Famous Ferrari car designer Pininfarina no more

MILAN (Reuters): Sergio Pininfarina, whose family company designed almost every Ferrari since the 1950s and whose name is still synonymous with some of the world’s most glamorous cars, has died aged 85.

The company said on Tuesday he died overnight in his Turin home.

Pininfarina had been groomed by his father Gian Battista, a onetime Turin carriage maker who founded the influential car design house in the 1930s, to succeed him in the business since he was a child.

In his half-a-century reign at Pininfarina, the company’s automobile production rose from 524 units per year to more than 50,000

A Ferrari P4/5, designed by Pininfarina, is displayed on media day at the Paris Mondial de l’Automobile in Paris in this 29 September 2006 file photo. Sergio Pininfarina, whose family company designed almost every Ferrari since the 1950s and whose name is still synonymous with some of the world’s most glamorous cars, has died aged 85 – Reuters