The 80th anniversary of Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro is being commemorated at the Grand Basel exhibition this week with a selection of some of the famous cars he designed being assembled as a tribute to his lifetime of work

Italdesign will showcase its latest creation, the utra-limited production “Zerouno Duerta” coupé supercar just four months after its world debut in Geneva at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which gets underway this morning

The Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign prototype, announced at the end of last month, will make its world debut at Goodwood this week as it’s also revealed the design firm aims to build 50 units at a price upwards of 900,000 euros

Nissan and Italdesign have sprung a surprise by creating a new prototype vehicle, the Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign, in their first-ever collaboration together which commemorates the 50th anniversaries of both the GT-R and Italdesign

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturing hopeful Youxia Motors and Italdesign have just signed up to a three-year agreement for the development of new electric vehicles that they say will hit the market in the coming years

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Thirty prototypes and production models from the history of Italdesign and, in many cases, also that of mobility were displayed in the courtyard of Castello del Valentino during the Turin Auto Show

The programme of events celebrating Italdesign’s fiftieth anniversary will get into full swing at the fourth edition of Turin Auto Show Parco Valentino with the Italian design house set to display thirty significant prototype and production cars

ItaliaspeedTV: A close-up look at the interior and exterior styling as well as the optional colour finish choices of the Zerouno Duerta, which is about to become the second low volume model to be built by Italdesign Automobili Speciali

New Model - Italdesign Automobili Speciali Zerouno Duerta: A targa-top version of the Zerouno, the second model from the new special brand launched last year will also be designed, engineered and produced in-house

ItaliaspeedTV: The Giugiaro Brivido concept is a functional, hybrid, four-seat prototype developed on a mechanics of the Volkswagen Group and is capable of reaching 100 km/h in 5.8 seconds, with a maximum speed of 275 km/h

Techno Classica Essen, which claims to be the world's largest classic car show, has opened its doors this weekend for the 2011 edition and Italdesign Giugiaro has a leading role with eleven of its most significant models on display

ItaliaspeedTV: Since Geneva last year Giorgetto Giugiaro has sold a controlling stake in ItalDesign to VW and fittingly for this 81st edition of the Swiss motor show the Italian designer was back with a rash of VW badged concepts

ItaliaspeedTV: With a "real" taxi driver, Ercole, behind the wheel Italdesign's Quaranta concept supercar becomes a "taxi" cruising thorugh the streets of Rome looking for fares in a new TV commercial for Corona Extra

The Volkswagen Group has completed the acquisition of the majority shareholding in Italdesign Giugiaro and therefore now holds a 90.1 percent stake in the Turin-based company including the brand name rights and patents

Volkswagen Group today completed its widely anticipated takeover of Turin-based design and engineering house Italdesign Giugiaro, which will lead to an intensification of their successful cooperation, putting it forward on a new footing

According to media reports today, Germany's Volkswagen AG is poised to buy a controlling stake in leading Italian engineering and design firm Italdesign-Giugiaro, with the deal set to be announced as early as next week

At the Geneva Motor Show this week Italdesign Giugiaro has introduced the Emas family of low environmental impact concept cars created with the Malaysian manufacturer Proton which are based on a Lotus-developed plug-in hybrid drive system

ItaliaspeedTV: Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, Group Managing Director of Proton, and Giorgetto Giugiaro present the première of the new Eco-Car Family Project and of the Proton EMAS which is based on the Lotus Hybrid System

Giugiaro will introduce a new hybrid car designed in conjunction with Proton and Lotus when the 80th Geneva International Motor Show gets underway this morning which is set to revolutionise traditional segmentation in the car market

Two and a half months after signing a partnership, Giugiaro and Microsoft have jointly presented the first prototypes of their cooperation to emphasise the importance of technological innovation in processes of corporate development

ItaliaspeedTV: Italdesign-Giugiaro Frazer-Nash Namir - Computer simulated film of the Giorgetto Giugiaro designed alternative fuelled supercar dubbed as the world's fastest hybrid turning in a lap on the Monza racetrack

The Namir, a concept sports car developed by Italdesign Giugiaro and British hybrid powertrain developed and manufacturer Frazer-Nash, which made its debut in Geneva this spring was shown in the FoS-Tech pavilion at Goodwood last weekend

Italdesign Giugiaro and Microsoft, a world leader in the design and development of information technology solutions, have today announced that they have sealed a cooperation agreement for the design of new generation information systems

Giugiaro and Vredestein have now been collaborating for a full decade and to commemorate this successful Italian-Dutch partnership the tyre manufacturer is presenting Giuguiaro's VAH.HO concept car on its stand in Geneva this week

Unveiled in Geneva Namir is a new concept sports car born of the collaboration between Italian designer Italdesign Giugiaro and Frazer-Nash, a company that specialises in the design, construction, and marketing of hybrid systems

Photo Gallery: 79th Geneva Motor Show - Italdesign-Giugiaro Frazer-Nash Namir

Giugiaro will present a new concept at the 79th Geneva Motor Show that evolves the Italian designer's alternative fuelled high powered sports car theme of recent years and which the firm is dubbing as the fastest hybrid in the world

