Pininfarina - what was their best design?

[GranCab]

... same engine and brakes too

[635csi]

Axionknight said:

Rawwr said:

RichB said:

WarnieV6GT said:

Rawwr said:

The 456GT. It's the most well-packaged 2+2 ever. It still makes me weak when I see it now.

Great design, but it's amazing how older cars look so under wheeled nowadays.

And yet I'd say the opposite in that these look better without stupid 22" rims and liquorice strip tyres.

Yeah, I'd say 'correctly wheeled'

Agreed

I think that if you really must mess with the wheels on a 456 the only acceptable choices are 575 non modulers or at a push Novitec NF2's which were built for V12 ferraris of the period.
I have just bought a 456M GT and had intended to change standard rims to one of the above, less sure now.

[Martin 480 Turbo]

The best was yet to come:

[Rangeroverover]

Have a look at the PininFarina boats............just jawdroppingly dribbly awesome

http://magnummarine.com/models/

[635csi]

Coming from the predictable Ferrari corner I like the way Pinin styled the less obvious 2+2 cars.
The 250 GTE of 1961 is a proper 4 seat car but to me wonderfully elegant.
Like wise the 1990s 456.

On the 2 seaters, in the garage below me a 575M sits by a Vanquish.

When new I probably would have preferred the looks Aston, now i certainly don't.
Pininfarina's best very rapidly start to look "classic" rather than old.

[3304hl]

My personal favourite(mostly because it's mine); designed by Tom Tjaarda while he was at PF.

Simple, elegant, understated gentleman's express.
Unlike many, I've always preferred the original 4 headlight version

[furtive]

Puddenchucker said:

Concept:

That is stirring some weird memories in the deepest recesses of my brain. I either had a model of that, or a poster, or something when I was a kid

[austinsmirk]

There was a picture of that in my children's encyclopedia I had in about 77 !

[furtive]

Ah, maybe that's where I've seen it (my copy, not yours)

[shake n bake]

Good question and there is so much to choose from, sometimes I see their badge on some truly bland stuff and ask why??!
For me I loved the 406 coupe, A great looking car.

[alistair267]

[kiseca]

FeelingLucky said:

No love for the Lancia Gamma?

I like those, but always felt the Ferrari 365/400/412 family was a better resolved version of the same idea:



My favourite Pininfarina design though is yet another vote for the 288GTO.

[kiseca]

I believe these are a Pininfarina design too, also utterly gorgeous, more so in the flesh, they are so tiny!

[thefullmonte]

What about the Lancia Montecarlo?

[drewpasmith]

3 from Fioravanti. 1 from Ramaciotti.

My word, they did a good line in elegant menace.

[635csi]

[rcs5158]

I am biased, I owned this.......

[pSynrg]

dabofoppo said:

A bowling place near me uses pininfarina bowling balls.

Are they spherical?

[athol]

Another vote for Lorenzo Ramaciotti although this one was not directly designed by him, he oversees the project as head of group design for Fiat/Chrysler who, of course, own Maserati. The car uses many styling cues from past Maseratis, mainly designed by Pininfarina and particularly by Ramaciotti including the Quattroporte, Grantourismo and 612 Scaglietti. So it's not actually designed directly by Pininfarina but is by association.

[anonymous-user]

Can I just leave these here?



Thanks!