David Ernest Bache

David Bache 1970s. Chief stylist for the Rover Car Company and British Leyland. The Rover P5,P6, SD1 and Range Rover models were all styled by his team and he had considerable influence on the Metro and Maestro models from Austin

The Series 2 Land Rovers are characterised and instantly recognisable, the world over by the curvy barrel sides designed by David Bache – the archetypal “Land Rover” look. This “face-lift” persists, to this day, in the current Land Rover Defender models

The Land Rover Series III was a masterful facelift overseen by Range Rover designer David Bache.

David Ernest Bache (14 June 1925 – 26 November 1994) was a British car designer.
For much of his career he worked with Rover.
Bache was born in Worcestershire, the son of Aston Villa and England footballer Joe Bache.
In 1948 he joined the Austin Motor Company as an apprentice.
In the Austin design office Bache worked under Dick Burzi, recruited from Lancia by Austin in 1929.
One of his first jobs was to design the dashboard of the Austin A30.
In 1954 Bache moved to Rover in Solihull, becoming its first ever stylist (the term 'stylist' was used at the time to differentiate the role from that of design engineer).
His first task was to update the P4 (60, 75 and 90 models), raising the boot height and enlarging the rear window.
He was also responsible for giving the Land Rover Series II a more domesticated appearance than its more agricultural predecessor.
The revised shape, completed in just six weeks lives on today, little changed, in Land Rover's Defender.
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