Kiyoshi Sugimoto
SubaruDesign lead
Chief designer who finished the first Legacy's aircraft-canopy-like form as an in-house design
Timeline
- 1989
Legacy 1st generation1989–1993Design lead
Worked with
- Takao NakamuraDevelopment lead
- Eiji TatsumiDevelopment team member
- Masayuki UchidaDevelopment team member
With Giugiaro, only up to the sketches
The first Legacy used a wedge shape as its motif, with each pillar blacked out so the continuous glass evoked an aircraft canopy. It is sometimes said that Giugiaro was involved in the design, but chief designer Sugimoto has said that although there was contact with Giugiaro up to the sketch stage, the design was ultimately carried forward in-house.
Subaru
Profile
Chief designer of the first-generation Legacy. Using a wedge shape as the motif, he finished the pillars in black to give the car a form reminiscent of an aircraft canopy.
Translated from Japanese sources.
Subaru engineers
- Takao NakamuraLegacy
- Eiji TatsumiLegacy
- Akira TeshimaImpreza / Impreza WRX
- Takao TsuchiyaLegacy
- Masaru KatsuradaLegacy
- Masayuki UchidaLegacy / Legacy Outback
- Kazuyoshi ShimizuLegacy
- Hiroshi MoriImpreza / Impreza WRX