Automotive News Europe-New Ferrari Pic?

Not a new model but a one-off special by and for Giugiaro.
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TURIN -- It is quite common for a high-ranking businessman to celebrate a career milestone with the purchase of an exotic car, often a Ferrari.

But to celebrate 50 years of working in the automotive industry, Giorgetto Giugiaro, 67, went a little further. He designed his own Ferrari.

The car, which debuts on Tuesday at the Tokyo auto show, is called the GG50.

Giugiaro's initials, GG, are followed by the digit 50, reflecting that he began in car design in September 1955 at Fiat.

Since then, Giugiaro has penned more than 150 production cars and about 100 concept cars. That makes him the most prolific car designer in automotive history.

The GG50 is a special project in another sense. For the first time, Giugiaro is the supplier and the customer of the same project.

Although the GG50 is a personal car, it is not a futuristic concept, but a practical project, which could go into production as it is.




The main differences between the GG50 (top), and the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti (above) are the GG50's rear roofline, nose and sides. Projector-beam front lights change the look of the GG50 from the 612 Scaglietti.
It only took 13 months to become a reality. In September 2004 at the Paris auto show, Giorgetto Giugiaro first discussed his fantasy with Piero Ferrari, vice chairman of the company founded by Piero's father, Enzo. Piero immediately approved the idea.

Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo chose the model for Giugiaro's exercise: the 612 Scaglietti four-seat coupe.

Montezemolo gave him only two restrictions: The car had to fit the Ferrari brand image and it had to be shorter than the 612 Scaglietti.

Giugiaro started work in February 2005. He sketched the 1/10 scale design entirely by hand -- something he has been doing his entire career.

By April, after assessing the look of the car's surface in virtual reality, a full-sized plaster styling model was constructed.

The creation of a driveable proto-type began in early June and was completed in early October, just in time to air-freight the GG50 to Tokyo for the show.

 

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Anyone have a closer pic? It looks good from what I can see.