The 8 best and most beautiful Pininfarina-designed road cars ever... that aren't Ferraris

Battista "Pinin" Farina's company, Pininfarina, is most famous for designing almost every Ferrari road and concept car for several decades. But it wasn't just Ferrari that Pininfarina worked with. At home the great designer and eventually his son, worked with pretty much every manufacturer going, and then branched outside of Italy to work on some of the greatest car designs of all time.

Battista designed the majority of the company's cars before it was handed over to his son, around the same time as the company's name officially became Pininfarina. In that time cars were designed for Alfa Romeo, Cisitalia, Lancia and even MG and Peugeot.

Which of these famous designs is your favourite and which have we missed out? Let us know in the comments.

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:25 Cisitalia 202
03:01 Lancia Aurelia B24 Spider
04:33 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
05:34 MGB GT
06:48 Fiat 124 Spider
08:04 Peugeot 504
09:40 Lancia Gamma Coupe
10:28 Alfa Romeo 164

[adrianmonk]

The GOLDEN Era of Automotive Styling. The very Golden Era. BELLISSIMO ❤😊

[kantaverma]

Pininfarina only built beautiful cars so every car build by pininfarina is absolutely piece of art

[canary_in_a_coalmine]

Love my ‘79 Alfa Spider Veloce! Pininfarina is equivalent of timeless style..

[LowenKM]

Though wasn't the most reliable car have ever owned, my '72 Fiat 124 Spider convertible was certainly the best handling, and the thing cornered like it was on the proverbial 'rails'. Also had one of the best and simplest convertible designs, that never leaked and which you could easily put up and fold down from the driver's seat with just one hand.

[allwinds]

I was not surprised to see the Pininfarina logo on the softdrink machine at my grocery store.

[bobgross]

Peugeot 505 was a great looking design. The 1956-60 Alfa Giulietta 750 SWB Spider was an even more beautiful design than the later 101. I was fortunate enough to own both of these right from the factory.

[simonhodgetts]

Modern car makers should take note, and learn many lessons from the great Italian design houses on how to make elegant, even beautiful cars. Pininfarina is top of that tree. The only modern car I’ve seen that holds a candle to the great work that the likes of Pininfarina, Bertone, Ghia and ItalDesign produced back in the day is the Gordon Murray T50. Sad to think that BMW’s design language, which has only recently been abandoned, was largely devised by an Italian designer - the great Giovanni Michelotti - looking at modern BMWs and the like, it’s hard to believe that Italian car design ever existed. My personal favourite Pinin car design is the Cisitalia 202 - still a truly beautiful example of automotive art.

[petebromel]

All beautiful designs! Thanks! I’m so glad the Peugeot 504’s were mentioned, too. Miss my 504 sedan and station wagon very much.

[patricknataf]

Un génie incomparable des lignes d'architecture qui nous fait tant plaisir.

[studiocalder]

Chi come Pininfarina?
Che perfezione di proporzioni.
Con questo video ho scoperto che è opera di Pininfarina anche una delle mie preferite coupé inglesi, la MG B!
Mi cospargo di cenere

[fmac]

The 504 is the quintessential Buenos Aires taxi, at least it was when I went there.

There was an Argentine Pick-up version exported to Brazil in the 90s.

[Brommear]

You badly missed out on the Lancia Flaminia coupe. Pinin said that that was the car he'd be driving in heaven!

[fontheking]

The stunningly beautiful Peugeot 406 Coupe deserves a big vote, as does the equally beautiful Alfa Romeo 156 GTA

[rafibalouzian]

2005 Maserati Quattroporte and 2007 Granturismo before updates are the ultimate pure modern classics and the last before the passing of Sergio Pininfarina. Perfect proportions and clean uncluttered timeless shape.

[harveysmith]

One of my favourite cars that bears the Pininfarini name was actual designed originally by Sir William Lyons.
The Jaguar XJ6 saloon was always a handsome car, be it in Series I or Series II form. Now bring in Pininfarini to just give it a slight makeover.

In many peoples opinion the result was one of the best looking four door saloons ever made. The XJ6 Series III.

It is a very interesting car because the changes were so subtle, it shows the genius of Pininfarini. Go look at some pictures of a Series II and then compare them to a Series III.

[branislavtrninic]

Thank you for this beautiful video and great narration

[johntechwriter]

An amusing and aesthetically spot-on overview of the legendary designer's best work.

[ZZZWorks]

124 Spider cheers... what a surprise. Sergio Pininfarina liked it.

[Reid-Rob]

The Lancia Monte Carlo, my Dad had a red 1981 model with the updated rims.

[herculanoguimaraes]

for fiat in my opinion the fiat dino v6 is the most elegant car fiat has ever produced