The legacy of the man behind design icons like the Lamborghini Miura and Countach and Alfa Romeo Montreal.
has died, aged 85. If there were a Mount Rushmore of car design, Gandini for certain would be carved into it. You're reading this very sentence because of the power of his designs. Hand on heart, I can state that if it wasn't for his eternal masterpiece, the, I wouldn't be writing this; I'd have another career. That single scissor-doored spaceship ignited in me an unquenchable passion for cars that still burns strong. I grew up liking, even already loving cars to some degree.
Bit of a funny backstory with the Miura's design history: Gandini had applied to work at Bertone in 1963, but the company's senior designer Giorgetto Giugiaro was against the idea. Giugiaro left Bertone in 1965 and Gandini finally got the nod. Gandini designed the Miura in just three months, and controversy has followed ever since. After Geneva, a French journalist named Jean Bernadet wrote in L'Equipe that it was in fact Gandini's predecessor Giugiaro who designed the Miura.
That said, and especially as his success grew, Marcello Gandini could be notoriously difficult to work with. Two examples that stick out. The first took place at Lee Iacocco's villa in Tuscany where Gandini presented a full-scale model of what was to be the Countach's replacement,. It wasn't very good. I'm able to say so because a friend who was there showed me a photo of Lido side-eyeing the thing.
I mention the above just to add a little color to the man. He lived to be 85-years-old and no one hits homeruns every time all the time. He, like you and me, was human. But he was an exceptional car designer. The greatest ever? I could make that argument. I strongly feel that not only is the Lamborghini Countach his greatest accomplishment, but if you disagree, I think you're weird or up to something.
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