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While we're all at the greatest single day car event in the world, we hear some people decided there's something going on on our nation's left coast. Whatever. The Pininfarina Hyperion — a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe with a coachbuilt body — has been unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours. Its owner, Roland Hall, for whom the regular $412,000 car wasn’t exclusive enough, has dedicated the Hyperion to the late Andrea Pininfarina, who designed the custom carbon fiber body. Aside from the swoopy lines, the main difference appears to be the swooptastic windscreen, which is moved back 400mm creating room for wooden gun lockers between it and the engine bay. That material is carried over to the rear yacht-like deck and the doors, which are solid wood. Also included is a custom Girard-Perregaux timepiece, which can be detached from the dash and worn on a wristband. Click through for full details. More »
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Based on the Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe (plus a pile of collector money), the Pininfarina Hyperion represents the last coachbuilt automobile completed under the watchful eye of Andrea Pininfarina. Set to debut at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance, the Hyperion will have to share the spotlight with the pop-top Veyron but we suspect it'll garner more attention considering the recent untimely death of Mr. Pininfarina. If we're honest about it, they may have whiffed the design a bit based on this first image, but it's probably pretty spectacular in person. [Carscoop] More »
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Andrea Pininfarina, CEO of Italian design and contract manufacturer Pininfarina, died Thursday morning in a road accident near Turin at the age of 51. Details are still sketchy, but the first local police reports say a car crashed into Pininfarina's motorbike in the city of Trofarello, Italy while he was riding to the company's design and R&D center in Cambiano. More »
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