#Pininfarina Azzurra

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1984 Pininfarina Azzurra

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Pininfarina Azzurra

Pininfarina took over the production of the Fiat 124 Spider as the rebadged Azzurra from 1982 to 1985. This 1983 Pininfarina Azzurra is a modified example that is finished in Azzurra Blue over black leather upholstery and is powered by a 2.0L twin-cam inline-four mated to a five-speed manual transmission. Additional equipment includes a black soft top, 15″ Panasport-style wheels, dual Weber carburetors, a custom grille, fog lights, dual roll hoops, four-wheel disc brakes, Koni shocks and springs, and a Kenwood head unit. Aftermarket 15″ Panasport-style wheels are mounted with 205/50 Dunlop Direzza DZ101 tires. Koni shocks and springs have been installed. Larger front brakes from a modern Fiat 500 have been added along with rear discs in place of the factory drums. The 2.0L twin-cam inline-four was overhauled with replacement rings, gaskets, and internal components by Equipment includes dual Weber downdraft carburetors, aftermarket camshafts, an aftermarket exhaust system, and an aluminum radiator. Power is sent to the rear wheels through a five-speed manual transmission .

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1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo Concept Promised the Future (Part 1 of 2)

All that's left are scissor doors.

DEC 3, 2015 BY DAVEY G. JOHNSON

Since the dawn of the automobile—or at the very least, the birth of the Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901—the industry has drifted toward non-rectilinear shapes. Even the phone-booth-upright Ford Model T featured as many round forms as Henry Ford deemed financially prudent. For those of us born in the 1970s, the angular machines we grew up with seemed normal and modern; anything curvaceous was obviously archaic. A Ferrari 330GTS may as well have been an MGA, which could’ve been a Cord, for all we cared. Only survivors like the Beetle, 911, Mini, and the Fiat 124/Pininfarina Azzurra definitively bucked the trend, and they were recognizably vehicles that had sallied forth from an earlier time, vehicles who somehow beat back all attempts at replacement. Looking back now, it’s easy to see that the straight-edge styling of the 1970s and 1980s was merely a blip, an aberration. But if that strange period has roots anywhere, they’re right here, in the form of the Alfa Romeo Carabo from 1968.

Gandini had conceived of the wedge shape as a way to combat the Miura’s tendency to raise its front end at speed. But at a time when Europe was undergoing upheaval—the Paris uprisings of May ’68, Soviet tanks rolling into Czechoslovakia, Andreas Baader’s early arson escapade in Germany, and tensions in Northern Ireland, to name but a few episodes in that turbulent year—why notstart with a clean sheet that looked toward the future? Even if it wasn’t Gandini’s intent, the car’s straight, stern lines offered a respite from chaos, while the beetle-green paint imbued it with a sense of otherworldly playfulness.

While the underpinnings were merely a refinement of what had come before, including a screaming 2.0-liter V-8 fed by SPICA mechanical fuel injection and nestled behind the cabin in a tube chassis, the exterior broke almost wholly with convention. Rather than a collection of forms, the Carabo was a single, hewn mass. Like the new 1968 Corvette and the Opel GT, the Alfa featured pop-up headlights. Unlike the swoopy General Motors products, the Carabo’s rose out of a practically-flat front panel. The doors swung upward, allowing ingress over the thick sills in tight spaces. Gandini would later reuse the idea for the Miura’s replacement, the mighty Countach, a car that outwardly seemed to have more in common with the Alfa Romeo than its own predecessor.

Sports and concept-car designers immediately took note. Nuccio Bertone, Gandini’s employer, put pen to paper and came up with the radical Stratos 0 (or Zero) concept. Pininfarina put its own space-age twist on the idea with the Ferrari 512S–based Modulo, now owned by Jim Glickenhaus. William Towns applied the precepts to a luxury sedan, resulting in the wonderful, complex Aston Martin Lagonda. Essentially, Europe had gone wedge-crazy. Even conservative Ferrari recruited Bertone to pen the successor to the Dino 246GT, the underrated 308GT4, then promptly returned to Pininfarina for their entry-level car’s stunning two-seat variants. Still, the famed concern’s Leonardo Fioravanti had clearly been nipping at the geometric Kool-Aid when he penned the 1972 365GT4 2+2, which later evolved into the 400 and the 412.

