Lamborghini Countach? LP400, wedge poster car
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Alfa? Romeo? The concept of Carabo actually predates Countach and obviously inspires it.
He also created Carabo's scissor doors, which opened vertically. If you are not careful, you can really attract people's attention! Wedge is not out of fantasy, but based on the understanding of aerodynamics at that time. The lower the front of the car, the less air enters, thus generating lift, while the inclined top surface and vertical rear part help to make the air flow smoothly. No wonder Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, BMW and Lotus all have wedge-shaped models, which has become a symbol of Lamborghini.
For most supercar designs in 1970s and 1980s, and other great Italian designers of that era, Giorgetto? Giorgetto and Leonardo? Fiora Wanti, these are all iconic things. They were born in the same year as Gandini. Whoever grows up and works hundreds of kilometers apart has greater collective influence on automobile design than anyone else. Is there anything in the water? Or tomatoes? More likely, Italian coach manufacturers and design studios at that time did not use clay models in the design process, but used gypsum models that were difficult to shape curves and had little error space. Push a straight chisel.
one's early years
Born in Turin, Gandini is a bandleader. He studied music, but his early introduction to McConaughey and the impressive Cod? The unexpected discovery of 8 12 touring performers aroused people's strong interest in all mechanical things. Soon, he got tired of art school and began to repair cars for his friends, usually to adjust his body for the competition. Without formal education, he began to design interior and even furniture in his twenties. When a friend took his OSCA. When Baceta took him to build a new car body, the wheels really started. It is said that he told Nuccio in Turin? Bertone Design Studio applied, but was rejected because Giorgetto, the then chief designer, threatened to hire Gandini to resign. But a few years later, 1965, Giorgetto left to join Gia.
sixty
Gandini took Giorgetto's place almost immediately. To this end, he inherited the responsibility of designing the car body for the breakthrough mid-mounted Lamborghini supercar -P400 project, which has been widely carried out by his predecessor. Because Gandini needs to make a lot of adjustments to the design and machinery of the car in these two aspects, its appearance at the 1966 Turin Auto Show is almost not ready.
One of the most beautiful cars ever, Lamborghini Mihura? P400
This car is the beautiful San Pu, and announced the arrival of young designer Gandini. Of course, there are endless rumors about whose design this is, but in most cases, the final car has the basic proportion of Giorgetto's design, which is organically linked by Gandini, who also carried out some technological revolutions in repositioning the automobile radiator.
Lamborghini) Marzal concept car, which inspired the latecomers of Espada grand tour.
The next year, Bertone and Lamborghini will once again shock the world with Marzal's performance car, which is hosted by Gandini. Under the cover of science fiction, Marzal is essentially a stretched Mihura with a very low waist, so it has a bigger greenhouse-you can say it is feasible.
Do you realize that the hexagonal pattern that continues to exist in Lamborghini today is Y-ε?
It is true that silver reflective seats are not really popular, but the decoration in the cockpit and hexagonal elements (such as Mihura) are still the design elements that Lamborghini still refers to after more than 50 years. It also gave birth to Espada driven by V 12 engine, which is a truly spacious four-seater Lamborghini supercar. Never seen such a super run in the world, it didn't appear again until Urus appeared a few years ago.
Citroen BX is a classic Gandini design, which brings angular appearance to mass market cars.
Gandini seems to have got used to breaking the design rules and achieved good results. Little-known Fiat 125? Executive proves that bold design is not limited to super sports cars. Its low waistline and high shoulder line at the rear of the car make the luggage space exceed the expectation of the same size car. Like Fiat, other rapidly developing Gandini designs, such as BMW, which has become a new six-car? E3' s proposal has also been influenced by brands that are not necessarily related to Gandini, and will also have a considerable impact on future cars.
Before Countach became the first car to produce doors, Gandini took the lead in adopting Carabo concept's scissor doors.
However, the car that really made Gandini appear on the map was not named Alfa until 1968 Turin Auto Show. Romeo? In the form of Carabo concept car. Is it 33? Straddle's gorgeous style can't go any further. Judging from the light and smooth lines that people used to watch since the 1960s, Karabo caused a huge wedge-shaped cultural shock. Forgetting that it seems to come from the same era, Carabo doesn't even look like Alfas and Ferraris came from the same planet at that time! The sci-fi Carabo is named after the beetle and painted with the rainbow green of this insect, which creates a trend for the wedge shape. Until1mid-1980s, all manufacturers from Ferrari to Nissan followed this trend!
