@@Gois83 Pininfarina designed the interior. Chris Bangle designed the controversial exterior while at FIAT’s Centro Stile (which I personally love by the way).
Peugeot 505 was a great looking design. The 1956-60 Alfa Giulietta 750 SWB Spider was an even more beautiful design than the later 101. I was fortunate enough to own both of these right from the factory.
Though wasn't the most reliable car have ever owned, my '72 Fiat 124 Spider convertible was certainly the best handling, and the thing cornered like it was on the proverbial 'rails'. Also had one of the best and simplest convertible designs, that never leaked and which you could easily put up and fold down from the driver's seat with just one hand.
The 504 is the quintessential Buenos Aires taxi, at least it was when I went there. There was an Argentine Pick-up version exported to Brazil in the 90s.
Modern car makers should take note, and learn many lessons from the great Italian design houses on how to make elegant, even beautiful cars. Pininfarina is top of that tree. The only modern car I’ve seen that holds a candle to the great work that the likes of Pininfarina, Bertone, Ghia and ItalDesign produced back in the day is the Gordon Murray T50. Sad to think that BMW’s design language, which has only recently been abandoned, was largely devised by an Italian designer - the great Giovanni Michelotti - looking at modern BMWs and the like, it’s hard to believe that Italian car design ever existed. My personal favourite Pinin car design is the Cisitalia 202 - still a truly beautiful example of automotive art.
2005 Maserati Quattroporte and 2007 Granturismo before updates are the ultimate pure modern classics and the last before the passing of Sergio Pininfarina. Perfect proportions and clean uncluttered timeless shape.
I was driving a rental 406 Coupe in France when an American cruise ship disgorged its clientele. The car was mobbed in excitement. They had never heard of Peugeot and assumed it was European supercar exotica.
One of my favourite cars that bears the Pininfarini name was actual designed originally by Sir William Lyons. The Jaguar XJ6 saloon was always a handsome car, be it in Series I or Series II form. Now bring in Pininfarini to just give it a slight makeover. In many peoples opinion the result was one of the best looking four door saloons ever made. The XJ6 Series III. It is a very interesting car because the changes were so subtle, it shows the genius of Pininfarini. Go look at some pictures of a Series II and then compare them to a Series III.
William Lyons was an extraordinarily talented car designer - I still think that the XJ6/12 is one of the most beautiful saloon cars ever made. I do however love what Pininfarina did to make the series 3 - the subtle changes to the roof line, new bumpers and rear end really make the car. The XJC coupe version is simply stunning - although I don’t think there was any Italian input until the series 3.
Chi come Pininfarina? Che perfezione di proporzioni. Con questo video ho scoperto che è opera di Pininfarina anche una delle mie preferite coupé inglesi, la MG B! Mi cospargo di cenere
I saw my first Lancia Aurelia at a great restoration garage in New Jersey. Safely perched on a lift. The oil pan was a work of art. Have only seen in photos. Great looking convertible 😃
Great video and selection of cars, amongst the several masterpieces designed in Pininfarina! Just a note, for the sake of accuracy: Aldo Brovarone designed the coupè version of the Lancia Gamma; while the sedan origin has to be referred to a proposal made in Pinifarina by Leonardo Fioravanti for 1800 model of British Motor Company, in the late '60s.
Giorgetto Giugiaro for me. The Alfa 159, the Brera, the 156 redesign, the Audi 80 and Audi Coupe, the basis for the Quattro and which set Audi's design language to the modern day. The Lancia Delta, Maserati Quattroporte, the MkI Golf. And, of course, the brilliant Fiat Panda.
I think the Peugeot 505 is better looking that the 504 with it's silly half sloped-off trunk. It just looks odd. I also think you should have included the Guilia Coupe version of the Spyder as one is just as pretty as the other. Finally, the Alfa Romeo 1750 Duetto Spyder like Dustin Hoffman drove in the graduate is drop dead gorgeous. I had the later model with the chopped off tail which IMO wasn't nearly as beautiful. Long live Pininfarina.
I do believe Pininfarina is the greatest coach designer/builder (carrozzeria) ever. I liked your picks. I have a 1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 Spider, the series 1 style, (The "Duetto" style). Personally, I like it more than my first car, the great 124 Fiat Spider, you mention. I also had a Fiat Dino Spider, which was also very cool (and forgotten). But, you ask if we thought you missed something? How about the second series Nash Healey Roadster!
I'm Alfa to the core but appreciate why you omitted the 'Duetto'. I think it's still the most 'unique' design to make it into mainstream production numbers, all the more intriguing when you see it beside the sedan and coupe's all sharing basically the same underpinnings. Peugeot 406 coupe is also worthy of mention in your list. Something I would always turn back to appreciate after I'd parked it (if I owned one). Sublime.
