A car symbolising progressive, considered evolution. The Peugeot 308 officially debuting at the 2007 edition of the Frankfurt Motor Show \u2013 the French marque\u2019s new C segment \u2013 perfectly embodies a process of gradual transition lasting five years, which culminated in early July this year.<\/p>\n
The year was 2002 and Robert Peugeot, faced with the knowledge that Gerard Welter, the mainstay of Peugeot design for over forty years, was to leave his directorship within a few years, opted for a soft changeover.<\/p>\n
In other terms, not a sudden replacement, supplanting Welter from one day to the next with a successor sourced externally or from within Peugeot ranks, but a gradual handover, to make full use of his experience and to pass on as much of his wisdom as possible to the new director.<\/p>\n
J\u00e9r\u00f4me Gallix, who had already worked with Peugeot from 1989 to 1995 before founding the Artware Design studio, which he headed until 2002, was chosen as Gerard Welter\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n
Now, after almost five years of working together, Gallix says: \u201cRobert Peugeot asked me to come back to the design centre in 2002, with the idea of a soft transition already in mind \u2013 a transition perfectly expressed in the 308, which truly represents both myself and Welter.\u201d<\/p>\n
J\u00e9r\u00f4me Gallix\u2019s first job upon his arrival was of vital importance to this succession as it was he who, over these six years, set up, fine-tuned and nurtured the virtual design system which now forms the foundations of all the work done at the style centre.<\/p>\n
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