A motor engineer extraordinaire

摘要

Alec Issigonis, who died 20 years ago in October 1988, designed no fewer than three of the five best-selling cars in British motoring history. Of Mediterranean origin, although Enghsh in manner, Issigonis was an uncompromising individualist. He developed a lateral approach to car design and engineering and his cars are distinctively the creation of a strong personality. Issigonis is credited with saying "a camel is a horse designed by a committee" and he derided market research as "bunk".