Pininfarina CEO dies in accident

BY COLLEEN BARRY Milan Aug. 7: Andrea Pininfarina, the chief executive of the Italian car design firm founded by his grandfather that counts Ferraris and Alfa Romeos among its creations, died on Thursday in a road accident near the northern Italian city of Turin. Pininfarina was driving a scooter along a provincial highway when he struck a car whose driver failed to stop at an intersection, Luigi Semenzato, the police chief in the town of Trofarello south of Turin, told Sky Tg24 television news. The driver "didn’t see the Vespa coming," Mr Semenzato told Sky. Pininfarina, 51, was the third generation to run Pininfarina SpA, founded in 1930 by his grandfather Battista "Pinin" Farina, who combined his nickname and last name to create the company’s name and new family name. Pininfarina SpA has designed cars for Fiat, Alfa Romeo,... [read full story]