Tobias Sühlmann has been promoted to Director of Design at Bentley Motors, tasked with defining the design language for Bentley’s electrified future. He succeeds Andreas Mindt, who moves onto a new role as Head of Design at Volkswagen Passenger Cars.

February 1, 2023

Sühlmann joined Bentley Motors in October 2021, as Head of Exterior Design. With a 20-year career in automotive design, Sühlmann has held senior design positions at McLaren, Aston Martin, Bugatti and Volkswagen’s Potsdam Design Centre, which he joined in 2005 before moving to Volkswagen Design, in Wolfsburg, in 2007. Here he worked on the Passat, Arteon and Touareg, as well as different show cars.
He was instrumental in the design of the Bentley Batur, working under the direction of Andreas Mindt.
Commenting on his new role, Sühlmann said:
‘We are currently reimagining our design language at Bentley, and together, we look forward to taking Bentley to a new direction and making sure modern-day Bentleys are potent, inspirational and harmonious.’