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Ferrari designer dies in Vespa accident

Ferrari Designer dies in Vespa crash

It’s not always fun and games on our Vespas. Bad things do happen and this time it just happens to be one of the most famous car designers in the world, Andrea Pininfarina.

From the Wired.Com blog.

Andrea Pininfarina, head of the famed Carozzeria Pininfarina studio that’s designed some of the sexiest cars Italy’s ever produced, died this morning in a scooter accident near the Italian city of Turin. He was 51.

Pininfarina – whose grandfather, Battista “Pinin” Farina, founded the design house in 1930 – died instantly after his Vepsa collided with a Ford Fiesta in the town of Trofarello. Such was the stature of Pininfarina and the firm that bears his family name that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a statement, “I am deeply saddened. (Italy) loses a leading personality of the country’s industrial life and the representative of a dynasty that did so much for the ‘made in Italy’ brand around the world.”

Read the entire article here.

Be careful on the road guys.

4 Responses to “Ferrari designer dies in Vespa accident”

  1. It is ironic that a designer of one of the fastest cars in the world dies in a ride in his vespa. lol.

  2. Coimbatore says:

    The changes occurs due to the cycle of development of fastest cars in the world

  3. It is ironic that a designer of one of the fastest cars in the world dies in a ride in his vespa.

  4. anika says:

    Hi,

    I heard a new scooter brand will be launched, a joint venture of Burberry a scooter brand, called Botinger and Roi.

    Can someone tell me if the scooter brand is Vespa? I want to know cause i love Vespa’s.

    Thanks,

    Anika Larsson

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