Forgot to mention the workhorse of the workhorses, or better said the car that replaced the camel in Africa, the legendary Peugeot 404. Even well into the seventies Parisian taxi drivers often chose the 404 over the 504 as it was even tougher. And of course the Fiat Dino Spider deserves a place on the shortlist, totally different but brilliant with a very distinguished shape.
MG had tried to put a roof on the "B" more than once before giving PininFarina a chance. They had been trying to retain the roadster windshield, and it just didn't work without the extra 2".
What I gathered, was Pininfarina was gathering large Debt. For the Ferrari Enzo, on a cocktail napkin, Ferrari people inked a rudimentary likeness with F1 inspiration. ABOVE ALL, Body design became closely linked to wind tunnel testing; integration of downforce into Body Without use of a wing; reduction of drag; incorporatation of FLOW to minimize port intakes; and complete use of CAD design after initial concept sketch. So yes, they designed the Artist's Soul out of it.
I've always associated Pininfarina with curves and Giugaro with angles - the Gamma coupe being the exception. The 164 was a dream, and it must have taken a great effort to ruin it when Alfa facelifted it to become the Super
Thrilled to see the 124 appear on this list. Between my father and I, we had nine of them. Strong cars when hitting something, I must say. 35 years after I last owned one, I still often dream of driving one of the four I owned (an Alfa GTV-6 replaced that last Fiat). As far as the 164 goes, I was mortified when it appeared. Looked like it was hit with a baseball bat in the face. Even more ugly than the Milano (33), which replaced the lovely GTV-6 body with something that looked as if it had already been rear-ended. But how I loved my cars!
@@romanpaladino Which car did you have? The Alfetta? Pretty car.The ride height was raised on the GTV-6 in the front, yes. But I don't believe it was detuned. 154hp with the Bosch L-Jetronic. It did have a catalytic converter. The 124's of 1977ish had air pumps that killed power. Also: a half-mile up my street is the mechanic I use. In his lot for a tuneup is a black Callaway twin-turbo GTV-6. I flipped out. Never saw one in person before. Want!
The first one Cisitalia has 1 litre engine but reached 200 km/h 125 miles per hour I underline was 1947 beautifully shaped lines astonishingly aerodynamic
Pinin Farina like Michelangelo sculptures. There are times in a man's life when he sees his woman reclining face down, at a slight distance, in a dim bedroom. That is the inherent shape of beauty.
The 504 in Australia, wasn't 'built by Renault', it was a factory that specialized in building TKD (Total Knock Down) 'kits' that came from Europe. Mini's, Renaults, Pugs and VW's all came out of the same factory, that was later owned by Nissan Australia, and then used by HSV for modified Commodores.
Yuk! It's a misshapen tank. Ungainly to the extreme. Rolls - Royce made beautiful cars in the early days. The older the better. But by the 70s were all ugly bricks and remain the same. Nothing more than a status symbol now. As the saying goes: "If you can afford to buy a Roller you can afford to run it." However these days they are as cheap as XJs and even more expensive to run.
But, of course, it wasn’t the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but, famously, MoMA: Museum if Modern Art. if that seems to be nitpicking, I’m watching the wrong show.
Seems to me that we are on the cusp of a revival of Italian coachbuilding on the modern "skateboard" electric car chassis types now being made by major legacy automakers.
(4) It takes LARGE Economies of Scale for vendor part, price breaks. Meaning to build something interesting you have to build a lot of boring stuff to have capital for a reasonable price & premium, else $150,000. ++++++++++++++++++ (5) Shame a consumer can't buy a retro style build for a reasonable premium. Even if the order took a year. ++++++++++++++++++ (6) I understand the US first was Kurtis Sports Car, 1949. 2yr production. See Wikipedia.
And in the U.S. there was the Cadillac Allanté. The styling was OK, but reliability was typical General Motors... as in "it should have come with a lifetime membership to the automotive association"
No kudos for Pininfarina's contribution to the styling (?) Of the '52 Nash lineup? Even as one of the Auto Show pictures, clearly showed a Nash Rambler 2 door station wagon, front¢er? ( yes, I know, the Rambler was done in house by Nash, but the Country Club Hardtop had the Pininfarina reverse-slanted c-pillar design, (later copied by GM, '54-'58) as did all 2 door Nash hardtops '51-'57, all Nash 4 doors cars, '52-'57, and AMC Ramblers, 4 doors & wagons, '54-'62. ( none of these will be on anyone's 10 best list, unless there is a list of 10 best 4 door hardtop station wagons). ✌😎👍
Ferrari wouldn't be where they are today if not for pininfarina. Why Ferrari told pininfarina bye bye. We can design our own cars To me when I see that pininfarina badge on the side of a Ferrari. I say this is a beautiful ferrari. Today's Ferrari doesn't have it. Ferrari just bring back pininfarina.
Ok video. I find it shameful to not mention the 59 Cadillac pininfarina designed. It's a stunning car. And I know few were built but don't they deserve a mention? So sorry cars this side of the pond can't have time "wasted" on them. Would have been a fabulous addition anyway.
