Pininfarina releases images of Sintesi concept

February26

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Pininfarina — the go-to design house for Ferrari and others — has released an image of its concept set to bow at the Geneva Motor Show last month. Dubbed the Sintesi, the show car will not only be stylish but will also showcase some new active safety systems.

“This concept car is the synthesis of our values, of the love for our work and our passion for innovation, of beauty driven by functionality, of sportiness and elegance. However, Sintesi isn’t only the expression of Pininfarina design; it also embraces innovative technologies that allow us to explore new typologies of mobility, active safety and packaging solutions” said Lowie Vermeersch, the lead designer of the project.

One of the technologies the Sintesi concept will debut is a system Pininfarina calls Clancast. The Clancast system talks with other cars on the road to communicate traffic patterns, eliminating the need for traffic lights and other street signs.

From the sketches released earlier this year, we can also infer that the car will use a hydrogen fuel-cell and will have seating for four.

The show car was penned under Lowie Vermeersch — the company’s head of design — and is the first concept Pininfarina has shown in three years.

Check back for more images and details after the Sintesi’s official unveiling in March.

















 


34 Comments

  1. this should be interesting…cant wait…

    Comment by thezero, posted on December17 at 12:38 pm
  2. my heart is already pounding at the mention of pininfarina
    cant wait to see what they come up with

    Comment by LP640, posted on December17 at 12:42 pm
  3. yet another unrealistic pipe dream for myself

    Comment by hbcbob3, posted on December17 at 12:43 pm
  4. Hopefully it’s something revolutionary compared to the Enzo.

    Comment by Veda, posted on December17 at 1:10 pm
  5. That’s garish.

    Comment by jackjimturkey, posted on December17 at 1:30 pm
  6. Anything that starts with the word ‘Sin’ has to be hot.

    Comment by johnnycanuck, posted on December17 at 1:54 pm
  7. pininfarina, home of hot designs such as the chevy aveo and the suzuki forenza.

    Comment by Jordan, posted on December17 at 5:52 pm
  8. Beautiful, not Alfa but very close in sexiness.

    Comment by autonut, posted on December17 at 9:03 pm
  9. it looks really good from what i can see. cant wait to see the show pics.

    Comment by corvette, posted on January29 at 3:19 pm
  10. Tastefully futuristic as ever. But otherwise, so what ?

    Comment by Blakkarr, posted on January29 at 3:24 pm
  11. It looks like a futuristic version of the early NSX concept, the HSC

    Comment by lyndon_h, posted on January29 at 4:17 pm
  12. looks exactly like the maserati birdcage 75th concept. pininfarina is just using their old designs again.

    Comment by Jordan, posted on January29 at 4:40 pm
  13. That thing looks like that Lamborghini Portofino Concept from back when Chrysler owned Lamborghini…..

    Comment by MY Si, posted on January29 at 5:59 pm
  14. To me, Pininfarina stands for grace, excellence all around. Subtle style. This is too “hardcore” for them. They need more elegance, less “four door going to the front lines in Iraq,” more “I’m better than you, and no, I don’t have to try.”

    I wonder if this is another one of Jason’s pieces. Looks a lot like his style. Early sketches of the P 4/5 were equally eccentric. ;)

    Comment by cntchds, posted on January29 at 6:16 pm
  15. EDIT: Read through the whole article, and found that it isn’t penned by Jason Castriota.

    Comment by cntchds, posted on January29 at 6:19 pm
  16. “pininfarina, home of hot designs such as the chevy aveo and the suzuki forenza.”

    Don’t forget the Ssangyong Rexton…

    Comment by Veda, posted on January30 at 1:28 am
  17. This looks really interesting. I’d love to see the final concept.

    Comment by hanlond, posted on January30 at 2:12 pm
  18. The front end looks like a carp (fish) with its mouth open.

    Comment by lyndon_h, posted on January30 at 3:33 pm
  19. Lame.

    Comment by GIUGIK1, posted on February12 at 4:40 pm
  20. Looky here Mr. Fancitalianman, here in America we can’t have cars that swallow strollers whole. We like our babies.

    Comment by meanpants555, posted on February12 at 5:13 pm
  21. Truthfully, the above car has a waist, which is sexy.

    Comment by meanpants555, posted on February12 at 5:14 pm
  22. ^ That comment made my day.

    Comment by cntchds, posted on February12 at 11:30 pm
  23. So much for the only-GM-cars-are-slaves-to-the-wind-tunnel claim.

    Comment by C6Racer, posted on February19 at 3:49 pm
  24. looks almost station-wagonish - well….. for the future

    Comment by jumpoffit, posted on February26 at 4:09 pm
  25. And i re-iterate.
    That thing looks like that Lamborghini Portofino Concept from back when Chrysler owned Lamborghini…..

    Comment by MY Si, posted on February26 at 4:33 pm
  26. Very 70’s futurish. Looks like something Bertone would have made back in the day. I like it.

    Comment by global_lightning, posted on February26 at 4:34 pm
  27. So much bias in the favor of pininfarina, which I can understand.

    They’ve designed the majority of the best looking vehicles on the roads today and in the past, and I would certainly love to work for them, or own their products.

    But this concept is pretty damned ugly.
    Reminds me a little of the Honda Advanced Sports Car Concept or whatever the hell it was called. The NSX design that had to be redrawn…

    Comment by G, posted on February26 at 5:12 pm
  28. I don’t like the front as much as I did in the beginning, and neither does it look as sleek as it did in the sketches.

    I’m curious how much interior space this new layout will provide though. It seems expensive, very easy to break, heavier, and the most dissapointing, there won’t be such a thing as a “garage” mechanic any more, and probably not just a normal garage anymore either.

    Comment by jayjc08, posted on February26 at 5:17 pm
  29. So, um, what the HELL would this be for IF it were built? It’s pretty much a sedan shaped like a wagon because it doesn’t look like you could fit much more into the trunk area than a standard sedan. Not sure if I like or or not yet.

    Comment by C6Racer, posted on February26 at 6:42 pm
  30. How the hell do you clean the inside of the window at the outer edge of the dash toward the hood?

    Comment by F451, posted on February26 at 8:46 pm
  31. F451, it’s ain’t easy, but whoever gonna own it will not do it either. Servants will manage.

    Comment by autonut, posted on February26 at 9:55 pm
  32. This layout makes alot of sense. Something MO would’nt understand but Audi probably would!

    Comment by Heart64, posted on February27 at 2:11 am
  33. These sketches are nice, but is this going to see production? I thought pininfarina was a design house. Who’s going to build it?

    Comment by DeansterTJ, posted on February27 at 9:57 am
  34. I don’t like it, am I the only one??

    Comment by affliction, posted on February27 at 10:55 am

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