Andrea Pininfarina, Ferrari Designer, Dies in Vespa Crash at 51

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Aug 7, 2008 | 12:27 PM

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Andrea Pininfarina, Ferrari Designer, Dies in Vespa Crash at 51

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7547267.stm

Andrea Pininfarina, head of a world-famous Italian car design group, has been killed in a road accident.

He was chief executive officer of the family firm Pininfarina, which has designed sports cars for Ferrari, Maserati, Volvo and Fiat.

RIP, he had some nice designs.

Aug 7, 2008 | 12:36 PM

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Andrea Pininfarina, Ferrari Designer, Dies in Vespa Crash at 51

Dude died riding his Vespa, bummer.

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Andrea Pininfarina, the chief executive of Pininfarina SpA, a designer of sports cars including Ferrari Testarossas and Fiat SpA's Alfa Spider, was killed today when his motor scooter collided with a Ford. He was 51.

Pininfarina died instantly after his Vespa hit the Ford Fiesta at about 8:15 a.m. in Trofarello near the northern city of Turin, Italy, said police official Luigi Semenzato. A company spokeswoman declined to give more details.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...E&refer=europe

Aug 7, 2008 | 12:38 PM

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Let's use your title Overclocker, it's more detailed

You can edit my title right? Not sure of what powers mods/adminds have.

Aug 7, 2008 | 01:23 PM

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A shame.

The Pininfarina group was known for more than just sports and exotic car design. They had a hand in a number of different buisnesses.

Aug 7, 2008 | 02:20 PM

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RIP to a guy who knew how to make some sexy machines...

Aug 7, 2008 | 02:57 PM

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Let's use your title Overclocker, it's more detailed

You can edit my title right? Not sure of what powers mods/adminds have.

Done. We have all kinds of magic powers!

Aug 7, 2008 | 05:33 PM

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Very sad. One of the first Pininfarina-designed cars I remember seeing was the Fiat 124 Spider. I assume it was maybe Andrea's father who designed that in the late 60's. As a group, the designed beautiful and very cutting edge vehicles. RIP and coldolences to the family.

Aug 8, 2008 | 10:25 AM

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That's sad

RIP

Aug 8, 2008 | 10:59 AM

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sad news
RIP

damn Ford, the car must have been programmed on assembly line to take out CEOs of the competitions lol

Aug 8, 2008 | 02:01 PM

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Kinda ironic. The designer of Ferrari was killed by a Ford, the same way Ford was trying to "kill" Ferrari back in the mid 60's.

RIP Andrea Pininfarina

Yeah, but there was no GT40 involved this time.

Aug 8, 2008 | 02:07 PM

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very sad, RIP

Aug 8, 2008 | 06:42 PM

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Tragic. A car versus scooter accident, he had no chance. Sad, very sad.

Aug 8, 2008 | 07:12 PM

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heres an important lesson
when you are rich or very important, dont ride on a bike/motorcycle/scooter
dont risk it

ride in a maybach or something super safe