Trevor Fiore

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Trevor Fiore (* 4. April 1937 as Trevor Frost in the UK ) is a former automobile designer of British origin. Fiore was mainly active in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s ; from 1980 he was briefly head of design at Citroën .

De Tomaso Vallelunga
Bond team
Trident Venturer
Alpine A310
Maybe from Fiore: Monteverdi 450 Hai
Citroën Karin

biography

Fiore was born Trevor Frost in Great Britain in 1937. His mother was of Italian descent; her parents were from Milan . In 1952 he began an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Standard Triumph . At the same time, he took art courses in Birmingham , whereupon he got a job in standards design studio in 1956.

In 1962 he left Standard and briefly joined the Compagnie d'Esthétique Industrielle (CEI) in Paris , an atelier of the French automobile designer Raymond Loewy . In 1964 he moved to Italy to the small Turin car body manufacturer Fissore , where he became head of design. Since then he has been using his mother's maiden name. For Fissore he designed studies and series models, especially for smaller car manufacturers such as Alpine , Bond , De Tomaso , Elva , Trident and TVR . Fiore claimed that the body of the Swiss sports car Monteverdi Hai 450 is based on his work, while its manufacturer Peter Monteverdi claimed the authorship for himself. Some reports confirm Fiores' thesis. After that, Monteverdi, who at that time had the bodies of his Gran Turismo models High Speed ​​375 manufactured by Fissore, saw Fiore's designs for the Alpine A310 during a factory visit and adopted its lines for his Hai. Other sources go further. They claim that the design of all Monteverdi models manufactured at Fissore was not by Peter Monteverdi himself, but by Trevor Fiore.

After Monteverdi's influence on Fissore increased in the early 1970s, Fiore separated from Fissore. As a freelance designer, he developed studies for AC , Aston Martin , DAF , Gilbern and Volvo . In the development phase of the later Volvo 343, Fiore designed an alternative to the body design of the DAF plant, but this did not catch on. The prototypes for his designs were often built by the body manufacturer Coggiola in Beinasco .

In January 1980 Fiore initially became a consultant to the French manufacturer Citroën, which after the departure of its chief designer Robert Opron in the autumn of 1975 had not had its own management staff in the design sector for four years. Six months later, Fiore took over the position of Head of Design at Citroën and expanded the in-house studio. Fiore presented several design studies in a short time, including the Citroën Karin and the Xenia project. In 1983, a Citroën design studio was established in Sophia Antipolis under Fiores management .

After a short time, Fiore separated from Citroën. In 1991 he was briefly in contact with Romano Artioli's newly founded company Bugatti Automobili , but was unable to influence the design of the models.

Since then, Fiore has completely withdrawn from the automotive sector.

Fiores designs

literature

Web links

Short biography of Fiores with illustrations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marcus Caspers: Designing Motion: Automobildesigner from 1890 to 1990.Birkhäuser, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0356-0777-2 , p. 103.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Blaube: Hai Live. In: Oldtimer Markt 2/2006. (Documentation about the Monteverdi Hai 450 SS), p. 10 ff.
  3. ↑ 40 years of the Volvo 340/360. Love at second sight. www.www.welt.de, September 19, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Lance Cole: Citroën: The Complete Story. Crowood, 2014, ISBN 978-1-84797-660-4 , p. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Fiore, Trevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frost, Trevor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British vehicle designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1937