Possibly the most famous postwar Pinin Farina car, with its synthetic plasctic shape, said by Arthur Drexler in 1951 to be a “rolling sculpture”. But its shapes are the finishing point of all the previous research. Simple essential front end. Full volume roof panel, with clearly designed rear window. Built in a short production run for Cisitalia.

This is the most famous of all the Ferrari racing spiders. For the first time in the history of large-calibre Ferraris, the new model did not have an abbreviation, but a proper name, which hearkened back to the legendary 1950s and surrounding years, when the racetracks of the world trembled at the power of the Ferrari “Testa Rossa”, named for the colour of paint (red) used on the cylinder heads of their engines. This model combines the brashness of a prototype and the refinement of a road car. Its production-oriented design has allowed an unexpectedly large series to be built.

Pininfarina built this de luxe car on the chassis of the Flaminia with an extended wheelbase for the President of the Italian Republic. It was also used that same year by British royal family during thier official visit for the celebrations of the Centenary of Italian unifications. A few units were manufactured.

This mass-produced spider was later to be known as the “Duetto”. The brilliant idea from a styling point of view is the lenticular shape which made it become known as the “cuttlefish bone”. It has a transversal oval section shape interrupted by a central “hull” along the entire side. The front has radiator grille and air intake under the perimeter line. The two air intakes are in the bumpers. Streamlined headlights. Well tapered double bending windscreen with a very big boot.

This is one of the most successfull models mass-produced by Pininfarina and exported in large numbers to the United States. With a very pure line the side has a dihedron motif which starting from the head of the front mudguard extends with a slight movement up to the rear. Horizontal lamellar front air intake, bonnet shaped for increased negative lift, wraparoung bumpers. The back part is designed with a characteristic broad V shaped motif which encloses the truncated rear.

Ferrari Modulo is an extreme special berlinetta, single-volume, experimental one-off prototype, built on the Ferrari 512S chassis, of a futuristic car breaking the fetters of the traditional stylistic language, representing the atmosphere of the early Seventies. Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in 1970 (in the pearl light blue colour), it won 22 international design awards for a “pure formal research, in its intentional geometricity”. The prototype was selected to represent the best of Italian coach building skill at the 1970 Osaka Expo and was displayed as envoy of Italian design, in Mexico City in 1971.

To celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the company, Automobili Pininfarina unveiled the Battista Anniversario in the Pininfarina design studio in Cambiano at the end of February 2020. The car is the world’s first luxury pure electric hypercar, and just five units examples will be built. The car presents aerodynamic refinements such as a new rear wing, diffuser and spoilers and front splitters and lateral blades. Thanks to 21-inch superlight forged aluminium wheels the unsprung weight is further reduced and the car can achieves a top speed of 350 kph.