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At a recent visit to Giugiaro, this 50-year-old unnamed Lamborghini, never before seen, suddenly appeared like an undiscovered Shakespeare manuscript, discreetly displayed in a library with no one paying attention. More »
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You've already seen the other VW/Giugiaro collabo at Geneva, the Go! The Tex is less futuristic, but far more plausible as a next-wave design marker. Could this be the next Golf? It's as good a direction as any. More »
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Giorgetto Giugiaro's pen is the reason the Mk1 Volkswagen Rabbit/Golf and Scirocco appear to have stopped time. This past May, VW bought the design house Giugiaro founded, Italdesign, and can now have anything Giugiaro it wants, including another 13-foot-long hatchback. More »
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Two concepts from Volkswagen-owned design house Italdesign Giugiaro, leaked via European patents, show off a future design for a Golf/Scirocco-sized vehicle and a Polo-sized vehicle. More »
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Walter de'Silva, head of Volkswagen design, has reinterpreted a Leica camera to the tune of $26,500. He's not the first car designer to venture into camera design. In the red corner is Giorgetto Giugiaro of Nikon and supercar fame. More »
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The Frazer-Nash Namir by Giugiaro claims to be the world's fastest hybrid. The car unveiled in Geneva is a 187 MPH missile miserly enough to run on vapors. How fitting. More »
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We don't know why Giugiaro named this after a long-defunct builder of idiosyncratic British sports cars, but the Frazer Nash concept is looking to become the world's fastest hybrid with a 186 MPH top speed. More »
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Does the BMW M1 Homage concept we saw yesterday try just a little too hard to impress? Does a bear shit in the woods? The gaping maw of modern styling is chewing through heritage designs at an astonishing rate, and starting to look at eras not often remembered fondly for its great cars. Just because the malaise era produced blasé cars doesn't mean there wasn't cool styling. It was 1970 and a young Giorgetto Giugiaro had joined Ital Design and, as his fourth concept car, produced the Porsche Tapiro. The Tapiro was based on the Porsche 914/6 but managed to break all of the Porsche molds. More »
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The Giugiaro folks have been teasing us for days with cropped crap shots of the Quaranta concept car they'll be revealing at the Geneva Motor Show next week. Now we've got a set of press photos of the edgy wedge that's been four decades in the coming in all of its full glory. Oh, and we told you it'd be greener around the gills, but did we tell you it's getting Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive? No? Well it will. Again we must tell you — look, but don't touch. We wouldn't want you to hurt yourself on all those sharp pointy parts. Full commentary from the boys at World Car Fans after the jump. More »
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The good little Italian boys n' girls over at Italdesign have gone ahead and released their third batch of teaser shots of the car we're very much looking forward to seeing in Geneva next month, the Giugiaro Quaranta. We've already shown you a few shots and this hot load rounds out the threesome of teaser shots from the Italian design shop. Oh and yes, that's right — we were also very much right on the name — it's the Quaranta which is Italian for forty. Qua-ran-ta! Quah-ran-tah! Qua-rahn-ta! No matter how you say it, it's sure fun to pronounce, isn't it? Probably as much fun as it'll be to see in person. We'll be careful to not cut our fingers on those sharp lines and creases. More »
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Giugiaro has released another teaser image of its forthcoming Geneva concept car. So far nameless, commenter Mark Miller has made an educated guess that it'll be called Quaranta - Italian for forty. 2008 is ItalDesign's 40th birthday. We also predict some sort of hypothetical green power plant, you know the kind that is supposedly capable of saving the world, but is really just some hot air stored under a heavily tinted engine cover. All the speculation will end on March 4th, when the vehicle is officially revealed at the Geneva Motor Show. [Via Giugiaro] More »
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The big teases at Giugiaro are planning on dropping a hot new concept car on Tuesday, March 4th at the Geneva Motor Show. So far there's no details other than these shots and the promise of an "Exclusive Event," which we assume means a bunch of auto hacks in Fiat fleeces. They've also used the tag line "Nature has never been so powerful," so we're going to go out on a limb here and assume the vehicle will have some sort of green power, maybe a hydrogen fuel cell. Check out our Geneva Motor Show page for full show coverage. [Via Giugiaro] More »
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With last weeks whopping, landslide inclusion of the McLaren F1 (96.8% yes) we asked ourselves, "How many more hot-shit performance monsters do we really need in this here Fantasy Garage?" Along with the F1, we've got the king of the world Veyron and the over-performing Ford GT. We've even (somehow) still got the RUF RT12. With that in mind we've decided to slow things down (a bit) and ask you to contemplate a true heart string plucker, the amazing Maserati Bora. And actually for its time, the Bora could fly. Have a look. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=330089&view=rss&microfeed=true Our connection over at Fast Lane Daily scored a drive in the Fabrizio Giugiaro-designed Giugiaro Mustang. Some say the orange custom job — with, er, Mustang-skin interior? — hearkens the look of the next-gen Mustang. Could be, though Ford's got a tunnel to get through before we can start thinking about that kind of thing. More »
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Seriously, if you were Giorgietto Giugiaro, wouldn't you drive your one-off Ferrari concept car across the Alps to Switzerland? And once you got there, wouldn't you just slam it into a parking garage, in sight of all the plebes' Ford Focus C-Maxes and Renault Twingos? The Winding Roadies caught Giugiaro's Ferrari GG50, which was a gift to himself on occasion of his family firm's 50th anniversary. It even has road mud. We'd imagine him saying something like, "The car, she is made to be driven, not kept like in a root cellar next to the dried cod, like grandmother." Maybe not exactly like that. – Mike Spinelli More »
