Coggiola Carrozziere

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Coggiola Carrozziere
legal form Corporation
founding 1966
Seat Beinasco , Italy
Branch Body shop
Website www.coggiola.com

Coggiola Carrozziere Srl (short: Coggiola ) is an Italian manufacturer of automobile bodies . The company is considered to be one of the market leaders in the manufacture of prototypes and exhibits.

Company history

Coggiola is based in the Piedmontese municipality of Beinasco near Turin . The company was founded in 1966 by Sergio Coggiola (1928–1989), a designer who had previously worked for Carrozzeria Ghia for 15 years .

In 1969, Coggiola began working with the Swedish car manufacturer Saab . Saab's first order was for the Sonett sports car , whose 1964 design Coggiola developed into the Sonett III. About 8,300 copies of the Sonett III were produced from 1970 to 1974. It is the only Coggiola design that went into series production. In 1978, Coggiola designed a station wagon based on the Saab 96 , which was only manufactured as a single prototype. At the same time, Coggiola also worked for Saab's competitor Volvo . In 1971, Coggiola made a hatchback coupe based on the Volvo P1800 . A few years later, the first prototype of the Volvo 262 C designed by Jan Wilsgaard was created , which was still technically based on a Volvo 164 and also had its front section. Series production of the 262C was ultimately taken over by Bertone .

Since the 1980s, Coggiola has worked without any ties to any particular automobile manufacturer. The company mostly implements third-party designs, such as Trevor Fiore's design of the Citroën Karin concept vehicle , the Lamborghini Portofino or the prototypes of the Renault Megane . Coggiola also creates individual vehicles that customers order as individual items. Examples of this are the Bentley B2 and B3 coupes and convertibles, which Pininfarina designed for the Sultan of Brunei. Coggiola produced a total of 17 copies of this special model from 1994 to 1996. However, individual models were also designed by Coggiola itself; These include the asymmetrically designed Coggiola Janus , the pick-up study Surf based on the Fiat Punto and the Coggiola T-Rex , a large off-road station wagon on a Hummer chassis.

gallery

  • Saab Sonnet III

  • Saab 98

  • Citroën Karin

  • Lamborghini Portofino

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coggiola on the GTÜ-Oldtimerservice website (accessed on February 1, 2016).
  2. ↑ Dean Bachelor, Chris Poole, Graham Robson: The Great Book of Sports Cars. Müller, Erlangen 1990 (no ISBN), p. 362 f.
  3. ↑ Dieter Günther: The Saab developments . In: Oldtimer Markt special issue prototypes, April 1987, p. 121 ff.
  4. ↑ Image of the converted Volvo 164 on the website www.volvobertone.com accessed on February 1, 2016.
  5. ↑ Overview of the Bentley models B2 and B3 on the website www.rrsilverspirit.com (accessed on February 1, 2016).
  6. ↑ Description and illustration of the Coggiola T-Rex on the website www.caranddriver.com (accessed on February 1, 2016).