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Aug. 7th, 2008
Andrea Pininfarina, CEO/Chairman of the Pininfarina design house has died in a Vespa accident.
Pininfarina as a company is responsible for a sizeable number of the world's prettiest cars, and his death comes during a major corporate restructuring. I hope that, despite this sad news, they keep on making pretty designs for a long time.
This is the nearest I have to a Pininfarina-designed car:
( Image below cut )
MG were unable to get the proportions right for the GT version of their open-top tourer. Pininfarina adjusted the height of the windscreen and some other details and the result is, IMO, a very pretty shape.
Pininfarina as a company is responsible for a sizeable number of the world's prettiest cars, and his death comes during a major corporate restructuring. I hope that, despite this sad news, they keep on making pretty designs for a long time.
This is the nearest I have to a Pininfarina-designed car:
( Image below cut )
MG were unable to get the proportions right for the GT version of their open-top tourer. Pininfarina adjusted the height of the windscreen and some other details and the result is, IMO, a very pretty shape.