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What happens when a famous Italian design house builds a conceptual two seater around BMW's Hydrogen 7 motor? Hilarity is bound to ensue. Actually, ItalDesign-Giugiaro's VAD.HO concept is less hilarious than future-slick. It looks like one of those Pinewood Derby cars built by some kid's dad who works at NASA. It's got an asymmetrical layout, with the laterally oriented cockpit to one side, and the BMW liquid hydro engine to the other (the whole thing is about the size of a Ferrari Maranello). The cockpit has some neato video terminals, with an interface and optical technologies designed for aerospace applications. All controls can be manipulated by joysticks; one in the rear works only with the IT system. Aside from being a tech piece, the VAD.HO is also the showcase car for ItalDesign's new identity, which trades on the name of its founder, Giorgietto Giugiaro. – Mike Spinelli More »
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The Italdesign-Giugiaro group, aka Giorgietto's Playhouse, created this concept racer as a showcase for the Italian design shop's new corporate identity. It's called the Vadh , and it's powered by a mid-mounted engine of some displacement running on liquid hydrogen. Joysticks control the in-line two seater, and all of its components are drive by wire. No details yet, other than that it'll be unveiled to some fanfare at the Geneva show next week. – Mike Spinelli More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=239678&view=rss&microfeed=true Heir to the Giugiaro design legend, "little" Fabrizio offers a designer's eye look at the Giugiaro Mustang concept that bears his name. He also predicts the start of a new era in design in Detroit, a statement uttered so frequently during the past 30 years, it's got no more gravity than a recipe for Chex Mix. Special cameo by papa Giorgetto. – Mike Spinelli More »
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What happens when the most celebrated Italian designers get their hands on a Mopar catalog? Nothing much, these days (perhaps a Bertone-tuned Jeep Compass?). But there was a time when such pairups were as fruitful as the Rossellini-Bergman mashup. One such fruit was the Ghia 450SS, a Barracuda-powered model, designed by Giorgetto Guigiaro and built by Ghia's coachworks. Only 52 450SSs were hand built, and one of the specimens recently surfaced on the eBay machine. Still, with only 10 hours left as of this writing, and not a single bidder — at an opening price of $69,500 — we'd imagine the market hasn't quite raised its voice on these classics, the buying of which is still only a style play. Low supply plus low demand equals, huh? – Mike Spinelli [UPDATE: More on the 450SS from David at Hemmings] More »
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That's me, half-loaded, pretending to share a laugh with the master of retrofuturism, J Mays, at the Italdesign Giugiaro Mustang launch party. I'm apologizing in advance about the chest hair. When I drink, I get warm. And Ford was handing out the free booze, not me... – Jonny Lieberman More »
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Yes, yes — Giorgetto's son and J Mays fired up the engine of the savagely orange Italdesign Mustang. But the highlight of the night was when Autoblog Frank, fueled by the courage only whiskey and Diet Coke can provide, began talking about how hot Lara Flynn Boyle's Victoria's Secret stylings in Men in Black II were, while seated on a couch next to Lara Flynn Fucking Boyle!! Why was Ms. Boyle there? Why were the martinis leading me to believe she was checking me out? Why is the "low tire pressure" warning light in my car on? Viva Los Angeles, Los Jalopniks and all our rowdy friends. – Jonny Lieberman More »
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If you thought the Ford Mustang was a fine car, just not quite Italian enough, you'll probably get all weepy when the company unveils a new Giugiaro-designed concept car at the Los Angeles show. (That is, unless you think Lambo doors are just too Italian.) The design house smoothed out the Mustang's retro design, giving it a more modern, sleeker look — which some might assume hearkened the next-gen model, set for 2010. But Ford execs will likely say this is purely a styling exercise, not an augur of what's to come. The concept also gets the GT's 4.6-liter V8, supercharged and tweaked by Ford Racing to get in the range of 500 hp. We'll see more during the LA press preview days tomorrow and Thursday. – Mike Spinelli More »
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Thanks to Dutch car mag, Autovisie, we've got tentative proof the top-secret Giugiaro Mustang — a concept car reported to be a joint project of Ford design boss J Mays and ItalDesign's Fabrizio Giugiaro — exists in sheetmetal form. Set for a debut at the Los Angeles auto show later this month, the Italianized 'Stang will, according to Wards's Auto have the most powerful Mustang engine developed to date. It's not the first time an Italian had his way with a Mustang; at the 1965 New York Auto Show, Nuccio Bertone's showed off his company's 100th design — a prototype Ford Mustang commissioned by Automobile Quarterly and designed by then Bertone sidekick, Giorgetto Giugiaro. – Mike Spinelli More »
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Those who were expecting the next-generation Mini Cooper to be a product of German engineers channeling Britain's moddish '60s (an efficiently rendered acid trip, to be sure) should realign their expectations toward those country's romantic neighbors. In fact, the 2007 Mini will have more French and Italian in it than a Latvian prostitute at the G8 conference. According to AutoWeek the drivetrain will be a product of France's Peugeot-Citroen, while the body and chassis engineering is being handled in its entirety by Italiadesign Giugiaro. More »
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Auto designer Giorgietto Giugiaro is celebrating is 50 years in the business not with cake (well, maybe with cake too) but with a concept Ferrari coupe that he says marks his "great adventure" in the world of car design. That concept is the Ferrari GG50, a compact 2+2 coupe built on a shortened version of the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti platform. It also appears suspiciously similar to the 600 "Imola" (or Testarossa) coupe that's destined to replace the current Ferrari 575M [violin theme builds]. More »
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