Welcome to the peterstevensdesign website. Peter Stevens is one of the UK’s best-known and most sought-after international transportation and product designers. He has won numerous honours for his work which includes creating road and race cars for McLaren, Lamborghini, BMW, Lotus, Prodrive, TWR, among others.

Right now, Peter is a consultant automotive designer, based in East Anglia, UK. He is engaged in consultancy for international clients, most of it confidential but some of it mentionable, and some images are publishable. For a brief rundown of his current consultancy, click here.

His designs win races and rallies. Some of his designs are specialist, bespoke
vehicles, others are created for mass production, and sell in their thousands. Before the demise of MG Rover in 2005, Peter’s MG TF was the best-selling sports car in the UK. It was voted ‘the world’s most beautiful cabriolet’ in 2003.

Peter’s cars are in automotive collections across the world, and have been shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as London’s Design Museum. He has been Visiting Professor of Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art and twice nominated as the UK’s Prince Philip Designer of the Year.

Both Peter's parents were artists, and his uncle, Denis Jenkinson, was the motoring journalist who read pace notes alongside Stirling Moss in the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR that won the 1955 Mille Miglia road race.

As a sculpture student at St Martin's School of Art he trained under the sculptor Frank Martin and the painter Peter Blake. He followed this up with a Master of Design course at the Royal College of Art. Peter was also one of the first tutors on the course, and has had a long association with the college.

Among Peter’s best known road and race designs are the McLaren F1 road car, the 1999 Le Mans-winning BMW, the Lotus Elan, the Lotus Esprit revision, Jaguar’s XJR-15, and the Subaru Impreza P1 road car as well as the world rally series-winning Subaru Impreza WRCs. During his career, Peter has worked with many of the world’s leading transportation companies, including Automobili Lamborghini, BMW, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Rolls Royce and Subaru.

Until April 2005, he was consultant Director of Design for MG-Rover. Leading a small team of highly motivated designers at Longbridge since 1999, he had been responsible for revising MG-Rover’s design direction. During this time, MG-Rover’s TCV, the new MG TF, and MG’s Z cars with 2004/5’s Rover and TF coupes as well as the MG SV sportscar were warmly received.

Alongside his well-known automotive design, Peter has long experience in creating and revising brand and graphic design. He sees all his design work as integral to a corporate culture. "A designer's job is to take a hold on the whole thing, I see a designer's responsibility as being beyond a single item. Product, and its designer must take account of the corporate environment which surrounds it," explains Peter.

Peter is committed to the idea that designers can work creatively with technology and materials, and he considers aerodynamics in particular, to be both a science and an art, an essential tool for the designer.

Peter has a long association with the Royal College of Art’s renowned Vehicle Design course. He was a founder lecturer on the course, and became Visiting Professor in 1999. A special RCA award in 1994 acknowledged Peter’s long association with the college.

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