[NBR] World famous car designer dies on a scooter...

AxeYrCat · Post by **AxeYrCat** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:22 pm

Andrea Pininfarina, head of a world-famous Italian car design group, has been killed in a road accident.

Mr Pininfarina was riding a scooter which was hit by a car on the outskirts of Turin early on Thursday. He was 51.

He was chief executive officer of the family firm Pininfarina, which has designed sports cars for Ferrari, Maserati, Volvo and Fiat.

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:48 pm

Just saw this and posted to MV. He was riding a Vespa, of course.

http://www.autonews.com/article/2008080 ... 01336/1193

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:32 pm

Xena · Post by **Xena** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm

This is just very very sad