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Giorgetto Giugiaro (b. August 7, 1938) is an Italian automobile designer. Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest He was born in Garessio, province of Cuneo (Piedmont). Garessio is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km south of Turin Cuneo is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. Piedmont ( Piemonte; Piedmontese and Occitan: Piemont; French: Piémont) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy.

He initiated the "folded paper" era of the 1970s where the cars were designed with straight lines and sharp edges. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. As well as a number of supercars, he is responsible for the design of some of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today. Supercar is a term generally used for a high-end Sports car, whose performance is highly superior to that of its contemporaries

Giugiaro was the winner of the award of Car Designer of the Century in 1999. The Car Designer of the Century was an international award given to the most influential car designer of the Twentieth Century. Three years later he was awarded a place of honor at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan. The Automotive Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for notable figures in the development of the Automobile industry Dearborn is a city in the US state of Michigan. It is located in the Detroit metropolitan area and Wayne County, and is the tenth largest [1]

In addition to designing cars at least one Bontempi keyboard, the Minstrel, had a Giugiaro-designed case. Bontempi is an Italian musical instrument manufacturer Bontempi is well known for manufacturing plastic Chord Organs, small keyboard-like instruments in which the sound is produced A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. He has designed camera bodies for Nikon, an unused proposal for a next generation Macintosh for Apple, as well as a new pasta shape. [2]

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Notes

  1. ^ Giugiaro news. Retrieved on 2008-02-29. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Leap years Although the modern calendar counts a year as 365 days a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours
  2. ^ NOTES & THEORIES: For perfect pasta, simmer for 500 years. findarticles. com. Retrieved on 2007-08-20. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine
  3. ^ Volume leader in automobile design. autonews. com. Retrieved on 2007-08-20. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine

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