今年5月才剛走了一位Carroll Shelby，原來7月6號，Pininfarina大師也仙游了, Ferrari Dino, 288 GTO, F40, Enzo…這些偉大的設計全部都是他公司的創意!

雖然Pininfarina的名字幾乎等於就是法拉利，但是他其實親自參與了上百項的汽車設計，當中最令我驚訝的是連美國的Corvette也是出自Pininfarina大師的手筆。

一個令人不能忘怀的時代完美的結束了，大師一路走好!

Ferrari designer Sergio Pininfarina, who led one of the world’s best-known auto design and coachbuilding firms, has died at 85.

The Italian company said Pininfarina died overnight Tuesday at his home in Turin, according to an Associated Press report. No cause of death was given.

The company, founded in 1930 byy has Pinifarina’s father, designed cars for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Cadillac and Volvo, among many others. But it is most closely associated with Ferrari, designing nearly all of its models since the 1950s.

Ferrari issued a statement, calling Pininfarina “An exceptional person.”

Ferrari’s Luca di Montezemolo said “Sergio was one of the most important advocates of ‘Made in Italy’ all over the world, a man, who gave Italy credibility and splendor.”

Maserati, which like Ferrari is owned by Fiat, also issued a statement from its CEO:

“With the passing of Sergio Pininfarina, Italy loses one of her most prestigious ambassadors in the world while, at the same time, Maserati loses a great friend,” says Harald Wester, CEO of Maserati. “Always an enthusiast of Maserati for which his father Pinin had designed automobile models as far back as the 1940s and 1950s, Sergio was the force behind the return of the Pininfarina design on contemporary Maseratis when, in 2003, he designed the current Quattroporte.”

Hit hard by the auto industry recession, the company stopped making car bodies in 2010 to focus on its design and engineering businesses.

Pininfarina is survived by his wife and two children.

Adds Wester: “Sergio contributed to the birth of two other icons of the Italian car style: the Maserati GranTurismo and the GranTurismo Convertible. His place in the automotive history is assured and huge – as is the place he has within the culture of Italy. We will miss him very much.”
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina Designs

The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsThis morning’s news of the untimely passing of Andrea Pininfarina cast a pall over the future of the company. What a perfectly fitting moment to assemble a list of the ten most iconic Pininfarina designs. Over the last 50 years the company has penned some of the most significant models of their respective decades and, whether loved or disliked, they’ve all been memorable. Any list of Pininfarina designs limited to ten will more than likely fall short of expectations, so feel free to drop your favorite designs in the comments below if we missed one.

10. 1960 Peugeot 404
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina Designs Though still a French car, the 404 captures the long lines and angular style that has defined Pininfarina design since the company’s beginnings. Similar to the smaller Peugeot 403, also designed by Pininfarina, it would come to define what a Peugeot was for nearly two decades (and four decades in Nigeria). More than 2.75 million 404s were produced, which may be why the car is such a frequent PCH inclusion. Photo Credit: Coffee-n-Cake

9. 1987 Alfa Romeo 164
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsFrom the 8C Competizone to the Brera, it is impossible to look at a modern Alfa Romeo and not see a bit of the Alfa Romeo 164. The sedan’s crisp lines, the attention to aerodynamics and, particularly, the elongated nose are all traits mutually associated with the 164, Alfa Romeos and the Italian design house. This car also has the distinction of being the last Alfa sedan to be sold in the US, a fact we hope is temporary. Photo Credit: Flickr

8. 1968 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 (Daytona)
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsSpeaking of long noses, the 1968 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 is all hood, and we don’t mean like Jay Z. Better known as the Ferrari Daytona, it’s a design so unique and wonderful that it’ll make you forget this was the car Brock Yates and Dan Gurney Cannonballed in. Those wicked eyelash turn signals will erase the thought of four-cam, V12 power. The sleek, front-engined profile forces you to ask “Crocket and Tubbs, who?” Photo Credit: Flickr

