Ms. Sortito came to prominence in 1995 when, helping to rejuvenate the James Bond franchise for MGM, she created a tie-in for the film "GoldenEye" with BMW, putting a new Bond (Pierce Brosnan) in a new model, the sleek and sporty Z3; sales of the car spiked (Ms. Sortito bought one herself), and the film was No. 1 at the box office its opening week.
On the convention exhibit floor last week, Joao Alfredo Paiva, an Embraer marketing analysis manager, showed off a model of the sleek 170 and explained that the aircraft was designed to accommodate both a first-class and a coach cabin.
The newest model is the sleek Veriton Z410G boasting a brilliant high-def 21.5-inch display and full desktop performance.
Panasonic, Olympus, Pentax and Nikon have in the past few years launched a new kind of camera that matches the quality of lenses of a professional model with the sleek, light body of a pocket, point-and-shoot device.
Sony Ericsson, for instance, modeled its sleek T280 on its $300 T650 phone.
The third vehicle to appear in Tesla's social media-burnished 12-year history, the Model X enters the automaker's lineup alongside the sleek Model S sedan.
On its perimeter the wood-and-brick bus-stop pavilions, utterly unlike the sleek glass models on city streets, recall another era.
If that happens, we will never see the sleek new models envisioned by Jason Castriota, who previously designed Ferraris at the Pininfarina studio.
Before Mercury, the two ends of Ford's spectrum were its inexpensive cars and trucks, which the founder, Henry Ford, encouraged buyers to buy in the color black, and the sleek Lincoln models, which were known for their streamlined appearance.
The company's bigger concern is that the new model doesn't come with the sleek hood that made the previous Jornadas look like the communicators on the old Star Trek.
