Mitsubishi design boss behind your Pajero Sport & Xpander is retiring
Make no mistake about it: the Mitsubishi Motors brand has been experiencing a design renaissance in the last 5 years. That was what Mitsubishi needed following years of lukewarm vehicles thanks to a styling philosophy led by now-former chief designer Olivier Boulay. Now the man who led the post-Boulay design resurgence of Mitsubishi is retiring. Tsunehiro Kunimoto, Mitsubishi's Corporate Vice President and Division General Manager for the Design Division, will be retiring from the company effective April 1, 2020. His name may not sound familiar to many, but if you drive the current Pajero Sport, the Xpander MPV, and the facelifted L200/Strada, then the work he led should be very familiar. Kunimoto was the driving force behind the use of the Dynamic Shield fascia that you see in those models, as well as the other new-generation models not yet present in the Philippines like the Eclipse Cross, the new Delica, and the updated Outlander. Kunimoto, now 69 years old, has an unu