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Dante Giacosa (3 January 1905 - 31 March 1996) was an Italian automobile designer and engineer responsible for a range of Italian automobile designs — and for refining the front-wheel drive layout to an industry-standard configuration.
Apr 2, 1996 · Dante Giacosa, the auto designer whose career at Fiat spanned nearly half a century and who brought forth such models as the Fiat 500, which motorized Italy in the 1950's, died Sunday...
Dante Giacosa (Roma, 3 gennaio 1905 – Torino, 31 marzo 1996) è stato un ingegnere e designer italiano, considerato uno dei maestri della scuola motoristica italiana
Apr 2, 1996 · Dante Giacosa designed some of Europe's most popular automobiles, but he was best known as the "father of the 500," the chubby little car that symbolized Italy's postwar economic miracle. Mr....
Conceived as an economical car for the masses, this compact, rear-engine automobile was highly popular first in Italy and later throughout Europe. Despite its diminutive size—it is more than three feet shorter than a Volkswagen Beetle—Giacosa’s cleverly designed vehicle has a surprisingly spacious interior and can accommodate four passengers.
Jan 3, 2020 · Automobile designer Dante Giacosa was born in Rome, Italy. His work covered a wide range of automobiles, from minicars to sports cars. Giacosa was especially instrumental in spearheading the design of small automobiles during his many years at the Fiat company.
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Born in Rome in 1905, and the son of a policeman, Giacosa put his engineering genius down to something quite prosaic — a knowledge of Latin and ancient Greek that gave him, so he said, “a sense of measure and balance without which I could not have done my job”.