Marcello Gandini: these are his ten best designs
Posted on 19-02-2015 at 23:01 by Dizono – 80 Comments”
Lamborghini Miura, need I say more? Go on then, we do have 9!
Who is the best car designer ever? According to the election Car Designer of the Century in 1999 was Giorgetto Giugiaro. Not if it were up to me (and with me many others), then this Marcello Gandini stiff at the top. This born in 1938 Italian worked from 1963 to 1980 he worked at Bertone and, there are many masterpieces. Not that he then stopped all work, still is the 76-year-old Italian looking for a sketch.
Lamborghini Countach
As classic as the Miura is in his lines, so shocking radically broke Gandini with it and its successor, the Countach. Originally, the car is very clean in terms of design, but an overheated engine provided soon, for ‘disfiguring’ ventilators. There would not remain, when the Countach in 1990, was relieved by the Diablo, the original design is hardly recognizable.
Lancia Stratos
1973 should have a special year, in addition to the alien Countach, got the audience to this bizarre Stratos presented. Again from the pen of Gandini. This rallykanon is unmistakably a child of the ’70s, with the Bertone/Gandini characteristic wedge shape.
Bugatti EB110
In 1991, experience Bugatti his first revival, not in France but in Italy. Gandini draws for the prototype with the 3.5-liter quad-turbo V12-equipped supercar, Giampaolo Benedini should the dots on the i’s. Tsjakka!
Lamborghini Miura
Although Nuccio Bertone first claimed the fabulously beautiful Miura himself to have drawn, everyone there seemed to agree that the Gandini was that this voluptuous lines on the paper assigned.
Renault 5 ‘Supercinq’
Not only legendary supercars in this list, also for a good city car I was Gandini not afraid.
Lamborghini Jarama
A personal favorite, which is probably not appreciated by everyone. Its wheelbase is shorter than that of a VW Beetle gives the Jarama something special. With 328 instances a rarity but still one of the cheapest Lambo that you second-hand can purchase.
Citroen BX
Actually, there are crooks who are car designers. The Citroën BX started life as the Reliant FW11, was then the Tundra concept of Volvo and in the end if Citroen conquer the world.
Maserati Quattroporte
No, not the penultimate Quattroporte that you have been voted as the most beautiful Maserati ever, but the model sure. This sharp, contoured zakensedan has the distinctive Gandini-line over the rear wheel arches and also the wedge shape evident in 1994 have not yet completely dead.
Dino/Ferrari 308 GT4
While from the mid – ’50s, almost all Ferrari’s Pininfarina to be signed, Bertone, the command is a successor to sign for the Dino 246GT(S). Why Ferrari Bertone choose? According to rumors would be Pininfarina the task of a compact 2+2 with a transversely mounted V8 for the rear axle design to difficult have found. Just like the Jarama, the ” Dino later still, a Ferrari should be’ the general public may not appeal. Broken, they are still more expensive than very.
Lamborghini Diablo
A top model from Lamborghini is the Gandini who is responsible for the design. Incidentally, it is Tom Gale, known for the Dodge Viper and Plymouth Prowler, the last touches to the design. In the sloping rear wheel arches is, however, unmistakably the pen of Gandini visible.
As a bonus: a short video of the master himself, despite his age, still spry, and -most important – with a pencil in his hand.