2008 "Dream, cars of the future since 1950" exposition, Turin, December 23rd 2008

[LeonOfTheDead]

1999 Pininfarina Metrocubo

Ecologic and versatile
An exceptional result of compactness and flexibility melted together in a citycar.
Electric system longitudinal mounted as powertrain. Aluminium chassis.

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1999 Fiat Ecobasic

Explore all the limits of the sustainability.
Minimal environmental impact traction, robotic gearbox, less than 3L/100 km of diesel. It weights only 750 kg, and has a Cx of 0,28.
Interiors in ecological recycled or natural materials.

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2000 Bertone Slim

Two seat in a tandem disposition, for a better urban mobility.
Large only 1100 mm, it occupies only half of a parking space. Cockpit of aeronautical derivation, fiberglass body. The engine is a two cylinder positioned at the rear, an electrical unit available as option.

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2004 Pininfarina Nido

Style and engineering for the safety.
Frontal area deformable, safety central rigid cell, sliding upon two central rails. Two shock absorbers in honeycomb, for dissipating the energy of a pedestrian impact.

Awarded with the Compasso d'Oro by ADI in 2008

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2007 IED Beon

Exciting hybrid.
A Brilliant, thrusting version to make the hybrid appealing. Designed by 19 Master in Transportation Design students at the IED, Instituto Europeo di Design of Turin and exhibited at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show.
Model produced by CECOMP.

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Some scale mock ups from IED.

[teatako]

z0mg a Hummer in the BG! Brix were shat. Was that a modeling exercise ?

[LeonOfTheDead]

some text from the exhibition

Designers

Working in manufacturers or coachbuilders' style centers or with their own independent organization, they have dedicated their lives to designing, engineering, assisting and co-ordinating the phases that lead to the creation of new production models or advanced research one-offs. They are well known in the industry but not to the general public. It is always risky attributing the paternity of a car to a single person because the path that leads from the first pencil sketch, from the initial concept to the ca on the road or the sand at a Car Show is complex and ends up including an infinite series of contributions and conditions. Nonetheless, there are cases of construction lines, masses and insights born on impulse that are conserved and defended right up to the launch day. Here are some of the most important "backroom directors" from the Turin area. We thank them for having fed our four-wheeled dreams.


Tom Tjaarda
The American in love with Turin
Born in Detroit in 1934, he graduated in architecture at the University of Michigan in 1958. A meeting with Luigi Segre, the director of Ghia, convinced him to head for Italy. For the coatchbuilder he proposed a very daring design, the Selene II, of 1959. In Turin he worked with Gabetti A Isola architecture studio for the exhibition of the Centenary of Italian Reunification and designed the monorail cabin.
He worked for five as a car designer at Pininfarina until 1965, then at OSI Fergal. He substituted Giugiaro as head of the Ghia Style Office in 1968 and stayed here until 1977. His most renowned creations are from this period: the De Tomaso Pantera and the Fiesta model chosen for production by Lee Iacocca out of all the proposals made by Ford Style Centers. Appointed by Fiat in 1978 as Director of the Advanced Design Studio, he moved in 1982 to the new Rayton Fissore Style Center in Cherasco (which worked with Seat and Chrysler and was ahead of the times of SUVs with the Magnum). In 1984 he opened his own independent studio and is still working on Americans' projects among which an electric Mustang for the Mexican firm HSTI.

Aldo Sessano
In his father's footsteps
Sessano was born in Turin on 9 October 1931. Bron into the trade, his father Luigi was a designer and die-maker. He joined Fiat Pubblicazioni Tecniche in 1950 and in 1956 moved to the Centro Stile where he worked on cars and tractors alongside the young Giugiaro then an apprentice. In 1966 he designed the cab of a Pegaso and worked with Pio Manzù on Piaggio's cars and light vehicle models. He left Fiat in 1968 and designed his Mongho, on a Fiat 500 base at the Turin Show. He expanded his work in product design, especially in the field of household appliances. From 1971 to 1976 he worked for Volvo and Renault and for Inducar on the 1200 sports coupè produced by Seat, a company he worked for years as a consultant. He designed a cab interior with modular dashboard sectors for Scania. From 1977 to 2002 continuously for 25 years, he worked with Mitsubishi on dozens projects: Lancer, Galant, Diamante, 2nd and 3rd gen Pajero etc.

Filippo Sapino
Ford's Turin provocateur
Bron in Turin in 1940, he entered Ghia as a designer at the age if 19. He left in 1967 for Pininfarina where he was involved in designing the Ferrari 512 S (1969). This aggressive looking car was only 982 mm high. In 1969 he moved to Bruino as head of the italian Style Center of the Ford Motor Company. In 1973 Ford bought up Ghia and united the two design studios. He was first appointed Design Manager and in 1976 General Director. He remained at Ford till he was 60, during which time he contributed to raising appreciation of the flair, creativity and handcrafting skills of this district, despite acting within the environment of a multinational company. The two Turin-based styling centers acted as Ford's think-tanks and were used by the American parent as the antenna and research laboratory for the European and world markets. The centers produced many proposals that contributed to the birth of the final models as the Ford Granada , Pinto, Escort and the innovative, for its aerodynamic, Sierra. After Sapino's direction also excellent concept cars saw the lights of international Shows, as the Ghia Focus, Lagonda Vignale and the Streetka built by Pininfarina.

