Mesarti Tucker! Meet George Jetson and His Friend Elroy..........It is called the Birdcage.Turin, June 23 2005. The Maserati Birdcage 75th, the prototype which commemorates the 75th anniversary of Pininfarina, is to take part in the Supercar Run to be held during the Goodwood Festival of Speed scheduled for June 24 to 26.
Based on Maserati tradition and cutting edge mechanical technology, and created in collaboration with Motorola, the Maserati Birdcage 75th won the “Best Concept” award in the Editors’ Choice Awards at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show, where it made its debut, and made it onto the list of the 10 “coolest concept cars” of 2005 drawn up by Forbes.
Other cars taking part in the Goodwood Festival include the Alfa Romeo Brera, a 2+2 coupé developed in collaboration with Italdesign-Giugiaro and set to be produced by Pininfarina from the second half of 2005.
Pininfarina has a great tradition in the creative, technical and industrial fields, having been a partner in long-standing collaboration agreements, first and foremost its successful partnerships with Ferrari and Peugeot, dating back 50 years. And when Pininfarina began working with younger manufacturers such as the Japanese, it established a stable relationship with Honda that has now been in existence over 25 years. The will and ability to create lasting agreements does not mean that the company has lost interest in the new evolutionary trends in the car, or in an international approach to the market. In the 1950s the company founder Pinin Farina was the testimonial for the launch of the Nash-Healey in the United States, and today Pininfarina designs and develops cars for the Chinese market, with the aim to establish another long-term collaboration agreement. However there are a number of manufacturers with whom Pininfarina has never worked, and the page of the cars that might have been is still blank.
The concentration of car brands and car makers that began several years ago has radically changed the panorama of the car market, extending the range of opportunities for collaboration at different levels for an independent design house like Pininfarina.
In particular, Peugeot is no longer just a car maker, but an independent manufacturer, PSA, with two distinct brands: Peugeot on one side, with historical and strategic links with Pininfarina, and Citroën on the other, a name that evokes legendary cars that made their mark for innovative technical and styling content: today the dream of realising a Citroën has come true with the OSÉE, a very particular project, through which Pininfarina aimed to demonstrate its strategic interest in being considered as a potential all-round partner by PSA, for all its product ranges, at every possible level of collaboration: design, engineering and the production of niche models.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, Maserati Birdcage 75th
Goodwood Festival of Speed
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