Did Marcello Gandini REALLY Design The Miura? (Industry Icons)
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2020
- Marcello Gandini is credited with what some consider the most beautiful car ever made; the Lamborghini Miura. The mid-engine supercar put the company into the minds of enthusiasts and thrust the young designer into the spotlight. It has defined his legacy in a way. But he’s done more than the Miura. Much more. He’s been in the industry for 55 years and counting, and in that time he’s designed a few of the most iconic cars in history and spearheaded the aesthetic of an entire generation. Welcome to episode 4 of Industry Icons.
CHAPTERS
00:00: Intro
00:43: Formative Years
02:46: Porsche 911 Roadster
05:07: Lamborghini Miura
14:15: Lamborghini Marzal
15:39: Alfa Romeo Montreal
16:25: Alfa Romeo Carabo
18:02: Autobianchi Runabout
19:43: Lancia Stratos HF Zero
22:48: Lamborghini Countach
24:08: Lamborghini Urraco/Bravo
25:29: Ferrari 308 GT4/Rainbow
26:04: Fiat Visitors Bus
26:32: Alfa Romeo Navajo
26:50: Lancia Sibilo
27:35: Citroen BX
29:34: Later Career
Marcello Gandini was born in Turn on August 26, 1938, mere weeks before Giorgetto Giugiaro and a few months after Leonardo Fioravanti. The son of an orchestral conductor, gandini was nudged to follow in his father's footsteps. He began learning to play the piano at the age of 4, but he soon became disenchanted with that life and turned his attention elsewhere.
His father bought him an Erector set when he was a child. They allowed him to build scale models of cars, trucks, and airplanes. He was captivated. Not just by the aesthetics, but also by the structure and mechanics of objects.
He soon had his mind made up: he wanted to be a car designer. There weren't any schools nearby that could provide formal training in this line of work, so he went freelance, taking on a number of odd jobs to support himself. It wouldn’t be until 1959 that he would really dip his toes into transportation design for the first time.
A well off friend of his owned a Fiat OSCA 1500S that he raced often. In an effort to keep pace with the competition, He asked Gandini to perform a few modifications to the engine. Partway through the process, the friend suggested that he design a new, more aerodynamic body for the car as well.
Lamborghini had made a bit of headway in the automotive world with the 350GT. The touring coupe gave Ferrari some healthy competition, but engineer Gian Paolo Dallara wanted to make something more extreme. Prior to coming to Lamborghini, Dallara worked for Ferrari and Maserati, brands with very prominent racing programs. He vocalized his desire to build a racing car. Ferruccio Lamborghini wasn’t quite the racing fanatic that Enzo Ferrari was. He was initially opposed to the idea. He thought it would be too expensive to produce and take attention away from their main focus. Still, he allowed Dallara and fellow engineers Paolo Stanzani and Bob Wallace to work on a prototype chassis in their spare time
The car would use the same Bizzarrini-designed V12 from the 350GT, but it would be mounted transversely behind the seats. It brought the weight inward and freed up enough space for a 5 foot cargo area at the rear of the car. They spent six months working on the engineering drawings and a prototype was completed soon after. Lamborghini originally went to Carrozzeria Touring to skin the car. They had worked together on the 350GT, so they hoped that this collaboration would produce equally pleasing results. Touring produced 2 asymmetrical scale models, with each side showing a different design, making for 4 proposals in total. None of them impressed Ferrucio. The company decided to put the bare chassis on display at Turin in 1965.
At any rate, the Lamborghini Miura P400 made a splash at the Geneva motor show. We’ve already touched on the retractable headlights. They’re flush with the body to reduce drag and tilt up slightly when activated. The lights themselves are actually sourced from the Fiat 850 spider. At the top and bottom of the headlight enclosure are thin black forks. Because of the way they curl up onto the body slightly and how light interacts with them, many enthusiasts refer to them as eyebrows. These were removed with the introduction of the SV in 1971.
There are very minimal bumpers on the nose and boot of the car, and they’re de-emphasized because they’re integrated into the grilles. They stick out ever so slightly on the side view, but they’re still within the rhythm of the design. One thing you won’t see on the body is a door handle. They’re the very bottom slat in the intake behind the door. - Авто та транспорт
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RIP legend. 🥺
26 August 1938 - 13 March 2024
Love the Lamborghini Miura.
