hyun, Korean-born but raised in Australia, graduated from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 1996 with a degree in industrial and product design. In 2005, Hyundai invited him to join its design team. Over the next decade Casey honed Hyundai’s design philosophy of “fluidic sculpture” and designed at least 8 new cars – such as the Genesis G80, that enabled Hyundai to gain market share from the US to Brazil and India. Nicolas Hogios, the head designer of Toyota in Australia was born in 1974 in Sydney. Hogios and his 25man team job are to develop cars for the Asia-Pacific region as well as managing designing projects, presentations of the concept cars, as well as the negotiations of the directions his and other Toyota teams will follow in the designing of the models. Peter Arcadipane, of Ford Superbird fame, designed the first CLS Mercedes Benz (with a rear not unlike an AU Falcon)and left MB for Bejing Auto (BAIC).