ANGLO ITALIAN

Pininfarina is best known for their longrunning association with Ferrari, but not all the work from this Italian coachbuilding and styling firm has been devoted to the vehicles from Maranello.

Past Pininfarina styling creations include production models for Alfa Romeo, Peugeot, Fiat and Maserati, to name a few, while oneoffs and concepts were produced for Honda, Bentley, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Ford, Opel and Audi, as well as virtually every Italian carmaker.

In terms of British cars, the Italian firm’s best-known work was restyling the late-1950s Austin A40, which led to it carrying the unofficial ‘Farina’ tag (reflecting the time before the company was offically renamed ‘Pininfarina’ in 1961).

For Jaguar, Pininfarina applied a restyle to the Series 3 version of the XJ6 saloon in 1978, and also produced a one-off ‘XJ Spider’ concept based on