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Pininfarina Bollore electric-car on track for 2011

Posted: Oct 12, 2009

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

Pininfarina’s CEO told Italian newspaper, Sunday’s Il Sole 24 Ore, that its electric-vehicle joint venture with French financier Vincent Bollore is still on track.
CEO Silvio Pietro Angori told the newspaper that the group has received more than 6,000 orders for the Bluecar, which will arrive on the market in 2011.
“The joint venture is to develop and produce [...]

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Pininfarina family to sell 50.7% stake in coachbuilder

Posted: Aug 10, 2009

Filed under: Ferrari, Fiat, Industry News, Tata Motors

According to company sources, family owners of coachbuilder Pininfarina have hired Italy’s Banca Leonardo to sell their majority stake in the company. Pincar, the Pininfarina family company, will sell its 50.7 percent stake in the company as a part of a debt agreement made with banks at the end of 2008.
“It is a commitment Pincar made with the [...]

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Pininfarina Rolls-Royce Hyperion on sale for $6 million

Posted: Apr 06, 2009

Filed under: Rolls Royce

The one-off Pininfarina Rolls-Royce Hyperion that was built for Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe owner Ronald Hall is up for sale. We’re guessing Hall wasn’t too satisfied with his Pininfarina creation or thought he could rake in a couple of million for his one-off Drophead Coupe during the economic downturn.
The Pininfarina Rolls-Royce Hyperion has a body made of [...]

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Pininfarina to cease contract manufacturing, will concentrate exclusively on electric-cars

Posted: Dec 31, 2008

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

After being approved for a financial rescue that saved it from the equivalent of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Italian firm Pininfarina has announced that it will cease contract manufacturing when current production ends. Pininfarina said that it will concentrate exclusively on building electric-cars.
In a press release, Pininfarina said that it will not look to get [...]

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Pininfarina B0 shows up in Paris with 150 miles on a full charge

Posted: Oct 02, 2008

Filed under: Auto Shows, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

One of the sleepers that we were really excited to see at the 2008 Paris Motor Show was the Pininfarina and Bolloré electric car. Well, we now have all the details and the images on what is known as the Pininfarina B0 electric car – and no this is not a concept. The Pininfarina B0 [...]

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Pininfarina to show 125 mile range electric-car concept in Paris

Posted: Sep 23, 2008

Filed under: Auto Shows, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

Pininfarina will show a plug-in electric-vehicle concept at the 2008 Paris Motor Show next month. Don’t expect any crazy/aggressive Sintesi style, a fuel-cell concept car shown at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year.
The plug-in electric concept will be a “close-to-production” version of the Blue Car (pictured above) that Pininfarina has been working on with [...]

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Pininfarina’s Blue Car electric-vehicle project moving forward

Posted: Sep 03, 2008

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

The Blue Car, an electric-car program that Pininfarina has been working on with French firm Bolloré, is one of the most anticipated projects from Italian design firm. Rumors had started that after the death of Pininfarina CEO Andrea Pininfarina, chances of a production version of the Blue Car had come to an end.
However, Reuters, who recently spoke with an executive of Bolloré, [...]

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Video: Interview with the owner of Pininfarina’s Rolls-Royce Hyperion

Posted: Aug 22, 2008

Filed under: Rolls Royce

We saw the Pininfarina Rolls-Royce Hyperion last weekend at the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach. The one-off custom built car was made for Roland Hall and when we heard he asked Pininfarina to take his Phantom Drophead Coupe and make it into something that resembles the 1930s – we expected him to be a very [...]

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Pininfarina Rolls-Royce Hyperion Revealed

Posted: Aug 17, 2008

Filed under: Rolls Royce

Pininfarina has taken the wraps off the Hyperion – a one-off custom-built car based on the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe at the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach. Roland Hall, the owner of the Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe asked Pininfarina to build him a car that would resemble the cars of the 1930s.
The Pininfarina Rolls-Royce Hyperion give [...]

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Sneak Peek: Pininfarina Hyperion shows up before Pebble Beach

Posted: Aug 12, 2008

Filed under: Rolls Royce

Back in June, Pininfarina released a teaser image of its latest work called the Pininfarina Hyperion. And now – just days before its official debut at the Pebble Beach Concours, a side-view image of the car has popped up online.
What we know so far that this is a one-off model built for some ultra-rich man. Based [...]