Marcello Gardini: Legend of car design dies
The man who designed the Lamborghini seen racing up Italian mountain roads in the classic Michael Caine film has died.
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The man who designed the Lamborghini seen racing up Italian mountain roads in the classic Michael Caine film has died.
Marcello Gandini, who has died aged 85, was revered as the designer of numerous supercars, notably the Lamborghinis Miura and Countach, and the Lancia Stratos, but he was a design influence far beyond such exotica; through his work for mainstream motor manufacturers in the heyday of classic pencil-sketched car design, Gandini shaped an era.
A renaissance man and a true industrial designer, never a car ‘stylist’, he even created the face of the modern HGV with the Renault Magnum
Talk to the committed Renault fan today, and if they were around in the '60s or at all interested in classic cars, chances are they will mention the Alconi.