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DICKIE BANNENBERG – Exterior Designer of award-winning Feadship JOY

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Tell us what car you drive.

My new BMW i3 arrives in a couple of months! I usually walk to work but for all those times when I don’t, it doesn’t make much sense to add to the city’s poor air quality. No big environmental sermon from me, but I think there will be a time ( not that far off ) when the idea that we filled our cars with inflammable liquids which caused small explosions in a combustion engine will be the subject of a sketch – a bit like the famous Bob Newhart one about Walter Raleigh and tobacco:

What was your dream car growing up, and have you ever had the chance to drive it?

The Batmobile, circa 1966. No.

Do you think automotive design influences yacht design, and how does it influence your own work?

Without a doubt it does. Surface shaping and geometry informs our exterior designs hugely. Three of our current team hail from the famous automotive design course at Coventry.

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