Regarding the Miura, the idea that Gandini must have somehow copied Giugiaro's ideas because there was nothing else around for inspiration is nonsense. Plenty of other preceding ideas ideas around, just look at the racing cars of the early 60's, the Ferrari 250LM, Lola T70, etc. All designers are influenced from some preceding work of others to one degree or another, no one works from a vacuum.
Amazing documentary work!
Outstanding! Thanks…
Love the cars he designed loved the Lamborghini Mira he done and awesome job love the documentary about him
Interesting overview, appreciate the work that went into this, with all the image material. Voiceover could be more clearly spoken, hard to follow here and there.
no doubt he is
Nice, interesting. But you read way to fast making it hard to understand some words. Is it really that hard to pronounce italian names right?
Frankly the problem is also pronouncing english words.
@@AZ-vg6li Guess it wasn't just me. I have hard time understanding what he's saying and I wish I could.
This is frustrating as the voice over is horrible. Can the audio be run done ? It's important
Great video material.Speaker needs to enunciate properly,60% is lost sounds like mumbling!real shame…another point regarding the Miura design…people do not seem to mention anything about the real design influence …that was…..the Ford GT40…seen in racing form 2 years earlier,about the time the Miura basic design theme was done.Do not underestimate the influence the GT40 had on both young Giugiaro and Gandini.
For sure Gandini took a glance 😒at the beautiful american racing car.It's not an innuendo at any rate,yet the legendary Miura actually was a GT40 look- alike.The similarity has obviously been successfully overshadowed...To be fair,here in Italy I recall the uncanny resemblance between those two cars to be remarked on an italian car magazine,many years ago.
The speaker has an ugly accent... wtf english is this man!? 🤣🤣🤣 Great video material, indeed!
Nice video……can it be translated into English ?
I think this dispute will go on forever. The Muira is absolutely gorgeous. BUT, I have a couple observations. First, a mid-engine layout provides the designer with much more freedom to make a good looking car because the engine is located more towards the center and doesn't require elongated proportions. Second, car designers working together are always looking at the others guys designs for 'inspiration'. Something might be seen and one could run with it. It's just the nature of that environment. Third, any successfull design runs the risk of having several creators because this is a world of huge egos and nobody's going to acquiesce and input they thought is theirs. Fourth, there's always going to be other illustrations and sketches hanging around that can be inspiration for the next thing. So, who really designed it?
Look to the Giugiaro's Testudo and think about this. It was a design before Gandini arrives at Bertone and Giugiaro left they. I'm the most support of Gandini's work but in the world car design are a lot of colaborations and sinergys that count more than the personalism of one designer. Its true about the Testudo is similar to Miura only in style not in mechanical structure and architecture.
What collaboration you talk about since Giugiaro left from Bertone and after a period of time few months at least before Gandini arrive to acomodate and need to do a certain project.. Appreciated talented designers back then were much fewer than today, most of the time were too busy, do not have spare time for any collaborations after they were hired and was the factory policy they were usually a chef designer and one or 2 students / engineers assistants helpers working to reproduce the initial crayion sketch to a smaller scale sculpted clay models, that will be presented for acceptance & approval.. today a modern design center contain at least minimum 4 specialized designers that work independently just to elaborate new ideas based on factory next project need and another team to work in computers to perfect refine and modify in a slide show a 3D project of the initial ideas..
Of course Gandini designed the Miura. Giugiaro's design looks nothing like the Miura 9:43
What you see at 9:43 is a Miura and a Bizzarinni i really wonder why no mention about Alfa Romeo 33 stradale (to me that was absolutely beautiful)..
Different layouts as well : Giugiaro Testudo the prototype was a front engine GT (something similar to a corvette),
while Gandini was the first of all mid-engine, first true super-sport car & first beautiful super-sport car..
The original Miura design stylemes were conceived in 1965 by Federico Formenti (Touring Superleggera coach builder) with the 1:4 scale model named TIGRE shown to Ferruccio
You can find easily information about Tigre on the web
So...not Gandini.