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Known for. Industry Standard Front Wheel Drive Layout. 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.
- Industry Standard Front Wheel Drive Layout
- 31 March 1996 (aged 91), Turin, Italy
- 3 January 1905, Rome, Italy
- Italian
As a bonus, he had the coolest name of any car engineer, ever — Dante Giacosa. Everything sounds better in Italian…. 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 ...
Dante Giacosa, engineering designer: born Rome 3 January 1905; died Turin 31 March 1996. In his career Dante Giacosa spanned the golden age of motor manufacture. As the leading design engineer of ...
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Apr 2, 1996 · April 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 ...
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 in Turin. He ...
Dante Giacosa 500f city car designed 1957 (this example 1968) The 500 City Car, commonly referred to as the Cinquecento, was launched by Fiat in 1957. 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 ...
Sep 23, 2018 · Giacosa was born in 1905 and took his studies at the Polytechnic in Turin before arriving at Fiat in 1928, following officer candidate school for the Italian armed services. The monstrous S.p.A. was under control of Giovanni Agnelli, with Cesare Momo as engineering chieftain, but Giacosa's true first boss at Fiat was Carlo Cavalli, a notable ...
