Cars

How might Italian automotive history have looked without Marcello Gandini? The master of geometric car design, considered alongside Giorgetto Giugiaro and Leonardo Fioravanti as the most important Italian designers of the 20th Century, counted the breathtaking Lamborghini Miura among his first works. And his subsequent Lamborghini Countach was only outshone by the outlandish wedge-shaped concept cars such as the Lancia Stratos Zero and the Alfa Romeo Carabo. Even more pedestrian cars including the original BMW 5 Series and the Innocenti Mini were designed by Gandini. 

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“Lawrence of Arabia would have stormed in the Bell Aurens Longnose towards Akaba, and General Montgomery would have roared across the sand dunes of North Africa in pursuit of Rommel.” The description of the Frankenstein off-roader by its creators, German Land Rover enthusiasts Thomas Bell and Holger Kalvelage, couldn’t be more fitting. In today’s world, however, the Longnose perhaps appeals more to Arab playboys or off-roading enthusiasts looking to steal the show at the Tyre Kicker Club.