Robert Lešnik is a car designer

Automotive design

Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles. This most commonly refers to automobiles but also refers to motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans...

, born 1971 in Limbuš

Limbuš

Limbuš is a village on the right bank of the river Drava to the west of Maribor in northeastern Slovenia. It belongs to the Maribor urban municipality.The local Parish Church is dedicated to Saint James and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor...

, a village near Maribor

Maribor

Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....

 Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

. After three failed attempts to enter the Academy of Fine Art and Design Ljubljana he registered at the University of Pforzheim

Pforzheim

Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It is world-famous for its jewelry and watch-making industry. Until 1565 it was the home to the Margraves of Baden. Because of that it gained the nickname...

, and while there he took an exam to work with Volkswagen

Volkswagen

Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...

 — and received employment.

Since April 2007, he has worked with Kia Motors

Kia Motors

Kia Motors , headquartered in Seoul, is South Korea's second-largest automobile manufacturer, following the Hyundai Motor Company, with sales of over 1.4 million vehicles in 2010...

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He won the "Designer of the year, 2006" award, a Slovenian award for industrial design.

Design contributions

• Volkswagen Passat, MK6
• Volkswagen Eos
  Volkswagen Eos
  The Volkswagen Eos is a four-seat retractable hardtop coupe convertible, introduced in 2006 as the successor to the Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet. The Eos is Volkswagen's first production coupe since the last Corrado in 1995....
  
   design team headed by Peter Schreyer
  Peter Schreyer
  Peter Schreyer is an automobile designer, widely known for his design contributions to the Audi TT and as the Chief Design Officer at Kia Motors ....
  
  , Head of Volkswagen Design.
• Volkswagen Scirocco
  Volkswagen Scirocco
  The Scirocco is a 3-door Coupe manufactured by German automaker Volkswagen, undergoing two generations of development between 1974 and 1992 and reintroduced in a third generation in August 2008.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Volkswagen Iroc, concept car for Scirocco
• Volkswagen Concept C, concept car for Eos

External links

• http://www.egoxmass.com/oblikovanja/default.asp?ItemID=57&cid=3