7. 1987 Cadillac Allante
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsWe qualified this list with “iconic” solely to include the Cadillac Allante. The car itself was a ridiculous proposition: an American-assmebled, Italian-designed FWD V8-powered luxury roadster listing at $57,000. It’s major saving grace was its Pininfarina design — and that didn’t really get it all that far. Neither Chrysler nor Lincoln offered anything in the same league, putting the Allante on the level of the Mercedes-Benz 300SL and Jaguar XJS. Photo Credit: Flickr

6. 2006 Ferrari P4/5
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsThere’s something obscenely wonderful about buying a rare Italian supercar and having it rebodied, which is essentially what the Ferrari P4/5 is. James Glickenhaus is one of the few people who’d ever consider such a bold project, and Pininfarina is one of the few companies able to successfully compete it. Tnspired by the 330 P4 Ferraris of the 1960s, the swooping curves and uninterrupted greenhouse are an inspired nod to an entire era of the automobile. Photo Credit: Supercars

5. 2008 Maserati GranTurismo
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsWe’ve yet to pass up an opportunity to talk about the Maserati Granturismo, a car so beautiful that nuns have been known to weep in its presence. From the athletic shoulders to the angled headlights, the Maserati captures all of the characteristics of a Pininfarina GT while still creating new forms and freer profile that will likely come to dominate the company’s designs for the near future. Photo Credit: Flickr

4. 1987 Ferrari F40
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsThe jewel of Pininfarina’s designs for Ferarri in the 1980s, the Ferrari F40 was the fastest street legal production car for two years thanks in part to its lightweight and aerodynamic design. This is the Ferrari that graced the walls of teenage boys’ room’s from Taipei to Tuscon (right next to the Elle Macpherson poster). More than 20 years later the car still looks modern and the elongated greenhouse set back from a slanting hood has inspired mid-engined supercars ever since. Photo Credit: Flickr

3. 2003 Ferrari Enzo
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsA classic before anyone was even allowed to buy one, the Ferrari Enzo is the closest anyone is likely to come to capturing the essence of a Formula One racer in a streetable production car. As with the Ferrari F40, the designers at Pininfarina essentially created a new style in order to meet Ferrari’s demands for supercar dominance. In profile, the Enzo looks more like a fighter plane than a car, it’s cockpit pushed forward past the massively powerful V12. The large round rear window ensconced between two thick plates aft of the C-pillar and the F1-inspired nose defy comparisons to other vehicles. Now if people can stop ramming them into walls, we won’t have to keep trying to get Gawker to re-print the t-shirts. Photo Credit: Flickr

2. 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsPopular before it hit the silver screen in the film “The Graduate,” the Alfa Romeo Spider was the most attainable and familiar representation of top-down Italian cruising for more than a generation. The Spider became the most recognizable and famous Alfa in history, the line that starts with the long curved hood is carried along the belt line and terminates what feels like a mile later. Pinifarina was involved in the design and production of the first three generations of the car, which debuted in 1966 and continued the same essential design until the early 1990s. Why mess with success? Photo Credit: Flickr

1. 1984 Ferrari Testarossa
The Ten Most Iconic Pininfarina DesignsThe red-headed, wild-eyed Ferrari Testarossa is arguably the most famous car of the 1980s, representing wealth, performance and excess. You couldn’t operate a car magazine in the decade without running a picture of the iconic sports car at least once a year. Though the design carried the long hood and sleek lights from the Daytona, the combed air-intakes running along the car’s flanks were like nothing else anyone had seen. The car’s wide back end was also a refutation of the smaller, puckered rears of most sports cars. There’s a reason why boys on Miami vice traded up to the Testarossa from the Daytona

