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Your correspondent was getting into a rental car with a well-endowed female friend. From the passenger side, I heard the sound of her opening the driver's side door--followed by a sharp expletive. "What's the matter?"

"I guarantee you a man designed this car," she said, hand on her chest. "Did you ever get in a new car, pull the door open and hit yourself in the tits?"

Female car designers are definitely few and far between, with a few standouts (Chelsia Lau has been a chief designer at Ford since the '90s, and Nissan's Dianne Allen was lead designer on their Titan pickup), but that may be slowly changing. At next month's Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York, Lincoln will be pushing "auto chick power" by introducing Joann Jung, Amy Kim and Jennifer Hewlett, three rising design stars who worked on the MKT Concept on display at the show.

Designer Jennifer Hewlett added a plush, hand-knotted rug made from banana silk covering the floor and complementing the contrasting Creamy Pearl chromium-free leather seats, while Amy Kim, in charge of the elegant metalwork, contributed sculpted door handles with sparkling, curved dimples reminiscent of beadwork.

Joann Jung was responsible for the instrument panel and crystal-inspired center consol that runs the entire length of the vehicle to create a feeling of continuity between the upper and lower portion of the cabin, as if all the occupants of the cabin were sitting together in a living room. A patented solid-state lighting technology allows first-ever 3-D projection on a contoured surface and displays information using intuitive shapes and spaces on the center stack.

via auto channel