Hideyuki Ueda
DaihatsuDevelopment team member
Timeline
- 1987
Charade 3rd generation1987–1993Development team member
Worked with
- Hiroshi AokiDevelopment team member
Praised by experts, slow to sell in Japan
The styling of the third generation, handled by Hiroshi Aoki and Hideyuki Ueda, was highly praised by experts and critics on its debut, and it is said to have earned a certain recognition even in Europe, where Daihatsu's sales network was weak. In Japan, the market that mattered most, however, sales struggled to grow. Besides the rise in class and price, the article names its "too beautiful styling" as the biggest cause of the struggle.
Daihatsu
Profile
An in-house designer at Daihatsu. With Hiroshi Aoki, 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
- Hiroshi AokiCharade
- Masahiro FukuzukaMove / Mira
- Tadashi AisakaCopen
- Takashi SonodaTanto
- Nobuhiko OnoMira
- Shinsuke HoriMove
- Takahiko KoyamaTanto
- Toyoji MotookaTanto