Promised promotion, he went to Detroit but returned to Europe in June 1985 when Carl Hahn, Chairman of the Volkswagen Group, invited him to set up a centre for Advance Design and Strategy.

[3] In light of poor and declining sales, Renault then-chairman and CEO Raymond Levy recruited le Quément on a hunch that French design could jump-start the company.

[5] In 1987 Le Quément was appointed Senior Vice President of Quality and Corporate Design in 1995, when he also joined the Renault Management Committee.

Carlos Ghosn, in charge of Nissan, asked Le Quément to draw up a shortlist of designers for this position.

[9] After retiring from Renault, Le Quément started doing exterior design work for Lagoon catamaran, a division of Groupe Beneteau.