GIORGETTO GIUGIARO is often heralded as the most influential automotive designer of the 20th century, a wunderkind revered for his intrinsic ability to create beautiful, balanced, production-ready forms. His work in the Fifties and Sixties— at Fiat and the Italian carrozzerie Bertone and Ghia—was often so startlingly elegant that the contours seemed predestined. Think of his prototypical sports coupe, the 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT; the 1966 Maserati Ghibli, a minatory exemplar of the front-engine–rear-drive GT; or the 1967 De Tomaso Mangusta, a belligerent mid-engine supercar featuring avant-garde Italian tailoring and cudgeling American V-8 potency.
But when Giugiaro started his own firm, Italdesign, in 1968, the sumptuous swoopiness of his early work seemed to exit his system, and he began to focus on language that was, quite literally, edgier. The hallmarks of this period, known as his folded-paper era, include sharp body creases, hard corners, and boxy envelopes. These new designs combined his greatest qualities: purposefulness, adaptivity, and alluring au courant style.
Bu hikaye Road & Track dergisinin August - September 2023 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Giriş Yap
Bu hikaye Road & Track dergisinin August - September 2023 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Giriş Yap
REMADE IN JAPAN
ON A MISSION TO HIGHLIGHT THE COUNTRY'S FINEST ARTISANS, BUILT BY LEGENDS PIECES TOGETHER THE GREATEST-AND MOST EXPENSIVE-SKYLINE RESTOMODS EVER BUILT.
HUMMER. REBORN
After more than a decade, General Motors' profligate son returns.
BABY BLUE
The Mazda Miata gets better without changing much at all.
INSANE BROTHERS.FROM OTHER MOTHERS
The Lamborghini Urus Performante presents with symptoms of Completely Bonkers first seen in the Nineties GMC Typhoon.
Going, Going, Gone
The generational shift that's redefining what a collector car is.
Points for Style Design was always the substance of the Audi TT.
BRIAN MCCAULEY OWNS five Audi TTs. \"It's a cool car. You don't see them very often.\" McCauley explains his affection and affliction. \"It was 'the German Miata.' 'The hairdresser car.' 'It's just a Golf with a Beetle squished on top of it.'
OPEN BORDERS HOW A FERRARI-OBSESSED BUREAUCRAT OPENED AMERICA TO A WORLD OF FORBIDDEN CARS.
FOR THOSE WHO WEREN'T alive or paying sufficient attention, it's hard to explain how grim the Seventies and Eighties were for car enthusiasts.
COLOSSUS OF ROADS
GREAT CARS ARE BUILT IN FACTORIES, BUT THEIR SOULS ARE FOUND ON THE OPEN ROAD. FOUR DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERS REVEAL THE ROADS THAT HELPED CREATE SOME OF OUR FAVORITE VEHICLES.
One RING To RULE them all
After All, WHY NOT? WHy shouldn't we keep lapping the NÜRBURGRING in a factory BMW M4 GT4 Race car?
DUNE BUGGY
THE 911 DAKAR HARNESSES THE SPIRIT OF ITS RALLY-DOMINATING ANCESTORS.