Styling

Mercedes-Benz is attracting a huge number of new customers from other brands with cars such as the coupé-styled CLA compact. More than half of the CLA’s European sales have been conquests.

Opel/Vauxhall’s new design chief designate Dave Lyon has left General Motors less than a week before scheduled to take up the post. Lyon was due to replace current Opel design boss Mark Adams on Wednesday.

Fully recognising China’s tremendous significance as a driver for creativity, the BMW Group opens a Designworks studio and a Connected Drive Lab in Shanghai. Both