[Otto_Ing]

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/motorcycle-design-director-pierre-terblanche-quits-royal-enfield-327985.html

[ace.cafe]

It does not come as a surprise.

I don't know any details about why he quit, but my suspicions would be that the corporation placed too much limit on what he could do. Nothing frustrates a designer more than a straitjacket on creativity.

[Otto_Ing]

My suspicion was that he has been hired as a part of a marketing campaign and probably the other names too.

...and than if that "Duck" bike came out of his department. 

[Richard230]

Wasn't Terblanche working for that American company that makes very expensive and weird S&S-powered V-twin motorcycles (Confederate?) last year?  I think he has a habit of jumping around from here to there all of the time.  Perhaps he is getting a little forgetful in his old age and can't recall which motorcycle company he is working for this week?   

[ace.cafe]

Wasn't Terblanche working for that American company that makes very expensive and weird S&S-powered V-twin motorcycles (Confederate?) last year?  I think he has a habit of jumping around from here to there all of the time.  Perhaps he is getting a little forgetful in his old age and can't recall which motorcycle company he is working for this week?   

Yes, he does seem to move around a lot. He was at Confederate a while back. He may be hard to work with, or has a short attention span.

I am not the biggest fan of his work, but he is a protégé of Tamburini,  so he is capable.

I did have some hopes that he would really be able to shine with RE.
Oh well.

[Otto_Ing]

T&T might have complemented each others work well, Tamburinis work is very likeable and has a clean line to it, while Terblanches design is more wild and brings a chaotic element which is prerequisite for a "new" likeable clean design?

Just my amateur analysis.