Pininfarina - what was their best design?

[Pickled]

3304hl said:

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

A man with excellent taste!

[carinaman]

drewpasmith said:

3 from Fioravanti. 1 from Ramaciotti.

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

Great choices.

There seems to be a bit of the Pinin in the Alfa 164.

[Puddenchucker]

Actually, on second thoughts, I may prefer this to the Ferrari:

http://www.pininfarina.com/en/prinoth_beast/?categ...




Or maybe a coffee machine?

http://www.pininfarina.it/en/firma




Or Whisky?

http://www.pininfarina.com/en/chivas_regal_18_by_p...

[Strawman]

carinaman said:

Great choices.

There seems to be a bit of the Pinin in the Alfa 164.

They did the design for that, it even had Pininfarina badges on it

[wst]

Peugeot 406 or the Fiat Coupe. Made our roads look a bit prettier on a day-to-day basis.

[dbdb]

carinaman said:

Great choices.

There seems to be a bit of the Pinin in the Alfa 164.

The Vauxhall Senator has quite a bit of Pinin derived inspiration in it.

[carinaman]

dbdb said:

carinaman said:

Great choices.

There seems to be a bit of the Pinin in the Alfa 164.

The Vauxhall Senator has quite a bit of Pinin derived inspiration in it.

Agreed, though mainly the headlamps and cheese grater grill?

wst said:

Peugeot 406 or the Fiat Coupe. Made our roads look a bit prettier on a day-to-day basis.

Pininfarina did the interior of the Fiat Coupe. The external styling was by Chris Bangle before he went to BMW.

[dannyDC2]

406 Coupe or the 550 Maranello for me, 406 was my first thought.

Some of the suggestions in here though. Wow, such a beautiful thread!

[4737 Carlin]

athol said:

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.

I don't usually like Maseratis, but that looks fantastic!

[bencollins]

furtive said:

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

Top trumps

[bencollins]

TartanPaint said:

Paul O said:

Perfection. Nothing before or since is prettier or better proportioned to my eye.

slightly long front overhang, but very lurvely.

[Erudite geezer]

Paul O said:

I always think the F355 needs the wing badges to complete the look. The best looking car ever, in my opinion:

[Ali_T]

Don't even have to think about it...

[Asterix]

First car I had when I moved to Dubai was a 406 Coupe and it was very rare here. I'd often come back to it parked with people having their photo taken next it.

[ewand]

Some lovely cars in this thread - the Maser A6GCS a particular fave.
Following on from the Giulietta spider earlier, how about the Duetto shape? The last design by Battista Pininfarina himself.

Edited by ewand on Friday 4th September 09:15

[dafeller]

Some people say it's just for hairdressers, but still beautiful.

[DeltaEvo2]

Peugeot 205.

[richb77]

jontbone said:

For me, the Ferrari 288 GTO is my favourite Pininfarina design and fave Fezza too. In everyday cars I think the 406 Coupe was a stunning looker, shame about FWD, but despite this, the very cheap 3L V6s available are rather tempting

close the thread.

[wst]

carinaman said:

Pininfarina did the interior of the Fiat Coupe. The external styling was by Chris Bangle before he went to BMW.

Ah, well, that does look like a nice place to be. Shame Bangle went off the rails when he went to Germany.

[Fury1630]

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