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The jury at the
20th International Car Festival has awarded Sergio
Pininfarina the "Palme d’Or", which will be presented
tonight at the Hotel Ritz in Paris during the closing
ceremony of the event.
The following
motivation was given for the award: "For this twentieth
edition of the Festival the jury wished to pay tribute to a
particularly outstanding personality active over the past
two decades: without a doubt Sergio Pininfarina is an apt
choice. His prestigious name has been associated with some
of the most attractive contemporary bodywork designs, but
also with several magnificent commercial successes."
Sergio
Pininfarina graduated in mechanical engineering from the
Polytechnic of Torino in 1950, he began his career in the
family firm, “Carrozzeria Pinin Farina”; in 1960, he
undertook the responsibility of General Manager of the firm;
in 1961 he became also Managing Director and in 1966, at his
father’s death, he took over the Chairmanship of the Company
In 1961, the
President of the Italian Republic, Giovanni Gronchi, changed
by decree the name Farina in Pininfarina. From 1974 to 1977
he has been professor of “Car Body Design” at the
Polytechnic of Torino.
During his more
than fifty years of work, the Pininfarina Group has enjoyed
a constant increase in technical and production development.
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