Gee Stephano, what do you have against Pininfarina? They have financial wows of their own and it now seems that Fiat is taking all design including the new Alfa 4c, Maseratis and the "la Ferrari" in-house. In fact they hired Lorenzo Ramaciotti, ex-Pininfarina Chief Designer to do it.
With the financial situation for Bertone and Pininfarina along with Italdesign bought out by VW It looks as if the age of the independent Carrozzeria is over. Steve On Apr 4, 2014, at 6:39 PM, alfa-digest <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 18:38:00 -0700 > From: Stefano Iachella <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Bertone in Financial Trouble > > I recently read on the BBC website that Bertone has filed for bankruptcy. > Apparently they've been in financial trouble for a while. Some of you may > already be aware, but this is news to me. And sad news at that. > > As the designer of our beloved 105 GTV and numerous other fabulous > Italian cars, as well as plenty of other cars, I hope someone can rescue > them. They are looking for an Italian buyer but it seems the courts will > entertain a foreign buyer if that doesn't work out. There seems to be a > Turkish buyer on the wings. > > I wonder if FIAT would consider it, but with so many brands under it's > envelope and emerging from some financial restructuring themselves, I > wouldn't think that would be an option. However, if they did, they could > probably commission them to design all the Ferraris going forward and > save some money with Pinninfaria. -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
