Retiring Ford Design Chief Moray Callum Reflects Nearly 40 Years of Work
Since 2014, Callum has led Ford's design efforts. Before he retires next week, he talked about his hits, and some of what he's learned.
Spend a career designing cars, and there will be a few that aren't hits. There will be lines you later wish you had or hadn't drawn, and details that aren't quite right. There will also be hard-won perspective.
"People are still driving around in these cars," Ford vice president of design Moray Callum said recently. "I don’t want to tell them they could have been better."
So he'll keep those thoughts to himself. As the head of Ford's design team since 2014, Callum has overseen much of the brand's big moves recently, including the Mustang Mach-E and the new Bronco and Bronco Sport. And after nearly 40 years in the industry, most of them with Ford and its subsidiaries, he's retiring, effective May 1. Renault's Anthony Lo, who made the move to Ford at the beginning of this month, will replace him.
Over the years, Callum has worked on Mustangs, the Explorer, and the Fusion. He's actually taken a couple of stabs at the Bronco. During a run with Mazda in the early 2000s, he had a hand in the MX-5, the CX-7, as well as the Mazda2, Mazda3, Mazda5, and Mazda6.
(photo credit: Ford)
