Nothing against Pinninfaria. Did not realize that my post sounded like that. Just merely stating that the only way I could think of Fiat buying Bertone was to save on design costs.
Stefano Concord, CA On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Steven Luftman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
