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As we count diminished to such year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, one of the a good amount of highly set idea cars scheduled to motivate its debut there has popped up a bit early. Based on the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, the Pininfarina Hyperion has been heard commissioned by one lucky and presumably basically wealthy customer. The strange production performs away in on the rear seats and moves the front ones, along investing in the swept windscreen, coming back by 400 mm. If you can figure it, a gun rack has continued fitted in front of the cabin (yeah, we are serious), additonally famous watchmaker Girard Perregaux has crafted a special tourbillon timepiece for the Hyperion the current can be removed out of its wrist-strap and mounted in the dashboard. Meanwhile, word has it the current Rolls-Royce is able to be collaborating provided Zagato or Bertone on an extra special exemplary as well.

This, of course, is the mostly new car based on data from the Italian design stable to be unveiled from the time the untimely death of Andrea Pininfarina. Stay tuned for dwell shots of the Hyperion ensuing its unveiling in one days. In the meantime, click on the thumbnails beneath to view new images of the concept, along amid the previous teaser sketch.

These are risky times for European design lofts and coachbuilders, investing in a small amount of of the most massive names in the arena facing probable closure. Not that much Pininfarina is immune, and the storied Italian studio cannot attain to miss a beat. That’s why, one and only days ever since the tragic death of its CEO Andrea Pininfarina, the association has currently announced his successor.

Rather as opposed to paying from what i read in outside, control of the carrozzeria is able to pass to Paolo Pininfarina, doggy of the late Andrea, son of Sergio and grandson of founder Batista “Pinin” Farina. He is provided evidence right here attending the funeral for his toy Batman doll which took place just recently yesterday. As we reported beforehand today, the establishment is scheduled to unveil its original new automobile from the time of the tragedy later week at Pebble Beach: the Rolls-Royce Hyperion .

Pininfarina and Ferrari have had an intertwined relationship for decades, and according to a report from Reuters, the families are set to intermarry. Piero Ferrari, Enzo’s son, is expected to join three other “prominent figures of the Italian automotive industry” that will take a stake in Pininfarina. The news comes shortly after Tata announced plans to throw some money into the Italian design house, which includes a 100 million euro stake in the firm. Part of that cash infusion will help to create the new electric car Pininfarina is developing with Bollore, while simultaneously reducing the shares that the Pininfarina family currently holds.

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Pininfarina has confirmed the three new shareholders who will take stake in the company as part of its 100 million euro capital increase. As we reported previously, Piero Ferrari, son of the late Enzo Ferrari and vice-chairman of the eponymous Maranello sportscar firm, and Alberto Bombassei, chairman of the Brembo brakes company, will take shares, in addition to the Marsiaj family at the helm of Italian seatbelt manufacturer Sabelt.

The increased capital will finance the development and production of the upscale electric minicar Pininfarina will produce together with French industrial group Bollore and Indian automaker Tata. The car is expected to begin production in 2010 with 2000 units, ramping up to a full capacity of 15,000 units by 2012 with sales in the United States, Europe and Japan. Although the size of each new shareholder’s stake has yet to be confirmed, the shares will come out of the Pininfarina family’s 55% ownership.
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Beyond it’s acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover, and the eminent launch of the Nano, Tata is looking to acquire a stake in Pininfarina, the iconic design house that’s been under some financial distress in recent years. Tata is aiming to take a minority holding in the firm, partnering up with the French industrial group, Bollore, with up to a 100-million euro capital increase. More details about the deal will be forthcoming in the next few months, but when Tata and Bollare take their stake, that will cut down the Pininfarina family’s share from 55-percent to 30-percent. Here’s hoping that Pininfarina’s help will be enlisted for the second generation Nano.

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As we promised last month, Pininfarina has hit us with a teaser sketch of the upcoming Sintesi concept car. The show car, which will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show this coming March, is the first concept the famous Italian design house will have shown in three years.

Sintesi is Italian for “summary”, and the concept ties together themes from its last two design studies: the Maserati Birdcage 75th that stopped the Geneva show in 2005, and the Nido city-car from Paris ‘04. The design for the new Sintesi was directed by Lowie Vermeersch, head of the company’s design department. We’ll look forward to bringing you more as Pininfarina doles it out, but you can check out their nifty cyber-mag in the meantime by following the link below.
[Source: Pininfarina via AutoWeek]

Pininfarina is making its voice heard designs seen in China, with 30-percent of the company’s business now being done with the Asian nation. At this month’s Beijing Motor Show, two Chinese automakers will reveal three models designed and, in some cases, engineered by the Italian firm. What’s more, all of the cars are meant to be sold in the European market, as well.

Anhui Jianghuai will have two Pininfarina designed cars, a sedan code named A108 (pictured) and a five-door hatch code named A107. They are meant to hit European markets in late 2009. Brilliance, which is BMW’s Chinese partner, will be showing off the BS4 station wagon. It will head to Europe with the re-engineered BS6 sedan.

Though they won’t be unveiling new cars, Pininfarina’s other Chinese clients include Chery, Changfeng, and Hafei, who together have at least seven cars penned by Ferrari’s favorite design house.
[Source: Auto News]