Posted on Tuesday 29 January 2008
Update: The Sintesi concept now has its own face, as Pininfarina has gone live with a website exhibiting its latest creation. Shown above in a capture from that website, the Sintesi concept is intended as a melding of the safety and modularity of the Nido concept and the beauty and sportiness of the Birdcage 75th concept. You can visit the new site for yourself, and even sign up to be kept abreast of breaking Sintesi developments - once you navigate to the end of the Flash-based brochure.
Original: Perhaps the single most influential car design and coachbuilding firm in history, Pininfarina has penned lines that define automotive beauty. Cars like the Ferrari P4/5, the 330GTC, the Testarossa and the 410 Superamerica are classics, both modern and vintage, that shape our concept of what cars should look like. Now Pininfarina is introducing a new concept car, its first since the Maserati Birdcage 75th Concept (pictured) shown for the first time three years ago.
The Sintesi is a cutting-edge technology showcase. According to the project’s design director, the Sintesi “embraces innovative technologies that allow us to explore new typologies of mobility, active safety and packaging solutions.” While that may be something of a mouthful, it does intimate that the concept will be futuristic and unique, tracing the outline of what is to come over the next few decades of automotive design and development.
Sport and function are not lost in the high-tech fusion, however. The Sintesi is still a Pininfarina design, after all, and the passion and purity of vision that goes into every Pininfarina will show through in the Sintesi. The company has yet to favor the world with any pictures as yet, but hints at an upcoming online teaser campaign this January. The car will make its global debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March, 2008.