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Robert Cumberford is a former automotive designer for General Motors, author and design critic – widely known as Automotive Design Editor and outspoken columnist for ''Automobile'' magazine. Examples of Cumberford's critiques: : *The Dream cars of the 50's: "''myths'' created to make people dream about the future." : *The $2,500 Tata Nano: "perhaps the most significant car since the Ford Model T was introduced 100 years ago."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd )〕 : *The Jeep XJ: "One of the 20 greatest cars of all time." : *the NSU Ro80: “A handsome, modern-looking car with much cleaner lines than anything of the time.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = The New York Times, DENNIS HEVESI )〕 : *The Jaguar E-Type "Elegant, extremely phallic and a great middle-aged man's compensation,"〔 and "the ultimate automotive expression of phalliform perfection." 〔〔 : *The Ford Five Hundred:"It's a pretty good trick to make a brand-new car look old, bland and boring right out of the box. No doubt it's a good car, but one fundamentally uninteresting visually."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Automotive News, Richard Truett, October 2, 2004 )〕 : *The 2016 Acura NSX: Its "very hard to mess up the styling of a mid-engine sports car... but Acura has managed it."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Automobile Magazine, Robert Cumberford, January 26, 2016 )〕 : *The Tesla Model S: "I would happily own one."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Armormax.com, )〕 On the automotive industry, Cumberford wrote in 1998 that "a lot of automotive enthusiasm is based on what is undoubtedly immature excitement over excess." In 2014 he wrote that there is "no foreseeable future for the Italian coachbuilding firms," referring to the storied design houses of Bertone, Zagato, Ghia, Pininfarina and Giugiaro. On prominent automotive figures, Cumberford described Alec Issigonis, who received a knighthood "in recognition of his engineering genius,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Automotive Hall of Fame )〕 as "not terribly innovative in a mechanical sense." He wrote in 2004 that intensely controversial car designer Chris Bangle is "a man with the courage of his convictions and of solid character, and he is worthy of our admiration for that alone." Noted automotive cartoonist Stan Mott described Cumberford as "an intellectual automotive enthusiast."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Automobile Magazine, David Zenlea, March 30, 2011 )〕 ''Automobile'' editor Jean Lindamood Jennings said Cumberford "is highly opinionated, as every working car designer in the world today knows, sometimes painfully," adding that his design reviews have become "wildly popular."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = 2009 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Car designers, Manufacturers, Podcasts, Video, August 19th, 2007 )〕 At the 2013 LA Auto Show, Jennings said Cumberford "tends toward a certain cantankerous crustyness just shy of curmudgeonly."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = BMWCCA )〕 Cumberford won the 2013 ''Best Article of the Year Award'' from the Motor Press Guild for his article, "GM's Road Not Taken" about the ''LaSalle II Roadster'', published in ''Automobile'' magazine in March 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = MPG (Motor Press Guild), January 2014 )〕 ==Background== Cumberford grew up in Southern California, the son of a Texas-born housewife and a Scotsman from Chile who worked for L.A.'s streetcar company, the Los Angeles Railway.〔 He began sketching cars at age 15 and developed a strong interest in aircraft design as child,〔 later saying that he preferred aircraft design to automobile design.〔 He had wanted to study aeronautical engineering on scholarship at Caltech but attended instead the Art Center of Pasadena,〔 then known as the Art Center School, working in a grocery store and cleaning the classroom floors to help pay tuition.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Cumberford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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