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Is Pininfarina's future in doubt after CEO's death?

by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Aug 8th, 2008 at 7:33PM

Click above for hi-res gallery of the Pininfarina Sintesi ConceptEven prior to Pininfarina CEO Andrea Pininfarina's untimely death while out riding his scooter, the market for coachbuilt automobiles was shrinking fast. To wit, the Italian car design firm had recently just managed to sign an agreement with its creditors to reschedule the company's debt and is now asking for an extra one-hundred-million Euros from shareholders for future product development. Pininfarina is also planning on designing and building its own electric car using batteries and technology supplied by a French company... Read More

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