While Giorgetto Giugiaro was no stranger to high-powered sporting machines, having designed the lovely, troubled De Tomaso Mangusta during his tenure at Ghia, he truly made his mark on the industry with the first iteration of Volkswagen’s Golf and its more-sporting sibling, the Scirocco, which applied the Carabo’s strict lines in a more friendly, approachable form, setting a template that would influence every hatchback from the very-European Ford Fiesta to the bog-American Chevy Citation.

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1983 Pininfarina Azzurra

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My 1983 Pininfarina Azzurra. Designed by the same man who designed the Ferrari 365 California, Aston Martin Lagonda Coupé , and the De Tomaso Pantera among others. 撸先生：看片神器，每日更新，高清流畅，无需翻墙，t.cn/EVvnoK4

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Fiat 500 Spiaggina Special Edition

L’atmosfera è quella di Capri, gli anni quelli del boom economico. La Fiat 500 Spiaggina, che debutta il 4 luglio 1958, diventa subito un piccolo cult, amata da attrici, imprenditori e personaggi della high society dell’isola. Oggi, a distanza di 60 anni, Lapo Elkann, presidente e direttore creativo di Garage Italia, ha reinterpretato la Dolce Vita in chiave 4.0 e ha fatto rinascere l’essenza di questa vettura iconica, aggiungendo un ulteriore tassello al progetto Garage Italia.

Per festeggiare il 60esimo compleanno di Spiaggina, Garage Italia e Fiat hanno preparato due tributi molto speciali. La Spiaggina by Garage Italia, realizzata con il  contributo di Pininfarina e il supporto del brand Fiat. Inoltre, per celebrare il compleanno della iconica 500 e i 60 anni della Spiaggina, il marchio Fiat presenta la nuova serie speciale Spiaggina ’58 su base Fiat 500C.

«Amore a prima vista, di quelli che fulminano anima e cuore. Sono queste le sensazioni che provo ogni volta che guardo una 500 e che ne guido una. Da piccolo me ne sono subito innamorato e crescendo ho desiderato farla rinascere. Sono felice che il suo rilancio possa far rivivere quel sogno e quegli anni magici del Boom Economico e della gioia di vivere italiana», dice Lapo. «Ne ho sempre personalizzate per me e con l’apertura di Garage Italia abbiamo potuto disegnare una moltitudine di versioni uniche che hanno confermato la versatilità e la grande attualità di questo veicolo che, ancora oggi, è uno dei love brands più amati in tutto il mondo».

Colori tipicamente estivi, Azzurro Volare e Bianco Perla, caratterizzano la livrea bicolore della carrozzeria con finiture in blu Garage e gli abbinamenti dei rivestimenti interni. Il tetto, come da tradizione per la Spiaggina anni ’60, non c’è più e lo spazio per i passeggeri posteriori è stato trasformato in un ampio vano con doccina integrata per portare con sé tutto il necessario per una giornata al lago o al mare.

La show car ha un parabrezza nautico ribassato e il rivestimento del pianale di carico è in sughero dogato con un pattern che riprende il design a listelli dei pavimenti in teak degli yacht di lusso, da cui siamo certi presto vedremo sbarcare la macchina grazie agli appositi ganci di carico. I due sedili anteriori sono stati sostituiti da una panchetta creata su misura che richiama il design tipico delle vetture degli anni 60, impreziosita dai rivestimenti in pelle Foglizzo Leather bianca e azzurra, con trattamento impermeabilizzante. Gli pneumatici sono Pirelli P Zero Nero GT che richiamano l’aspetto delle vetture anni 50.

  L'articolo Fiat 500 Spiaggina Special Edition sembra essere il primo su Vogue.it.

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1983 Pininfarina Azzurra 

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