Mitsubishi announces the retirement of Tsunehiro Kunimoto as Vice President of Design. The Japanese designer has been replaced by Seiji Watanabe, General Manager Design Division. Kunimoto, 69 years old, moved to Mitsubishi from Nissan in 2014 implementing a style revolution whose effects can be seen on products of recent years, such as the Mi-Tech, Engelberg and E-evolution concept cars.
During his 34-year career at Nissan, Tsunehiro Kunimoto has designed many of the Japanese manufacturer’s most famous cars, from the Skyline to the concept car from which the 350Z was born. Graduating from Musashino University he joined Nissan in 1975, after 20 years he became head of design for the Japanese manufacturer in the USA, in 2000 Design director Nissan and Infiniti and after fourteen years he left the company then headed by Carlos Ghosn.
