Ferrari Pininfarina
The pininfarina sergio is a concept car produced by the italian design house pininfarina.
Ferrari pininfarina. The car is a coach built barchetta which is based on the mechanical underpinnings of the ferrari 458 spider. Pininfarina the company that once acted as ferraris favorite coachbuilder will soon be in the business of making cars of its own. Starting in the early 2010s with the laferrari the focus was shifted to what is now the standard ferrari relying on in house design from the centro stile ferrari. Ferrari does not sell new cars by pininfarina in 2018.
Pininfarina the turin based design house founded in 1930 first did coachbuilding work for ferrari in 1951 and continued to work with the automaker well into the 21st century. The most powerful ferrari ever the 82 year excellence of pininfarina design was also reflected at geneva in a new extraordinary ferrari the f12berlinetta penned by pininfarina in cooperation with the maranello style centre. The f12berlinetta ushers in the new generation of ferrari extreme v12 cars. Autos ferraris longtime design partner reveals 2m all electric.
The early ferrari cars typically featured bodywork designed and customised by independent coachbuilders such as pininfarina scaglietti zagato vignale and bertone. A strictly limited edition of just 448 numbered cars was built with the last leaving the factory in december 2001. It was presented at the 2013 geneva motor show as a tribute to the former chairman of the company and automotive designer sergio pininfarina who died on 3 july 2012. The ferrari p45 officially known as the ferrari p45 by pininfarina is a one off sports car made by italian sports car manufacturer ferrari but redesigned by pininfarina for film director james glickenhaus son of stock exchange magnate seth glickenhaus.
Their relationship was so close that pininfarina became a partner of ferrari in scuderia ferrari spa sefac the organization that ran ferraris race team from 19611989 pinin was a vice president of ferrari and sergio later sat on ferraris board of directors.