CAR DESIGNER EXTRAORDINAIRE

APOLLO’S N, ARROW, NARAN AUTOMOTIVE, INTENSA EMOZIONE. NOT ONLY IS THIS A GREAT LINE-UP OF HYPERCARS, IT IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE RESUME OF JOWYN WONG AKA MR. WYN.

Q. Who is Mr Wyn?

JW. My Name is Jowyn Wong, as far back as I can remember I was always sketching, whether it’d be sketching animals, anime, nature, and of course cars. My family were all into cars, so I’d always remember to be surrounded my high performance cars since I was young, naturally the two interests combined and all I wanted to do was to design supercars.

Q. What was your first major opportunity and experience with Automotive Design?

JW. My first major opportunity was at McLaren in 2012, where I worked with Frank Stephenson, he was also a sort of a mentor at the time. During my time there I worked on projects such as P1, 650s and 570s.

Q. How much of a role does Art play into your craftsmanship?

JW. I think exercising any creative endeavours all count as art, the entire process of building this calibre of vehicles is art in my opinion

Q. What are the biggest challenges designing a Supercar?

JW. Biggest challenge is largely on the regulation, its like designing in a box, within a box, within a box. You have to have the experience to be able to effectively navigate your design intentions around somewhat irrelevant regulatory factors, together with engineers. You need to be able to have a great team to execute all the intentions to realise the design fully, but at the same time have the ability to adapt and navigate through all the challenges, I just see this as an excuse to make the design better and the overall product better resolved.

Q. What do you think of the future of Automotive?

JW. Its a forever changing landscape, electronification is the buzzword these days and I fully embrace it. I cant wait to do something on an EV platform that is radical. I believe there are many challenges ahead especially for big oem brands, I expect massive disruption from China’s brands once they’ve become mainstream and enter the western world at fractions of the prices but double the quality and standard features, lots of turbulent times ahead! The good news is, hyper cars will always be here to stay!

Q. Tell us your experience working with Apollo, how did you create such a monster of a car?

JW. I was able to let loose, I’ve never been the type to follow rules or trends, especially in car design or in the car design community. I design for the real world and what customers want, not what brands tell them they should have. Having understood the fundamentals, I envisioned and operated outside of what would be considered normality back then. The Apollo IE features a large amount of inspiration from LMP1 cars and principles of natures design such as apex predators, it features many fins aggressive lines and a huge wing, its also highly sculpted for aerodynamic performances. I wasn’t afraid to realise the entirety of what I had envisioned, with wings, fins, aggressive creases etc. Now every other modern HyperCar all feature these similar elements of design.