Géza Lóczi

Géza Lóczi is a Hungarian-American car designer, Director of Design at Volvo Monitoring Concept Center [cite web|title=Resume of Géza Lóczi|publisher="Autoweb"|url=http://www.autoweb.com.au/cms/A_53465/title_Resume%20of%20Geza%20Loczi/newsarticle.html|accessdate=2008-02-14] (VMCC in Camarillo, California [cite web|title=2001 Volvo S60 - The perfect blend of style, safety and performance|publisher="Automedia"|url=http://www.automedia.com/2001-Volvo-S60/rts20001101v6/1|accessdate=2008-02-14] ).
He started drawing cars at the age of nine. When he was twelve, he carved cars out of wood and started painting them. He entered the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, a model car competition sponsored by General Motors.

After building seven models in seven years, Lóczi learned a lot about designing, proportion, painting, craftsmanship and managing projects. These 1/12 scale models led to a Styling Scholarship and a National Award winning model.

Before becoming professional Lóczi studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1980, Lóczi became a Design Manager at Volkswagen. After that Lóczi established his own consulting design company. In 1983 Lóczi worked as a consultant to Volvo in California, then moved to Sweden to work with the company. He moved back to California in 1985. A year later when Volvo started a studio in California, he became the Chief Designer.

He has been involved in the design of the Environmental Concept Car (ECC), P2 cars in production today (S80, V70 and S60 [cite web|title=The power and the prestige|publisher="Daily Telegraph"|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2000/12/23/emfvolv23.xml |date=2000-09-23|accessdate=2008-02-14] ), the Safety Concept Car (SCC) shown recently at the Detroit Motor Show. VMCC, the Volvo Cars think-tank [cite web|title=Volvo Monitoring & Concept Center: “We don’t predict the future, we create it!|publisher="The Volvo Owners Club"|url=http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/press/releases/idnr501.shtml|accessdate=2008-02-14] also designed the XC90 [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLTUVxlMghA&feature=related Volvo designers Géza Lóczi and Steve Martin give you a walk around the XC90 highlighting all the safety features] ] , Volvo's entry into the North American SUV market.

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