[3] Hall's first blackboard sketch of a two-seater convertible car in the early 1980s resulted in him being offered a job by Mazda Motors although he has no formal engineering qualifications.
Hall is considered to be the "biological father" of the MX-5 (known in the United States as the Miata), although he was not responsible for the engineering and styling work that brought it to production.
[4] Hall lived in Malaysia from 2004 to 2011,[5] working for Proton as Head of product planning and programme engineering.
[6] In September 2014 Hall joined Geely, where it has been said he's been tasked to come up with an all-new mass-selling vehicle to hit the spot with western markets.
[8] He is married to Karen,[5] is the twin brother of Jim Hall (who worked in product management at General Motors),[9] and is fluent in Japanese.