Professor Peter Stevens (born 1943) is a British car designer .
16-403: Peter Stevens may refer to: Peter Stevens (car designer) (born 1945), British car designer Peter Stevens (Manitoba politician) Peter Stevens (RAF officer) (1919–1979), German-Jewish RAF bomber pilot and prison of war escapee Peter F. Stevens (born 1944), English botanist Peter P. Stevens (1909–1989), head college football coach for
32-642: Is Mark Tisshaw, a former deputy editor, news editor and reporter for the magazine. 1895–1901 Henry Sturmey 1901–?[after 1914] Herbert Walter Staner ?–? Hugo Massac Thomas Buist 1930–1938 Harold Carlisle Lafone 1955–1968 Maurice Armstrong Smith 1968–1975 Peter Garnier 1975–1985 Ray Hutton ?1985–?1991 Bob Murray 1991–1997 Michael Harvey 1997–2001 Patrick Fuller 2001–2006 Rob Aherne 2006–2011 Chas Hallett (editor of What Car? 2011–2014) 2011–2013 Jim Holder (editor of What Car? 2014–2016) 2014–2017 Chas Hallett 2017–present Mark Tisshaw Autocar has been licensed to publishers around
48-597: Is a consultant, designer and lecturer. He is involved in the design and application of hybrid technology, including a high performance electric race car. Twice nominated as the UK’s Prince Philip Designer of the Year, Peter Stevens has won numerous honours for his work, including 2002 Automotive Designer of the Year by Autocar . His work includes creating road and race cars for McLaren, Lamborghini, BMW, Lotus, MG Rover and Prodrive. His well-known designs include
64-447: Is editor and other team members include Steve Cropley, Rachel Burgess, James Attwood, Matt Prior, Matt Saunders and Felix Page. Autocar has several international editions, including China, India, New Zealand, and South Africa. The publication was launched as The Autocar by Iliffe and Son Ltd. "in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage" on 2 November 1895 when, it is believed, there were only six or seven cars in
80-588: Is one of the UK's best-known vehicle designers. He is currently a design consultant , teacher and lecturer. Stevens trained at Central St Martin's School of Art and then, the Royal College of Art . He began his career in the 1970s as a designer at Ford, then Ogle design. He also began his long career as a tutor of Vehicle Design students at the RCA at this time . He spent five years as chief designer at Lotus Cars in
96-454: The Austin 7 Gordon England Sunshine Saloon. Autocar has been published weekly throughout its life with only strikes in the 1970s interrupting its frequency. The magazine's name was changed from The Autocar to Autocar at the start of 1962. In 1988 Autocar absorbed the rival magazine Motor , with which it had done battle on the newsstands since 1903. From the 7 September 1988 issue
112-713: The 1980s, where he developed the Esprit revision and designed the Lotus Elan (M100). He then designed the Jaguar XJR-15 and later in 1990 became Chief Designer at McLaren Cars. He was responsible for the design of the McLaren F1, launched in 1993. After a spell as chief designer at Lamborghini, he returned to the UK, undertaking consultancy for Prodrive, BMW, Williams and Toyota. Alongside his automotive design consultancy, he became Visiting Professor of Vehicle Design at
128-460: The 31 May 2006 issue. In 2023, Autocar digitised its entire archive dating back to 1895. The Autocar Archive is available to subscribers online. In the 1950s, the magazine's sport editor, John Cooper , used Cooper T11 parts to create the Cooper-Alta . Former Autocar writers include Russell Bulgin , Chris Harris , and former Top Gear presenter James May . In 1992, May
144-449: The McLaren F1 road car, the 1999 Le Mans-winning BMW V12 LMR , the Lotus Elan, Subaru’s Impreza P1 and world rally series–winning WRC as well as Jaguar’s XJR-15. Some of his designs include; Autocar (magazine) Autocar (stylized in all caps ) is a weekly British automobile magazine published by Haymarket Media Group . It was first published in 1895 and refers to itself as "the world's oldest car magazine". Mark Tisshaw
160-744: The Royal College of Art, London, until October 2014. He was appointed as design director at the MG Rover Group in 2000. As consultant director of design for Mahindra & Mahindra in India, from 2005, Stevens oversaw the introduction of the M&;M GIO and the sell-out Mahindra XUV500 . From 2011-12, Stevens was director of design , at Rivian Automotive , a green auto manufacturer located in Rockledge, Florida , USA. Currently, Stevens
176-500: The Temple University Owls Peter John Stevens (born 1995), Slovenian swimmer Peter Fayssoux Stevens (1830–1910), American soldier, educator and clergyman See also [ edit ] Peter Stephens (disambiguation) Peter Stevenson , former Irish Gaelic footballer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
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#1732791519353192-536: The United Kingdom. L. J. K. Setright suggests that the magazine was set up by Henry Sturmey as an organ of propaganda for Harry J. Lawson , founder of the Daimler Company and a journalist on the magazine in its early days. Henry Sturmey stood down as editor of The Autocar magazine and left the company in 1901. Autocar claims to have invented the road test in 1928 when it analysed
208-603: The magazine became Autocar & Motor . It reverted to Autocar for the 21 September 1994 issue. The magazine has scored many firsts in its history, including the first full road tests and independent performance tests of the Jaguar XJ220 , McLaren F1 , and the Porsche 911 GT1 . It was also the first magazine to produce independently recorded performance figures for the Bugatti Veyron , which were published in
224-480: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Stevens&oldid=877443080 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Peter Stevens (car designer) Stevens
240-448: Was fired from Autocar after he added an acrostic into the 1992 "Road Test Yearbook". May had to write every review in the issue. Each spread featured four reviews and each review started with a big red capital letter known as a rubricated initial . May was bored and to alleviate the boredom, he wrote the reviews so the first four spreads would spell the words "ROAD", "TEST", "YEAR" and "BOOK". The other pages had another acrostic but that
256-649: Was not immediately recognizable as it was spread over the rest of the magazine, spelling seemingly random letters starting with "SOYO" and "UTHI". After it was published, readers discovered it. This was the one that got James May fired because it used profanity. The message, when punctuated was: "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse." Current Autocar writers include Richard Bremner, used car expert James Ruppert, Editor at Large Matt Prior and Editor in Chief Steve Cropley. The current editor
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