Even though the ship was rescued and all vehicles removed, Mazda said it could not sell any of the cars as new or used, regardless of how little damage to the vehicles [source: Mazda]. Future of Auto Transport While some industry officials admit the auto transport market is slow to ...
to rev up the sedan effort, he hired mazda's lead north american designer, franz von holzhausen , and told him that he wanted a four-door car that seated seven. "that's an suv, not a sedan," von holzhausen responded. musk countered that von holzhausen had a rare opportunity to design...
Musk was CEO, and the Jonathan Ive of the car industry, star car designer Franz von Holzhausen, who had been the Design Director at GM and then Mazda, had decided to bet his career on the barely-standing Tesla and became their chief designer. A few weeks ago, when I stepped into the...