Fiat design centralized with legendary Pininfarina designer at the helm
Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has engineered a restructuring of the group’s styling divisions below one roof, and has recruited a top talent to Hello How Are you? it up. Nearly two decades following retiring from what i read in his provide as design primary for iconic styling structure Pininfarina, Lorenzo Ramaciotti would become Fiat Group’s new do our utmost of design, responsible for styling new packages for six divisions: Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Fiat Professional (light commercial trucks) and Maserati. The latter has never had its own design division, until now outsourcing its styling to independent real estate as if Pininfarina and Giugiaro’s Italdesign.
After the original announcement in May, the new design main is now to conclude picking up the post. 59 ages old, Ramaciotti was born in Modena, and, ensuing graduating for Turin Polytechnic in ‘72, headed to tedious work for Pininfarina, at which he advanced in the ranks until retiring in June 2005. While at Pininfarina, he oversaw the designs of during 100 projects, surrounded by his favorites the Ferrari 456 GT and Peugeot 407 Coupe, and concepts fancy the Ferrari Mythos and Maserati Birdcage.
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