Philippe Guédon
Philippe Guédon is an engineer and a French personality of the world of the car.
Engineer of the Arts and Métiers, it starts by working for Simca which it leaves 10 years later after the study of the 1100, one of the successes for the car manufacturer. Later, it will be inspired largely by this study to create the Rancho. After a meeting with Jean-Luc Lagardere, it becomes one of the persons in charge of automobile division, just created, of Matra and to carry out its dream: to create cars. Only or while joining manufacturers, Matra under his crook will launch successively the 530, the Baghera Rancho, then the Murena. But the name of Philippe Guédon will remain in the history of the car as being the inventor of the Espace, creating new a automobile Segment and a Néologisme: the Monospace. Philippe Guédon is an innovator as regards automobile architecture. He will define the creation of a car like a work which brings you closer to the feeling of plenitude and achievement that has a woman when it gives the life . Become chairman of Matra, it is named in May 2002 with the presidency of the board of trustees of Matra within the Groupe Lagardere. But this honorary station showed the will of Lagardere to separate from her automobile branch, which did not form any more part of the strategy of the group. Moreover, Renault had then took again construction and the design of the new models of Space, initially manufactured in the Matra factory of Romorantin and the revolutionist cut monospace Avantime, designed and built by Matra for Renault, had not found its public with the beginnings of the year 2000. After the repurchase of Solex, it last car designed by Philippe Guédon within Matra Automobile will be the small car M72 (the car-motor bike), returning to the initial concept launched by Lagardere with creation of Matra of the “car of the buddies”.
Man with the extended culture, with an attraction for architecture (its model being Le Corbusier), the literature, the theater, the cinema, the history of the car, Philippe Guédon is regarded as a “automobile free-thinker”, clashing a little in the world of the automobile decision makers. He will have also known to federate a welded team of collaborators impassioned like Jean-Louis Caussin, Enzo Garavelloni, Roger Charbonnel in his automobile adventure.
From now on owner of its small cell “Spaces Development”, it collaborates with several manufacturers but especially pointed out himself by his collaboration with the Groupe Bolloré for his design of the Blue Because, an entirely electric car of city.
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