The Italian Legend Steering Car Design for Fiat-Chrysler
Businessweek - March 14, 2013
Abstract/Summary
When Lorenzo Ramaciotti retired as head of famed Italian design studio Pininfarina in 2005, the designer of some of the most iconic Ferraris was looking forward to spending time writing books about cars instead of drawing them.
Two years later Fiat Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne called, asking him to run the carmaker’s design center and inject more style into the tired hodgepodge of model lineups sold under the Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati brands.
Ramaciotti didn’t hesitate. “I was born a few hundred meters from Maserati’s headquarters in Modena, and I’ve always wanted to be part of that world,” he says. Ramaciotti originally planned to stay for less than two years. He’s still there after six.
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