An interview to Qashqai's dad!

Geneva – Its latest creation has been a great success all aorund the world: we are talking about Nissan Qashqai, the new cross-over which is cathching everybody attention, brought great satisfaction in terms of sales. The vehicle definately represents a new trend philosophy inside the car market: this is what we discuss about with Stéphane Schwarz, Design Director at Nissan Design Europe in Paddington, London, during our visit in Geneva.

Biography
Stéphane Schwarz was born in Basilea (as Infomotor.co.uk's director!) the 14th January 1966. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design in Switzerland, graduating in the first class to emerge from the school in 1989. He worked at Pininfarina before moving to Nissan in 1994. He has led a number of projects, including concept and show cars such as Fusion and Kino as well as production cars with the new Primera. More recently, Schwarz led the Primera update for Nissan in Europe.

In 2003, Mr Schwarz became Associate Product Chief Designer at Nissan Design Centre in Japan where he worked cross functionally – including product planning, marketing and engineering – on various design projects until the final design selection for production.

After introducing him, let's start our chat with Stèphan Schwarz, to know more about the technical features of design and future developement of Nissan style.

Do you prefer interior design or exterior design?
Stéphane Schwarz answered by making a clear distinction ù: when he was youngm he firstly prefered working on exterior design, which he considered the more eye-catching part of a vehicle. Nevertless, after getting older and having more experience, he started to look with more attention to the interior of a car, which can definately express the real personality of a car.