’ve met a lot of the great car designers, but I never met Marcello Gandini. Although I did very nearly meet him… in a Milan court. Gandini famously had what you might call an artistic temperament and he was apparently inclined to go to law over any commentaries that questioned his claim to autonomous creative responsibility for the ineffable Lamborghini Miura. His obituary even had a photograph of him standing by the car. My error had been to