Photo Gallery: Trilogy of the Automobile 3: Dream, Torino Esposizioni - Italdesign/Giugiaro

At the 78th Paris Mondial de l'Automobile SsangYong is showing the first fruits of its relationship with Shanghai Automotive Industries Group – a new compact SUV, codenamed C200 which has been designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro

The NICE Car Company will present at the British Motor Show tomorrow a new zero-emission electric city car built by Innovech International and styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro which is set to hit the streets of London this autumn

Photo Gallery: NICE Car Company - MyCar

Through an initiative by Italian Independent stylish Italian machines from Fiat, Maserati, Iveco, Ducati and Piaggio and Montecarlo Offshore have been reworked by Giugiaro and ChangeDesign and shown in the Piazza Ognissanti, Florence

Photo Gallery: Italia Independent & Giugiaro - Pitto Uomo 2008, Piazza Ognissanti, Florence

The 40th anniversary of Giorgetto Giugiaro's ItalDesign studio was honoured at Villa d'Este with an appearance by the futuristic and unique Bizzarrini Manta concept the first project tackled four decades ago by his new studio

Photo Gallery: Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este - Bizzarrini Manta (ItalDesign)

Italdesign Giugiaro celebrated their fortieth anniversary in Geneva with the launch of the Quaranta concept car developed in collaboration with Toyota to showcase their Hybrid Synergy Drive

Photo Gallery: 78th Geneva International Motor Show - Italdesign Giugiaro Quaranta

The Quaranta clean-technology project is a concept car designed to celebrate Italdesign Giugiaro’s forty years of business in styling and technological research at the service of the automotive sector

Photo Gallery: Italdesign-Giugiaro Quaranta

Giugiaro has presented a fourth look at his new concept project which is set to be unveiled at the 78th Geneva Motor Show next week, this time allowing a look at the general overall shape

Giugiaro has presented a third teaser sketch of the new concept project it will unveil to the world at the Geneva Motor Show in exactly a week's time on the occasion of the firm's 40th anniversary

Giugiaro has presented a second teaser image of a new concept project that will be unveiled in Geneva, this time concentrating on the rear corner which throws up a novel rear light arrangement

Giorgetto Giugiaro will unveil a concept at the Geneva Motor Show on 4th March as the Italian designer celebrates his 40th anniversary in the business, and today a teaser photos offers a first clue

During a visit to Italy and a stopover in Turin, site of the Thales Alenia Space facility, the astronauts of the Esperia space mission visited the Giugiaro Design team, designers of the mission logo

With its logo created by Giorgetto Giugiaro, ESA and the Italian Space Agency have chosen the name 'Esperia' for the upcoming Space Shuttle mission of Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli

Giugiaro Design has joined the Reply project on Second Life, where it will be involved in the design and implementation of the Living Network Island environment, providing new 3D objects and prototypes

Giugiaro's latest project, VAD.HO is a super-sporty extreme two-seater concept car fuelled by hydrogen to meet the need to develop alternative and environment friendly propulsion systems

77th Geneva Motor Show Photo Gallery: Ford Mustang by Giorgetto Giugiaro

Italdesign-Giugiaro presented their extreme VAD.HO concept car to the world press last week in Geneva; introduced at the show by Fabrizio Giugiaro, the VAD.HO is a futuristic study based on BMW V12 hydrogen power

77th Geneva Motor Show Photo Gallery: Italdesign-Giugiaro Press Conference

77th Geneva Motor Show Photo Gallery: Italdesign-Giugiaro VAD.HO

Giorgetto Giugiaro will celebrate a successful year by unveiling the Vadhò in Geneva next week; an innovative concept sports car with tandem-style seating that is focused on aerodynamics and which is fuelled by hydrogen

Autosport International Photo Gallery: Ford Mustang by Giorgetto Giugiaro

An Italian icon interprets an American icon: Giorgetto Giugiaro, who famously styled the 1965 Bertone Mustang, returns to the 'muscle car' theme, weaving his magic, as well as 30,000 man hours, on the new edition Ford Mustang

Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d’Este Photo Gallery: Ferrari GG50

Giorgetto Giugiaro is presenting his unique Ferrari GG50 showcar, which he created to commemorate his 50 years in the automotive design business, in Geneva for its European debut

76th Geneva International Motor Show Photo Gallery: Ferrari GG50

Giorgetto Giugiaro will show the Ferrari GG50 - a concept sportscar he created to celebrate his 50th anniversary as a car designer - to a world wide audience when he presents at the Geneva Motor Show later this month

Giorgetto Giugiaro has designed a tiny new city car which will be built by Honk Kong-based Innovech International and marketed as a Smart FourTwo rival when it reaches the European markets later this year

Recently redesigned by legendary Italian stylist Giorgetto Giugiaro, the Molten GL7 has been chosen as the official ball of the 2006 FIBA Basketball World Championship which will be held in Japan this summer