Italdesign Giugiaro

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Italdesign Giugiaro SpA

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legal form Spa
founding 1968
Seat Moncalieri ( Turin ), Italy
management
  • Jörg Astalosch ( CEO )
Number of employees 1035 (2018)
sales EUR 192.3 million (2018)
Branch Vehicle design
Website www.italdesign.it

Italdesign Zerouno Duerta at the Geneva Motor Show 2018
Railcar of the Copenhagen Metro, designed by Italdesign

The Italdesign Giugiaro SpA (often only Italdesign is called) a design studio for various automotive brands, which for Audi AG belongs. The company designs the bodies , develops the interior vehicle architectures and implements them through to production planning, but does not build them itself.

history

The company was founded by industrial designer Giorgio Giugiaro and engineer Aldo Mantovani. Giugiaro had been head of design at the Turin-based coachbuilder Bertone from 1959 and had held the same position at Ghia from 1965 . At the beginning of 1967 Giugiaro went into business for himself with the design studio Ital Styling , but was in fact still closely linked to Ghia because he did most of the design jobs as a subcontractor for Ghia. Since the second half of 1967 Giugiaro has been keen to offer not only services in the area of ​​design, but also more extensive construction work. The reason for this was Giugiaro's emerging involvement in the development of the Alfasud compact car . To ensure the necessary technical know-how, Giugiaro connected with Aldo Mantovani, who had been production manager at Fiat for 20 years. Together they founded the company SIRP (Stidi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi SpA) in February 1968, which renamed Ital Design that same year and exhibited its first show car at the 1968 Turin Motor Show, the Bizzarrini Manta .

Italdesign became one of the world's leading design studios in the 1970s. It was last managed in the second generation of the family by Giorgio Giugiaro's son Fabrizio .

On May 25, 2010 Volkswagen AG took over a total of 90.1% of the shares in Italdesign through the Audi subsidiary Lamborghini , the remaining shares remained in the possession of the Giugiaro family. In June 2015, Audi also took over the remaining shares.

In 2015, Giorgio and Fabrizio Giugiaro founded the GFG Progetti design studio in Turin , which primarily develops design concepts for electric vehicles on behalf of Chinese companies.

Automotive design

The production vehicles designed by Giugiaro include:

He also designed the Volkswagen with the new design of the 70s:

The VW Tarek rally sports car , which took part in the Paris-Dakar rally in 2003 , was also given a body made by Italdesign.

At the 87th Geneva Motor Show 2017, the Italdesign Zerouno, a sports car limited to five copies, was presented. The 4847 mm long Zerouno has the 5.2 liter naturally aspirated V10 engine known from the Lamborghini Huracán , which accelerates the sports car to 100 km / h in 3.2 seconds. The Zerouno reaches a maximum of 330 km / h. The Roadster version Duerta presented Italdesign on the 88th Geneva Motor Show in March 2018. It too is limited to five copies.

Industrial design

Italdesign Giugiaro designs agricultural machinery , rail vehicles , cameras and other utensils , seating , interiors for transport , sports equipment and much more.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chairman of the Board 2020 Dirk Große-Loheide after Dr. Martens (also at Audi) , accessed June 9, 2020
  2. ↑ a b data and facts. In: audi-mediacenter.com .
  3. ↑ Markus Caspers: Designing Motion: Automobildesigner from 1890 to 1990 , Birkhäuser, 2016, ISBN 9783035607772 , p. 110.
  4. ^ Giorgio Giugiaro: Design Mission for the Automotive Industry . In: Hans-Hermann Braess, Ulrich Seiffert (eds.): Automobildesign und Technik: Formgebung, functionality, Technik , Springer-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 9783834894113 , p. 183.
  5. ↑ Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 305.
  6. ↑ Gernot Goppel: Volkswagen takes over majority in Italdesign Giugiaro. In: hot cars . May 25, 2010, accessed August 2, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Frank Volk: Audi takes full control of Italdesign Giugiaro. In: Automobil Produktion , July 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volkswagen-classic.de
  9. ↑ Uli Baumann: 5 special Huracans for collectors. In: auto, motor and sport . March 7, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Uli Baumann, Gerd Stegmaier: Sports car based on the Audi R8 for € 2.26 million. In: auto, motor and sport . March 6, 2018, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  11. ^ Projects: car and industrial design from 1968. In: italdesign.it (English).