12/28/2023 0 Comments 4 door ferrari models![]() Bentley has the Bentayga, Lamborghini reengineered an Audi Q8 and created the Urus, and Rolls Royce has the opulent Cullinan. We’re talking about the traditional ultraluxury automotive brands catering to the very affluent among us (which, again, is statistically not your neighbors). ![]() ![]() Even if the Pinin isn’t the most useable of cars on the road, it’s a great honour to find myself inside the four-seater Ferrari never made – but should have done.Everyone who’s anyone has an SUV these days, and we’re not talking about your neighbors. …but riding in it today, especially through the streets of Maranello, past the factory and on to the Cavallino restaurant – it’s pure magic. “The Pinin was coherent with Ferrari’s philosophy, but unfortunately it wasn’t the right time for such a car… The concept car itself was instead sold to Jacques Swaters. The result of squeezing a 512 BB engine under the bonnet is that you find yourself in a historically fascinating concept car that can hardly turn to the left, and in which you need to look out for every little stone on the road, as the power unit has been fitted so very, very low in the engine bay.”Īlthough Enzo Ferrari was deeply impressed by Pininfarina’s concept – so much that he seriously considered a production run of the four-door Ferrari – he eventually decided against adopting the radically different design direction. “The car is drivable, but it’s not that easy since it wasn’t originally designed around an engine, there’s very little room. When the engine was adapted to make it work, it created some problems as Dargegen discovered when he was invited to be a passenger on a short test drive. Since the Pinin was purely a show car, it wasn’t designed around an engine – although it contained a non-working, front-mounted, flat-12 engine when it was displayed at Turin. This Ferrari got there first: four seats, controls for the rear passengers, an incredible level of comfort, magnificent leather everywhere and some impressively innovative (for the period) technology. “You look around and start to realise that the modern high-end saloons – cars such as the Panamera, Rapide and new Lagonda – really aren’t the first of their breed. ![]() The shape is very late 70s or maybe early 80s, so it’s a style you’re going to love or hate – but either way, you can’t deny that it exudes a huge helping of elegance.”īut it was when Dargegen climbed inside the Pinin that he really started to appreciate the avant-garde nature of this luxury sports saloon. Thirty-five years later, photographer Rémi Dargegen’s first impressions are mixed: “The car appears strangely long when you see it from a distance, even though it’s only a little bit longer than a 365, 400 or 412. So the design studio created the ‘Ferrari Pinin’, on a Ferrari 412 chassis, in time for that year’s Turin motor show. Pininfarina’s 50 th anniversary, in 1980, seemed the perfect opportunity to develop a four-door Ferrari concept to tempt Enzo Ferrari into considering a step in this direction. ![]() Sergio Pininfarina longed to create a four-door Ferrari to rival the high-performance saloons of Maserati, Jaguar and Mercedes. ![]()
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