Marcello Gandini and his masterpieces

They say that car design today has so many constraints that cars turn out quite similar to one another and, in many respects, are less creative than they were in the past. We asked Marcello Gandini, the author of the magical including those of the Lancia Stratos, Lamborghini Miura and Countach, Alfa Carabo and Montreal and many other masterpieces, what his thoughts were on this assumption “It’s true, there are many limits, but this is a plus: when things get difficult it is the most capable that emerge.” Agreeable and irreproachable, so why is it that today’s cars tend towards boring? “During the course of my career I have tried to design cars that excite but by all accounts it would seem to be difficult to make cars that excite nowadays: everyone looks at the cars everyone else makes, the most successful ones. I have always been sceptical about the way in which certain companies think that leaves little room for the imagination.”