Donato Coco

Donato Coco (* 1956 in Foggia ) is an Italian automobile designer. Since January 2010 he is design director at Lotus and forwards so that the activities of Lotus Cars and Lotus Engineering. Coco reported to the Lotus design boss Russell Carr.

Donato Coco studied architecture in Besançon, France, before he received his master's degree in automotive design (Vehicle Design) from the Royal College of Art in London. During his time at the Royal College of Art, he received in 1983 as part of a design competition the first prize from the hands of the then reigning in the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Shortly thereafter, he became chief designer for compact cars at Citroen. Where he led the design of the Xsara Picasso, C2, C3, and C4. On 8 November 2005, he joined as a successor to Frank Stephenson at Ferrari. There he designed the models F430 Scuderia and F430 Spider, California, 599XX and 458 Italia. He left Ferrari, Flavio Manzoni where was appointed to succeed him in September 2009.