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Giorgetto Giugiaro - Born August 7, 1938 Italian Automobile Designer

"I have designed cars for every major company but Honda, and one day I will do that,"


-August 2010 issue of Automobile Magazine
-Wikipedia

Named Car Designer of the Century in 1999, Inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002

In Addition to cars, Giugiaro also Designed Camera bodies for Nikon, Computer prototypes for Apple.

Giugiaro Designed a huge number of mass production cars, including popular models own by brands such as: Alfa Romeo, BMW, Ferrari, Ford, Lamborghini, Maserati. He was also responsible for numerous concept cars, such as Bugati EB218, Maserati Buran, Formula Hammer and the 1994 Firepoint.

In 1955 Giugiaro was hired at Fiat Special Vehicles styling center.
1959 Frustrated, he presents some drawings to Nuccio Bertone who hired him.

Giugiaro's first car was the Alfa Romeo 2000 in 1959

His second serious production model is the BMW  3200 CS

1968-71 Started his own company Italdesign.

1971 VW contracts Italdesign for several projects, and the final product is Golf

1973-1976 De Tomaso Mangusta

Ford Mustang

Alfa Romeo

Giugiaro most important milestone was when he launches is sharp-edged origami-like "folded paper" period in the 1970s it was a concept that was later adopted by most car manufacture around the world