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Patrick Le Quément was born on 4 February, 1945 in Marseille, France, is an A businesspeople from Marseille. Discover Patrick Le Quément's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Automotive designer
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 4 February 1945
Birthday 4 February
Birthplace Marseille, France
Nationality France

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1945

Patrick Gilles Marie Le Quément (born 4 February 1945 in Marseille) is a retired French car designer, formerly chief designer of Renault.

Born in France but brought up in the United Kingdom, Le Quément holds a BA Hons.

degree in Product Design from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, and an MBA from Danbury Park Management Centre.

1966

Le Quément joined Simca of France in 1966 after graduation, but left and set up his own design business which failed.

1968

He returned to England and joined Ford in 1968 as a designer.

1982

Here his signature products included the Ford Cargo truck, and 1982's seminal Ford Sierra, ridiculed at the time for its jelly mould shape.

The latter car was designed at Ford's engineering and research centre in Cologne-Merkenich, Germany.

1985

Promised promotion, he went to Detroit but returned to Europe in June 1985 when Carl Hahn, Chairman of the Volkswagen Group, invited him to set up a centre for Advance Design and Strategy.

In light of poor and declining sales, Renault then-chairman and CEO Raymond Levy recruited le Quément on a hunch that French design could jump-start the company.

1987

But before he took the job as vice president, corporate design in 1987, le Quément demanded structural changes in the role of design at Renault, telling Levy: his department would no longer answer to engineering; outside consultants were removed; the design team was doubled to more than 350 people; the department took a seat on the executive board; and personally, le Quément answered to no one but the chairman.

In 1987 Le Quément was appointed Senior Vice President of Quality and Corporate Design in 1995, when he also joined the Renault Management Committee.

1994

His team's products since have included Twingo, Mégane and Mégane II – which he later admitted in an interview with Automotive News Europe magazine, was too much of a bold design; Scénic; the Espace models of 1994 and 1998; Kangoo; Laguna models of 1994; Avantime and the Vel Satis of 2002.

Le Quément's motto is Design = Quality, and says his structural changes of Renault design were to develop an independent and innovative formal language: "Up to just a few years ago, I would have given you the name of individual products – but today I would be more inclined to say Renault Design. So basically we have abandoned what I call 'styling esperanto', namely the formal language used by most other manufacturers".

1999

He is the head of Joint Design Policy Group formed by Renault-Nissan design body, since it was founded in 1999.

Louis Schweitzer asked him to analyse the design organisation of Nissan in 1999.

Le Quément advised establishment of a head designer position, divorced from industrial tasks.

Carlos Ghosn, in charge of Nissan, asked Le Quément to draw up a shortlist of designers for this position.

Shiro Nakamura was Le Quément's favourite and became head designer at Nissan.

2002

In 2002 he was the winner of the Lucky Strike Designer Award, and he sits on the board of the Europa Academy for Automotive Excellence.

Then, Ghosn, CEO of Renault Group, asked Le Quément to prepare his retirement from Renault, advising his successor.

Laurens van den Acker was then hired at Renault.

2009

On 10 April 2009, Le Quément announced his retirement in October 2009.

He was replaced at Renault by Laurens van den Acker.

After retiring from Renault, Le Quément started doing exterior design work for Lagoon catamaran, a division of Groupe Beneteau.