Back at this year's Geneva Motor Show, Italian
coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera unveiled a Bentley Continental - based station wagon which is mostly known to luxury automakers as «shooting brake.»
Milanese
coachbuilder Carrozzeria Pavesi outfitted several armoured Quattroportes during the 1980s.
In 2008, at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, Milanese
coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera unveiled the Maserati Bellagio Fastback Touring, a 5 - door hatchback built on the basis of the fifth generation Quattroporte.
From 1954 to 1956 Italian
coachbuilder Carrozzeria Pinin Farina independently built and sold a 2 - door 2 +2 coupé based on 1100 TV mechanicals, in a small series of about 780 examples.
Superleggera, with is Italian for «super light» is a method for car coachwork construction developed by Felice Bianchi Anderloni of Italian
coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring.
The 2009 Maserati Touring Bellagio Fastback was created by
coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera, and is based on a Maserati Quattroporte sedan.
Just as the new Fiat 500 was inspired the original Fiat 500, one of Italy's oldest
coachbuilders Carrozzeria Castagna Milano has used a version of the original Fiat 500 favoured by the rich and famous, the Fiat 500 Jolly, to produce a modern version, the Fiat 500 Ischia.
Not exact matches
As was the case with many boutique sports cars at the time, Ferrari provided the chassis, engines, and transmissions while custom
coachbuilders like
Carrozzeria Touring, Ghia, Vignale, and Pinin Farina (then still two separate words) styled bodies to fit the chassis.
Michael Worthington - Williams recounts its eventful history /
Carrozzeria Riva — Alessandro Sannia tells the story of one of the less well known of the small Italian
coachbuilders that flourished post-WW2 / East Meets West — Delwyn Mallett visits a fascinating recent exhibition of post-war German competition cars from both sides of the Iron Curtain at Hamburg's Prototyp Museum / Back on the Road — The sole - surviving 1914 Wilton has been restored by the grandson of its manufacturer.
Alessandro Sannia tells the story of one of
Carrozzeria Riva — the less well known of the small Italian
coachbuilders that flourished post-WW2.
Contrary to previous assumptions that Aston Martin will name its next flagship sporting GT the Vanquish, the British marque has since confirmed that it will carry the DBS Superleggera nomenclature instead, harking back to the DB4 and DB5 Superleggera that donned the name of their Italian
coachbuilder,
Carrozzeria Superleggera.
The design is modern Zagato, which may not be to everyone's taste, though rarely have the
carrozzeria's concepts sought to be flashy, trendy, easily interpreted or easily confused with other
coachbuilders» works.
Aside from the factory produced Berlina, a variety of the great Italian
coachbuilders lent their hand to the Flaminia; namely Pininfarina,
Carrozzeria Touring and Zagato.