Hiroshi Aoki
DaihatsuDevelopment team member
Timeline
- 1987
Charade 3rd generation1987–1993Development team member
Worked with
- Hideyuki UedaDevelopment team member
A shape of many curves, aimed beyond the regions
The third generation was a model meant to win not only the regional areas that had been Daihatsu's main battleground, but also urban areas and export markets. The body was made slightly larger and given an aerodynamic shape with a Cd of 0.32. In charge were in-house designers Hiroshi Aoki and Hideyuki Ueda, who used many curved surfaces and tapered the rear, giving it an emotional shape reminiscent of French cars.
Daihatsu
Profile
An in-house designer at Daihatsu. With Hideyuki Ueda, he was in charge of the 3rd-generation Charade and gave it a styling with many curved surfaces and a tapered rear.
Translated from Japanese sources.
Daihatsu engineers
- Hideyuki UedaCharade
- Masahiro FukuzukaMove / Mira
- Tadashi AisakaCopen
- Takashi SonodaTanto
- Nobuhiko OnoMira
- Shinsuke HoriMove
- Takahiko KoyamaTanto
- Toyoji MotookaTanto