AutoWeek Lifetime Achievement Award

DETROIT, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary race driver and auto designer
Carroll Shelby will be honored with the first AutoWeek Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 13th annual AutoWeek Design Forum Wednesday, Jan. 11. Shelby
will accept the award from AutoWeek Editor and Associate Publisher Dutch
Mandel during the Design Forum's 7:30 p.m. dinner program at Cobo
Conference/Exhibition Center in Detroit.
"Carroll Shelby is, simply, the enthusiast's enthusiast," Mandel said of
the automotive icon. "He has done more stuff with and to cars to make them go
fast and grow in our hearts than any 10 other individuals in the business,
with a flair and tenacity that make us all hope he lives for another 83
years."
Coincidentally, on January 11 Carroll Shelby will celebrate his birthday
with the assembled Design Forum crowd.
Shelby's accomplishments as a race car driver include breaking land speed
records at Bonneville in 1954 for Austin Healey and winning the 24-hour
Le Mans in 1959. As a team manager, Shelby was a part of the FIA World Grand
Touring Championship, as well as Ford GT victories at Le Mans.
When his health caused him to give up racing in 1960, Shelby turned his
attention to automotive design, creating perhaps the greatest sports car and
one of the fastest road cars ever constructed -- the Shelby Cobra. The
aluminum-bodied 289 and 427 Cobra models and the subsequent Shelby Mustangs he
developed for Ford, made Carroll Shelby a household name in the 1960s.
In recent years, Shelby has broadened his professional reach into ranching and
horse breeding, a safari company, real estate and hotels, food production,
aviation, research and development and charity.
Following successful heart transplant surgery in 1991, Shelby created the
Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation, dedicated to providing assistance for
acute coronary and kidney care for children in need.
He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1992.

Other highlights of the 2006 AutoWeek Design Forum agenda are:

* Morning presentations by:
-- Peter Horbury, executive director of design, North America, Ford
Motor Company;
-- Steve Murkett, design manager, Porsche AG;
-- Joel Piaskowski, chief designer, Hyundai Motor America, Kia Design
and Technical Center;
-- Dicky Riegel, group president, Thor Industries; and
-- Bob Wheeler, president and CEO, Airstream Inc.

* Keynote dinner remarks by:
-- Giorgetto Giugiaro, president and chairman, ItalDesign. Celebrating
50 years in automotive design, Giugiaro has styled and produced more
than 200 cars; and
-- Academy Award(R)-winning John Lasseter, executive vice president,
creative, Pixar Animation Studios. Lasseter will preview Cars,
which opens in June 2006.

* Presentation of the 2006 AutoWeek Editors' Choice Awards

Complete Design Forum details are available at
http://www.autoweek.com/dforum .