Pininfarina

Pininfarina's Cambiano plug-in diesel hybrid concept, debuting in Geneva, claims supercar performance with minimal environmental impact.

Riddled with debt, legendary Italian coachbuilder and design house Pininfarina has announced that it has reached a debt restructuring deal with its lenders that provides the firm with additional time to pay back its loans. Through a series of meetings with its lenders, Pininfarina has reached a new...

The 2012 Geneva Motor Show is now just a few weeks away and in the lead up to the event we have details of a new concept car--including three teaser images and a video--set to debut there. The concept car is a new design study from legendary Italian design house and coachbuilder Pininfarina. It is...

We've talked about the Renault-derived shouldn't-oughta-want-it Eagle Premier and Chrysler LH in recent episodes of this series, but our last full-blooded French Guilty Pleasure was the Renault Fuego Turbo back in July. Anyway, when you're talking French cars that really just don't make sense, you...

Coachbuilding has certainly become a tough business. As sales volumes of even the most exotic cars go up, and manufacturers offer more and more custom and exotic options direct from the factory, the niche once filled by the older custom building companies is becoming increasingly shallow. But the...

Saab might be skating on thin ice, but it has a solid choreographer. Design director Jason Castriota has been named one of Fast Company magazine's 100 Most Creative People in Business and appears in the third-annual ranking in its June 2011 issue. Castriota attended Boston's Emerson College, then...

In previous years we’ve seen wild supercars like the BMW M1 Concept and Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta (pictured) unveiled at Italy’s annual Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, and this year will be no different. Confirmed today by the event’s president, Karl Baumer, a...

Giving brilliant people free rein to build their dreams has led to some of the best designs in automotive history, no small portion of which were penned by people working for the legendary design houses like Stile Bertone and Pininfarina. Well, one designer, Jason Castriota just happened to work at...

Back in January we first reported that Alfa Romeo was planning a trio of new concept cars previewing its replacement for the 159 sedan for the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Today, the first of these concepts has been fully revealed in the form of the new Pininfarina designed Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta...

The rumormill is grinding wildly on the thought of a racing Ferrari P4/5 from James Glickenhaus.

If you've ever wanted to own a stake in an illustrious Italian luxury automotive design house, now may be the perfect time with reports emerging that Italy's Pininfarina family will be selling off their majority stake in the company. Reportedly, the family owners of Pininfarina have already engaged...

With a hexagon-centric theme and styling that looks like it was sent back through a space-time rift from 2020, the Bertone Mantide is a new and polarizing figure in the design world. Soon, however, it may also be a prominent figure in the performance world as the owner of the car reportedly wants...

Famed Italian coachbuilder and design house Pininfarina is most widely recognized for designing stunning cars like the Ferrari 599 but the company also dabbles every now and then in the area of coachbuilding special one-off creations for wealthy clients. Back in 2006 we saw the personalized Ferrari...

Ferrari's 250 GT chassis is a legend in the world of extreme high-end collecting. Racing examples draw most of the attention, and the latest is no exception, with the Ferrari 250 GT Coupe Pininfarina chassis number 0419 GT taking top honors for the Best Restoration at the 2009 Concorso...

Named for a Titan in Greek mythology, the Pininfarina-etched Hyperion from 2008 was designed to evoke memories of cars from the 1930s with its long majestic bonnet, short rear overhang and low rooflines. Based on the Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe, the changes needed to create the Hyperion included the...

Tata has gone from strength to strength since the unveiling of its groundbreaking Nano minicar early last year. Many doubted Tata’s ability to turn out a 1-lakh ($2,500) car, but the company proved the skeptics wrong and even followed it up with a special edition model planned for a European...

This year has been a hard one for a lot of people, companies and industries. It has been an especially tough one for Pininfarina, losing its CEO, Andrea Pininfarina, to a traffic accident in August. Today news is breaking that the company has decided to end its stint as Italy's last contract...

Italy's place in the automotive design business is legendary, inspiring passion for cars in generations of people all around the world via cars from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lancia and Alfa Romeo and more. Both Pininfarina and Bertone have spent time at the leading edge of design, and Jason Castriota...

Pininfarina first announced plans to design and build its own electric vehicle when it debuted the striking Sintesi fuel-cell concept vehicle at the Geneva Motor Show. The Italian design firm and coachbuilder was to partner with France’s Bolloré Group to source the advanced lithium-ion...

At last year's Geneva Motor Show, Pininfarina revealed its Sintesi fuel-cell vehicle, a skillful and attractive concept that showed the legendary coachbuilder was still at the cutting edge of design. This time around, the company is planning to try its hand at an electric vehicle, marrying...