Marcello Gandini

Marcello Gandini (26 August 1938 – 13 March 2024) was an Italian car designer widely known for his work with the Italian car design house Bertone, where his work included designing the Alfa Romeo Carabo and Montreal, Lancia Stratos Zero, Maserati Khamsin, Ferrari GT4, Fiat X1/9, and multiple Lamborghinis, including the Miura, Countach, Espada, and Urraco production cars, as well as the Marzal and Bravo concept cars.

Car Design News awarded Gandini the magazine's first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, and said his stature within the industry could not be overstated. Flavio Manzoni, chief design officer at Ferrari, said Gandini was "probably the greatest car designer ever". His father was a former orchestral conductor and composer and wanted his son to become a pianist. Gandini, however, developed an early and intense interest in cars and mechanical engineering. thumb Gandini standing behind the Autobianchi A112 Runabout conceptGandini also designed practical mass-production cars, including sub-compacts, such as the Innocenti Mini and the first generation Volkswagen Polo, as well as midsize family cars, such as the first-generation BMW 5 Series and Citroën BX. He later worked with Maserati, Nissan, Toyota, and Subaru, and returned to Lamborghini to work on the Diablo in the 1990s.

Gandini died on 13 March 2024, at the age of 85.

Designs Car designs that Gandini was involved in include:

Alfa Romeo Montreal concept and production version Alfa Romeo 33 Carabo Alfa Romeo Navajo Audi 50 Autobianchi A112 Autobianchi A112 Runabout BMW 2800 Spicup (final design) BMW 2200 TI Garmisch BMW 5 Series (E12) (with Paul Bracq) Bugatti EB 110 (prototypes) Citroën BX Citroën GS Camargue (with Marc Deschamps) Cizeta-Moroder V16T De Tomaso Biguà (Qvale Mangusta) De Tomaso Pantera SI De Tomaso Pantera 2000 (aka Prossima Generazione) Dino/Ferrari 308 GT4 Ferrari Rainbow Fiat 125 Executive (1967) Fiat 127 Village (1974) Fiat 128 Coupé (1969) Fiat 132 Fiat Dino Coupé (final design) Fiat X1/9 Fiat Visitors Bus (1975) Innocenti Mini Iso Lele Iso Grifo 90 Iso Grifo 96 Jaguar FT Coupé (1966, Bertone) Jaguar Pirana Jaguar Ascot (1977) Lamborghini Bravo Lamborghini Countach Maserati Khamsin Maserati Ghibli II Maserati Quattroporte II (1974–1978) & IV (1994–2001) Maserati Shamal Maserati Chubasco 1st and 2nd Maserati Biturbo facelifts Nissan AP-X NSU Trapeze Perodua Kancil (facelift) Porsche 911 Roadster by Bertone (1966) Reliant FW11 Renault 5 Turbo (with Marc Deschamps; interiors) Renault 5 Supercinq Renault Magnum Stola S81 Stratos Stola S86 Diamante TaMo Racemo (Moflex chassis technology only) Volkswagen Polo Mk1 Volvo Tundra

Gallery of car designs