22 Facts About Pininfarina

1.

Pininfarina is employed by a wide variety of automobile manufacturers to design vehicles.

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Since the 1980s, Pininfarina has designed high-speed trains, buses, trams, rolling stocks, automated light rail cars, people movers, yachts, airplanes, and private jets.

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3.

Pininfarina is registered and publicly traded on the Milan Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana.

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4.

Pininfarina was run by Battista's grandson Andrea Pininfarina from 2001 until he died in 2008.

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5.

In 1966, Pininfarina opened the Studies and Research Centre in Grugliasco.

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6.

In 1983, Pininfarina reached an agreement with General Motors to design and build the Cadillac Allante.

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7.

In 1996, Mitsubishi entered into talks for Pininfarina to build their new compact SUV, the Pajero, in Italy.

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8.

Pininfarina announced Piero Ferrari, Alberto Bombassei, and the Marsiaj family, will join with Vincent Bollore, a French financier, and Ratan Tata, head of India's Tata Group conglomerate, who already announced their plans to invest.

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On 31 December 2008, Pininfarina announced a debt restructuring that would require the family to sell its stake in the company.

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10.

Pininfarina released a statement saying that it is still gathering "possible offers from potential buyers, " adding it would release more information when it was appropriate.

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11.

Pininfarina lost a million in the first quarter of the preceding year, though that figure dropped to just under a million during Q1 2012.

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12.

In 2009 Pininfarina sold the factory to Finpiemonte, the public finance of the Piedmont Region, at the price of 14.

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13.

On 15 May 2013 Pininfarina announced the BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupe to be revealed on 24 May at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este.

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14.

Pininfarina has an area dedicated to the new electric car Pininfarina Bollore.

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Pininfarina, has introduced its own electric vehicle concept, the Pininfarina B0 .

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16.

Pininfarina displayed a turbine-powered plug-in hybrid called the Cambiano at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.

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17.

At the 2016 Geneva Motor Show Pininfarina revealed the H2 Speed, an electric sports car concept.

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18.

On 27 November 2018, it was announced that Automobili Pininfarina had invested over €20m in Pininfarina design services to support plans for its range of luxury electric cars.

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19.

In December 1999, Pininfarina cooperated with Casio and designed a watch under its label, the G-Shock GE-2000.

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20.

Pininfarina was a design contractor for the development of the Coca-Cola Freestyle drinks dispenser.

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21.

Pininfarina was asked to design a new spray gun for Anest Iwata, creating the Supernova Pininfarina.

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22.

Pininfarina Extra, founded in 1986, is the Pininfarina Group design company which does not work in the transport sector.

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