STAFF CHANGE AT ŠKODA AUTO DESIGN DEPARTMENT

Jens Manske, Head of the Škoda Auto Design Department, is about to end his successful mission and join the VW Group Design Department on 1 February, 2008. His team has designed the next-generation Superb, several other vehicles the production of which is being prepared, as well as a number of concepts over the period of his engagement in the Company. At the VW Group Design Department led by Walter de Silva, Jens Manske is going to be responsible for new tasks.

Joining the Škoda Auto Design Department on the day when Jens Manske is leaving, the successor to Mr. Manske is Jozef Kaban, a manager who has been responsible for exterior design at Audi until now.

Jozef Kaban

Head of Audi AG Exterior Design Centre

Jozef Kaban was born on 4 January, 1973 in Námestov, Slovakia.

In 1991, after graduating from a school of art design four-year studies, he started to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Design in Bratislava, Slovakia majoring in Product And Industrial Design .

When still at the Academy, he took part in a Škoda brand designer competition organised by the Volkswagen Group, finished second and was offered a job at Volkswagen, first as a JuniorAssistant Designer, later as an Exterior Designer.

The person that discovered him for Volkswagen AG Jozef Kaban worked until 2003 and that also supported him substantially was Hartmut Warkuss.

In 1997, as a student supported by Volkswagen AG, Jozef Kaban received a Master of Art at the Royal College of Art Vehicle Design, thus becoming the first Slovak-born graduate in the entire history of the Royal College of Art.

Still in that year, Jozef Kaban received the “Giorgio Giugiaro Award for Design Innovation“ for his futuristic car concept.

Commissioned by the Volkswagen Group, he became responsible for developing the design of the Bugatti Veyron in 1999, and then worked in that position from the time of the first sketches until the point of launching mass production.

Looking for new challenges, Jozef Kaban left Wolfsburg for Ingolstadt in 2003. At AUDI he became responsible for the design of various mass-produced vehicles and concept cars.

Since 2006, Jozef Kaban has been working as Head of the AUDI AG Exterior Design Centre.

1000 BHP Mk 111 vRS Octavia........................................................

Mk III Fabia vRS 0 - 60 mph in 0.003 seconds, Mach 3 in 2.8 seconds

Mk III Fabia vRS 0 - 60 mph in 0.003 seconds, Mach 3 in 2.8 seconds

bit slow isnt it

Commissioned by the Volkswagen Group, he became responsible for developing the design of the Bugatti Veyron in 1999, and then worked in that position from the time of the first sketches until the point of launching mass production[/b'].

Mass production????? Have I missed something :rofl:

Mk III Fabia vRS 0 - 60 mph in 0.003 seconds, Mach 3 in 2.8 seconds

isnt that the Mk1 2.0l fabia ?

What if he made a car that was too good looking.

Would VW step in and pinch/block it?

isnt that the Mk1 2.0l fabia ?

Only when Lynsey is driving hers