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… The designer of the Citroën SM and CX but also the Renault Fuego and R25 and also the team of designers provided good advice when drawing the Renault Alpine, R5, R9, R11 and R21? He started his career as an 26 boy at Simca and came up with the French edition of the magazine - and not the books - of 'Tintin' (Tintin) in 1959 de Fulgur, a Simca from the eighties. The Simca 1100 bore features of that design. From 1962 he worked for Citroën where, among other things, he was responsible for updating the front of the DS. When his boss Flaminio Bertoni died, he became the head of the design department there. He also designed the GS, the Dyane and subsequent models in broad lines. Came in 1975 Citroën owned by Peugeot. Shortly afterwards Opron moved to Renault where he gave shape to the Fuego and the following models mentioned earlier. Almost all of them were box office successes. Except for the Fuego. In Great Britain people were talking about 'Few Go' and that says enough? External features of those types are the large rear windows and the aerodynamic design. In 1981 he switched to Alfa Romeo – where he designed the 'new' SZ – and opened his own design office ten years later. In 2000, the grandmaster, born in 1932, stopped his active activities. Robert Opron is regarded as one of the most successful and influential automotive designers of the second half of the twentieth century.

 

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