Miles Nurnberger

British automotive designer, born in 1976, who joined Aston Martin as design manager in 2008 and became Director of Design in 2018. After a year as Dacia Design Director he returned to Gaydon in 2022. The register credits him for the V12 Speedster and Valour.

Born in 1976, Nurnberger took a degree in automotive design at Coventry University in 1998. Torque called him a Briton whose father ran a graphic-design agency. Autocar records Lincoln from 2000 to 2003, then senior designer at Citroën and Peugeot until 2007. Dacia's appointment release names Lincoln as his first automotive-design steps and Citroën's exterior team as the post before Gaydon.

He joined Aston Martin Lagonda in January 2008 as design manager for exterior design. The first model he worked on was the One-77; he told Torque he sat with the metalworkers on the first three cars, fettling lines by hand. In 2013 Aston Martin named him Chief Exterior Designer, with Marek Reichman, on the CC100 Speedster Concept. He became Creative Director of exterior design, then Design Director in 2018.

When Aston Martin unveiled the V12 Speedster at Gaydon on 4 March 2020, the release identified him as Director of Design. He named the DBR1, CC100 and DB3S as references, and described the twin humps, the spine separating driver from passenger, and the bonnet nostril brought back to make space for the V12. Autocar later wrote that he penned the Speedster and the one-off Victor.

In June 2021 he left to become Design Director of Dacia and Lada from 1 September, reporting to Laurens van den Acker. He told Top Gear that van den Acker, a former California neighbour from their Ford years, had called him. Dacia announced on 11 May 2022 that he was leaving for personal reasons. Car Design News reported on 14 June that he had resumed the Gaydon post, with a slightly wider remit, under Reichman.

In the 11 July 2023 Valour release he described a return to a chiselled shape, away from the more sculptural series cars, with bold details and modern materials. The register credits him for the V12 Speedster and Valour. Aston Martin's site still named him design director in March 2025; MotorTrend used the same title that April. No departure notice has appeared through 16 August 2026.