Pininfarina will be celebrating its 75th anniversary with a retrospective of the most significant cars designed over its long history. It coincides with the Villa d’Este Concours d’Elégance 2005, scheduled for the weekend of 22 to 24 April.
On Sunday April 24 at Villa Erba, Cernobbio, a special exhibition will be staged entirely dedicated to Pininfarina with around thirty vintage cars, among which one-off models or those produced in short runs, longer production-run cars, styling models and research prototypes.
Star of the show is to be the Birdcage 75th (see PistonHeads story -- link below), designed specifically to celebrate the company's 75th anniversary. Recently seen in a world preview at the Geneva Motor Show, where it was voted the "Best Concept Car" in the Editors’ Choice Awards, the Birdcage 75th is based on Maserati tradition and its most advanced mechanicals, and was produced in cooperation with Motorola. Pininfarina described it as "a dream car synthesising exclusive design, a sporting DNA and technological innovation."
Among other milestones in Pininfarina's history on show at Villa Erba are
- 1947 Cisitalia 202, the first car in the world to be put on exhibition at MOMA, New York's Museum of Modern Art.
- 1955 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider, the car that marked the brand's move from artisan production to full-scale manufacturing
- 1996 Peugeot 406 coupé, an example of Pininfarina's ability to offer car manufacturers the entire range of services (design, engineering, production);
- 2000 Ferrari “rossa”, voted concept car of the year in Paris
- 2003 Maserati Quattroporte, a luxury saloon that marked a revival of joint Pininfarina-Maserati cooperation on a car after a lapse of 50 years
- 2004 Pininfarina Nido, an innovative research prototype in the safety field.
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