{"id":460243,"date":"2004-08-01T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=98027"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:24:39","slug":"pininfarina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/pininfarina\/","title":{"rendered":"Pininfarina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We celebrate Ferrari in this issue [Click here to see Ferrari Special Issue<\/a>], but how much is Fer\u00adrari\u2019s success due to Pin\u00adinfarina? In the early days of the marque, En\u00adzo Ferrari ran an open competition among Italian carrozzeria and many essayed de\u00adsigns, but customers preferred those styled by Pininfarina. With the exception of the Dino 308 GT4 by Bertone, Pin\u00adinfarina has styled every Ferrari that can be considered a production model. The prices asked for the GT4 today tell their own story. It is a handsome car, but Pininfarina\u2019s designs are sexy.<\/p>\n

Under the skin, Ferraris were often crude. In Elaine May\u2019s 1970 movie, \u201cA New Leaf,\u201d Walter Matthau\u2019s character, an ageing playboy, drives a Ferrari that gives him an image, but which also coughs and splutters in traffic. The joke only worked because people believed that was what Fer\u00adraris did. For Matthau\u2019s character, however, the important thing was not how his car went (he wore a crash helmet when driving) but how it looked. As I have said before, the essence of a sports car is that it is a mating call.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n