Notable car designs

1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300
1936 Lancia Aprilia
1938 Lancia Astura
1948 Cisitalia 202
1952 Ferrari 250
1952 Nash Ambassador[3]
1952 Nash-Healey[4]
1953 Four Berlinetta and one Spyder version of the Maserati A6GCS/53
1955 Ferrari 410 Superamerica
1955 Peugeot 403
1956 Austin A40 Farina
1957 Lancia Flaminia
1958 BMC Farina cars – Austin A55 Cambridge Mk II, MG Magnette Mk III, Morris Oxford V, Riley 4/68, Wolseley 15/60
1959 Fiat 1800/2100
1960 Ferrari 250 GTE
1960 Peugeot 404
1961 Fiat 2300
1961 Cadillac “Jacqueline” Brougham Coupé (named after Jacqueline Kennedy)[5]
1962 BMC ADO16
1963 Chevrolet Corvair Super Spyder Coupé (2 built)[6]
1963 Chevrolet Corvette Rondine Coupé[7]
1963 Datsun Bluebird 410
1963 Mercedes-Benz 230SL concept car (”Pininfarina Coupé”)
1964 Ferrari 275
1965 Ferrari Dino 206
1965 MGB GT
1965 Nissan Cedric 130
1966 Alfa Romeo Spider 1600 Duetto
1966 Ferrari 330 GTC
1966 Fiat 124 Sport Spider
1966 Fiat Dino Spider
1966 IKA-Renault Torino
1967 Proposal for replacement for BMC 1100 (ADO16)
1967 Proposal for replacement for BMC 1800 (ADO17)
1968 Ferrari Daytona
1968 Peugeot 504 Cabriolet and Coupe
1969 Peugeot 304 Cabriolet and Coupe
1971 Fiat 130 Coupe
1971 Ferrari 365 GTC/4
1973 Ferrari 365 GT4 BB
1975 Ferrari 308
1975 Lancia Montecarlo
1975 Rolls-Royce Camargue
1976 Peugeot Peugette concept car[8]
1978 Jaguar XJ6
1980 Ferrari Pinin
1984 Ferrari Testarossa
1984 Ferrari 288 GTO
1984 Honda HP-X concept car[9]
1985 Ferrari 328
1985 Peugeot 205 Cabriolet and Saloon (4 doors) based on Gerard Welter’s initial design of the 205 (1983)
1987 Alfa Romeo 164
1987 Cadillac Allanté
1987 Ferrari F40
1987 Peugeot 405
1989 Ferrari 348
1989 Ferrari Mythos
1992 Jaguar XJ220—rebodied an unknown number of cars
1992 Ferrari 456 GT
1993 Fiat Coupé – Interior only
1993 Peugeot 306
1994 Ferrari F355
1994 Peugeot 306 Cabriolet
1995 Alfa Romeo GTV & Spider
1995 Ferrari F355 Spider
1995 MG F – Roof Structure only
1996 Ferrari 550 Maranello
1996 Lancia Kappa SW
1997 Peugeot 406 Coupé
1999 Mitsubishi Pajero
1999 Songhuajiang Hafei Zhongyi
2000 Daewoo Tacuma
2000 Ferrari 360 Spider
2000 Ferrari 550 Barchetta
2001 Citroën Osée
2001 Hyundai Matrix
2002 Daewoo Nubira/Lacetti saloon and station wagon
2002 Enzo Ferrari
2002 Ferrari 575M Maranello
2002 Hafei Lobo
2003 Maserati Quattroporte
2003 Ford Street Ka
2004 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
2004 Ferrari F430
2005 Hyundai Matrix
2005 Maserati Birdcage 75th
2005 Peugeot 1007
2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
2006 Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina
2006 Mitsubishi Colt CZC
2006 Volvo C70
2007 Brilliance BS4
2007 Ford Focus CC by Pininfarina
2008 Maserati GranTurismo
2008 Pininfarina B0 electric car
2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé Hyperion concept car
2009 Tata Pr1ma concept car
2009 Ferrari 458 Italia
2010 Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta concept car
2010 Lancia Stratos for Michael Stoschek[10]
2011 Ferrari FF
2012 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta