[wheelguy]

Gerard Detourbet, Managing Director, A2SDU (Alliance A-Segment Development Unit) – the unit in charge of developing Renault-Nissan Alliance's CMF-A platform, is no more. It is learnt that the 73-year-old Detourbet, who returned to France in September 2017 to work from there and undergo health treatment, breathed his last yesterday. He was ailing from cancer. A Renault official has confirmed the news.

"What a simple guy he was. He got a class about himself. He was very meticulous in work," says a person who knew Detourbet closely. The Frenchman moved to India in 2012 and worked out of Chennai to lead the team that delivered the Renault Kwid, and the later its platform sharing twin, the Datsun Redigo. The person quoted above says, "The platform for work which he used would be a very simple basic idea, and on top of it he could build a complex idea." That's quite similar to the cars he and his team delivered in India. The latest being the Renault Triber compact MPV.

Source: Autocar Professional

[ajmat]

He was also the father of the Logan and the frugal derivatives!