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Fulvia Chassis Input Lancia Based on Lancia? Stratos? Zero concept, and vice versa. It's too low. On the ground, it even has a rubber pad as the hood for drivers and passengers to wipe their feet when stepping into the overturned windshield.
Lancia Stratos? HF？ Zero concept
Lancia Strastos production car
Stratos is a special certification from scratch, specially built for rally, powered by the V6 engine produced by Ferrari. It is said that Gandini looked around for the car with the shortest wheelbase and found the Alps? A 1 10 similar products, and then try to weaken them. Gandini personally participated in the packaging and chassis design of Stratos? Considering the limitation of installing V6 in a place only 3.7m long, it is not easy!
Ferrari 308? GT4
Fiat x? 1/9
But the relationship between Ferrari and Broadcom continues. Dino, Gandini wrote it? 308? GT4 came out in 1973, which set many precedents for Ferrari. Since 1950s, except Pininfarina, everyone else has created this style. The first medium-sized sports car equipped with V8, the first one equipped with 2? +? 2-seater sports car with mid-engine function. It also has a modeling hint connected with Stratos, that is, wedge-shaped, fan-shaped C-pillar, trumpet-shaped wheel arch and short and thick tail. Gandini's appearance is quite good. It first proposed Autobianchi? Runabout concept. From the appearance, this concept has evolved into a gorgeous Fiat X? 1/9 sports car, it seems very interesting.
This makes us the poster boy of the poster car-Lamborghini Countach. Like Gandini's greatest single, it's all in one. It embodies Gandini's perfect wedge, scissor door, asymmetric wheel arch, pop-up headlights and truncated rear. It's so weird, it's still hard to believe that it has been put into production! As a part of Bertone, Gandini works for Alfa Romeo. From Romeo to BMW to Citroen, everyone provides pens for cars, and his signature style appears on these brands from time to time, especially on cars with similarities. Super sports cars are mainly wedge-shaped, GT has iconic tail drum and kamm tail, while family cars have low waistlines, which can maximize vision and space.
The eighties
It is often said that the best cars in the 1980s were designed in the 1970s. A quick glance at the cars of this decade will reveal that this is true. Most of them are more like the past than Gandini design! After 1979 left Bertone, he worked in Renault No.5 for a period of time as the exclusive design consultant of Renault? A sketch of Turbo and its rear body and the design of the second generation Renault Supercinque.
Renault 5? turbine
From front engine door to middle engine door (dual power), R5? Turbo has gradually developed into the most powerful rally car, while Supercinque continues to be popular. Another Citroen project revived Volvo tundra (Volvo? Tundra), and the Swedes think this design is too weird, but it happens to be the alley of this French company. As far as eccentricity is concerned, nothing is crazier than the car that the former Lamborghini engineer thought of. There are basically two sapphires? V8 provides power for it.
Zizeta? Morrod? V 16T
Zizeta? V 16T can be called the original version of Diablo, because Chrysler, the new owner of Lamborghini, rejected them because Gandini used the final sketch of Diablo. Cizeta has nothing to do, only 20 cars have been built.
the nineties
Lamborghini Diablo is the first Lamborghini to gain new ownership. Although Gandini's design was adopted, Detroit designers softened their production line in order to attract more mass markets. This seems to have worked. Diablo has become one of Lamborghini's best-selling cars, with less than 3,000 cars sold in the past decade.
The original Lamborghini Diablo took a purer route than VT, SE and SV.
This is similar to another great revival of Bugatti brand, which originated from mixed design and has a long history. Gandini provided the initial sketch as EB 1 10, and even created the prototype of Bugatti 035, but the racing car was built by Giampaolo, the architect of Bugatti Factory. Benedini is finished. Even if Gandini's design is softened, he still keeps in touch with the manufacturer. Maserati President IV is a good example, with iconic Gandini elements, such as asymmetric wheel arches.
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In addition to trying to use two-wheeled vehicles and helicopters, Gandini continued to design various vehicles. Some products, such as Stola with Stratos-style tapered windshield in the early 2000s? S8 1 is more like some of his signature designs. However, the torch relay is always difficult. The good news is that sharp design is now favored by people again. People like MAT? Modern reincarnation products like Stratos mean that a new generation of petrol heads can be curious about wedge-shaped and angular designs, hoping that they can look up and find cars designed and influenced by Gandini. There will never be too many straight lines in this world.
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