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Touring Superleggera’s head of design on resketching a Ferrari icon

By 2024-11-18T11:09:00

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Car Design News speaks to Matteo Gentile about the process of reimagining an iconic Ferrari 

Unveiled to almost rapturous response at Monterey Car Week 2024, the Touring Superleggera Veloce12 is a restomod based upon a Ferrari 550 Maranello donor car. “Some online comments insisted that the original Pininfarina lines shouldn’t be touched,” CEO Markus Tellenbach admits to us. “But there is no animosity. We have a professional respect for each other’s work. Their question over dinner in California was ‘does it sell?’”

“It’s our version of a famous piece of art from this brand in Maranello,” adds Matteo Gentile, head of design at the famous old Carrozzeria. “Its mask and armour are new.”

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Touring Superleggera Veloce12 on show at The Quail 

With that, it’s over to Gentile to talk us around the car, the analogue movement it joins and what comes next for the illustrious cohort of Italian coachbuilders Touring sits among.

Car Design News: What does this car bring to a bustling restomod market?

Matteo Gentile: I think we have shown the restomod community that you can do something different. We’ve designed everything from scratch. The only thing that is original is the windscreen and a little piece on the mirror. That is a complex and complicated component to change; it’s a baptism of fire to design a new mirror or headlight as a designer. Our expertise comes from using contacts that perhaps some of the restomod community is not able to, working to levels of tolerance and quality that…

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