Published Date:
08 August 2008
By Coleen Barry
ANDREA Pininfarina, the chief executive of the Italian car design firm that counts Ferraris and Alfa Romeos among its creations, died yesterday in a road accident near the Italian city of Turin.
Luigi Semenzato, the police chief in the town of Trofarello, said Mr Pininfarina was driving a scooter along a provincial highway when his Vespa was in collision with a car at a junction.
Mr Pininfarina, 51, was the third generation to run Pininfarina SpA, founded in 1930 by his grandfather Battista "Pinin" Farina, which has designed cars for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Cadillac and Volvo, among others. It is most closely associated with Ferrari, designing nearly all of Ferrari's models since the 1950s.
His father, Sergio Pininfarina, is a senator in the Italian parliament.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Fiat chairman and Ferrari president, said: "Italy, Turin and the entire Fiat group have lost a symbol of entrepreneurship, a man who carried on, and introduced innovations to, the work of his grandfather Pinin and his father Sergio."
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Last Updated:
07 August 2008 10:11 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
