Pierre Leclercq is Opel's new design director and is thus in charge of leading the design of future German brand models. I was already at Stellantis, but in the same positions at Citroën.
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02/11/2026
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Hit's one new design director at Opel/Vauxhall. Pierre Leclercq was announced this monday (2 november) in office, so will lead the design of the next models of the brand.
It succeeds Mark Adams, who will retire after 25 years. The French was already in the Stellantis group, occupying the same functions but for the Citroën brand – where it will be replaced by Sandeep Bhambra.
Eight years of Stellantis, almost 30 careers
Graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in the United States of America in 1998, he went through Ford's Ghia studio in Italy and the BMW Group, where he worked on the various brands. In 2011, he became the design director of BMW M – the sports brand of the conglomerate.
Later, he had experiences as design director in Asia – both in Chinese Great Wall Motors as of 2013, and in South Korean Kia in 2017. He joined Stellantis on November 1, 2018 as design director at Citroën, a position he has been in since. Among the works of Pierre Leclercq is the design of the new 2 CV Concept presented last month.
Mark Adams leaves behind two and a half decades of work, during which he was an essential part in the design language Bold and Pure and introduced the identity signs of the current models – the Vizor, the Compass and also the Pure Panel inside.