Paolo Martin
The expressionism of form beyond content
Paolo Martin was born in Turin in 1943. In 1960 he began an apprenticeship in the studio directed by Giovanni Michelotti. The six years he spent at the Pininfarina Style Center, with positions of responsibility, were decisive. During this time the Grugliasco company produced designs for the Sigma GP, Alfa Romeo 33 Roadster, Ferrari 512 Modulo, Rolls Royce Camargue, Lancia Beta Montecarlo and Fiat 130 Coupè. In 1973 Martin moved to Ghia as director of the Style Center where he was in charge, among other projects, for the design of Benelli motorcycles and the Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans and 1000 California, marques that belonged to Alejandro De Tomaso who was the owner of Ghia. Martin turned freelance in 1976, and worked on projects for cars, motorbikes, boats and industrial design products. In his studio in Cassino he realised full-scale wooden models of a concept car for Bugatti and 1:10 scale models of the Sigma GP that attest his manual skills. He has an archive of more than 1000 drawings that offer witness of his creative research.

Enrico Fumia
A promise kept
Enrico Fumia was born in 1948 and at the age of 16 won the Bertone "Grifo d'Oro Prize" in the junior category. In 1970 he began to work with the studio belonging to Revelli di Beaumont. In 1976 he graduated in aeronautic engineering at Turin Polytechnic with a thesis on automobile aerodynamics following researches he carried out in the Pininfarina wind tunnel. He joined Pininfarina Studi & Ricerche in 1976 and six years later was made Director of Models and Prototypes. In 1988 he was promoted to Director of project and Design Development and a year later to General Vice Director of Pininfarina S&R. In 1991 he moved to Fiat Auto as Director of the Lancia Style Center and in 1998 was made Director of Diversified Design. He opened his own design studio in 2002, which since 2002 has been known as Fumia Design Associati, Sviluppo ed Engineering. The most important programmes to have been produced under his style directions were the Lancia Y, Alfa Romeo GTV, Lancia Lybra and Alfa Romeo 164.

Aldo Brovarone
60 years of cretive drive
Born in Vigliano Biellese in 1926, after experience in Argentina he returned with Carlo Dusion (Cisitalia) to Turin in 1952. He met Battista Pinin Farina in 1953. Following a rapid apprenticeship, the Alfa Romeo Superflow (1956) and the Ferrari Superamerica Superfast II of 1960 were created from a model of his. His masterpiece remains the Ferrari Dino Berlinetta Speciale taken to Paris in 1965, a design that was a prelude to the Dino 206 and 246 road versions. The 1975 Alfa Romeo Eagle was his last car fair prototype. He worked on the creation of many mass-production cars including the Peugeot 504 and the Lancia Gamma Couoé. After retiring (1988) he lost none of his enthusiasm, he collaborated with Roberto Stola (1996 Fiat Dedica and Abarth Monotipo exhibited at the last edition of the Salone di Torino, in 1998) and today with Alfredo Stola's Studiotorino (RK Spyder). As a hobby he drafts illustrated postcards that depict historical subjects, airplanes, cars and often imaginary period advertisements.

[LeonOfTheDead]

Now, I posted all I have worth being posted, apart from some random images and stuff.
first image, what's that? it was a picture/rendering on the wall, no info or something, my Guess is it has something to do with Brovarone, iirc.
second pic, a huge wall poster of the B.A.T. series from Bertone. Definitely worth being stolen.

[LeonOfTheDead]

this is some material in the area where, my guess, a couple of Pininfarina/Ferrari concepts/one-offs were exhibited, but not at the time of my visit or of swisscarsightings.

here it is.

A dream world cannot be pictured without depicting many of the Ferrari protorypes designed by Pininfarina. For example, the 375 MM, mysterious dream car of 1954 that ended up in the hands of film director Roberto Rossellini, certainly one of the four streamlined Superfast models designed almost one after the other, between 1556 and 1962. And the "red Dino" of 1965, a sinuous gem by Aldo Brovarone and the "yellow Dino", a 1967 evolution by Paolo Martin. To conclude, the 512 S, the streamlined, fluid wedge of 1969 by Filippo Sapino. It would have been wonderful to exhibit them here: some have disappeared, the others are so precious that they are kept well hidden. Cars yesterday, cultural heritage today. It is a pity that themselves have left Turin and Italy forever.

And now I think the thread is really over.

[faksta]

I nominate this thread for the 'Report of the month', if anyone still remembers such a thing...

[Ristpea]

I nominate this thread for the 'Report of the month', if anyone still remembers such a thing...

Same words!
Fantastico!

[LeonOfTheDead]

I nominate this thread for the 'Report of the month', if anyone still remembers such a thing...

it never started afaik, but I wouldn't mind

Same words!
Fantastico!

thank you both.

[faksta]

it never started afaik, but I wouldn't mind

I remember there was such an idea, so I guess here's a great moment to start.

[JorisP]

Those pics are absolutely awesome, Leon. As was this exposition! Thanks a mil!