Success Stories

The Photogallery collecting a meticulous selection of some of the most important automobiles, including prototypes, concept cars and vehicles in regular production, to whose design Coggiola has contributed in various ways over the course of more than 50 years of activity, starting with the Saab Sonett III in 1970 and up to the Maserati MC 2020 in 2020.

1956 - Saab Sonett III

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1956 - Saab Sonett III

The Saab Sonett was manufactured between 1955 and 1957 and again between 1966 and 1974. The first prototype, now known as the Sonett I, is a two-seat, open-top, lightweight roadster racer which, ten years later, evolved into the commercially distributed Sonett models II, V4, and III. The 1970 redesign of the Sonett V4, named the Sonett III, was undertaken by Sergio Coggiola. Hinged rear-window glass replaced the Sonett II/V4 rear compartment hatch door. With the mandate for a "bulge-less" hood, the engine compartment opening evolved into a small front popup panel, resulting in more limited access than in the Sonett V4. Extensive engine work required the removal of the entire front hood section.

1969 - Pontiac CF-428 Farago

1969 - Pontiac CF-428 Farago

In 1969, Carrozzeria Coggiola was asked to build a "single piece" based on the Pontiac Grand Prix chassis, by a customer from the United States who had taken advantage of the consultancy of engineer Paul Farago. Coggiola set up the CF 428 based on an exasperation of the formal concept typical of the American production of those years: a long bonnet and a short tail. In the initials of this car there is the C of Coggiola, the F of Farago and 428 were the horses expected with the use of a 7.5-liter engine to replace the original engine. For economic reasons, Coggiola had to keep the entire mechanical part intact, modify the chassis and underbody to a minimum and use the standard car's lights and window lifts.

1987 - Lamborghini Portofino

1987 - Lamborghini Portofino

In 1986, Kevin Verduyn designed a concept car model for Chrysler called the Navajo. The concept never went beyond the clay model stage, but when Chrysler acquired Automobili Lamborghini in 1987, the design was resurrected and with some fairly minor tweaks, turned into the Portofino. The Portofino, a fully functional, four-door, four-seat sport sedan, was built by Coggiola on a lengthened Jalpa chassis, giving the car a mid-engine rear-wheel drive layout. The most interesting feature of the Portofino was the dual scissor doors, enclosing a pillarless passenger compartment. The front doors pivoted forward, as in Lamborghini’s Countach. The rear ones were also scissor-style, but pivoted backwards. The logo on the hood featured the Lamborghini bull inside the Chrysler Pentastar. While the Portofino was a one of a kind concept and Chrysler ownership of Lamborghini would not survive, the concept’s design would inform and influence Chrysler cars for the next two decades. The wide low stance and open plan interior would become the hallmark of the Chrysler LH body vehicles and their “cab-forward” design standard.

1991 - Mercedes C112

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1991 - Mercedes C112

At the 1991 Frankfurt Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz presented the C112, a true two-seater “supercar” capable of exceeding 300 km/h. The management of this project was entrusted to the "DAS" department, an elite department established in 1989 for advanced design projects with the mission of exploring new paths in the field of mobility and design. According to the most basic Mercedes ideology, in the face of superlative performance, the C112 had to be manageable, safe and comfortable. At the head of the project, Karl Leschke, together with his team, defined the sculptural forms of the Mercedes-Benz C112: a pure and architectural form, intricately sculpted along the sides and in the rear. The bodywork was built in Turin by Coggiola on a chassis supplied by Mercedes-Benz. A stylistic concept also underlined by the particular gull-wing doors, which recalled the legendary 300 SL Gullwing: the most iconic of the sports cars of the brand.

1994 - Bentley B3

1994 - Bentley B3

The Bentley B3 was commissioned by the Sultan of Brunei and his brother Prince Jeffri, and was designed by Pininfarina. The car is a rebodied Bentley Continential R. Twelve cars, two in 1994 and ten in 1995, were manufactured in total by Coggiola.

2008 - Ferrari SP1

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2008 - Ferrari SP1

The F430-based Ferrari SP1 (Special Project Number 1), was the first one-off special produced by the Ferrari Portfolio Coachbuilding Programme. The body was designed by former Pininfarina designer Leonardo Fioravanti, at the behest of Junichiro Hiramatsu, a Japanese businessman who was the former president of the Ferrari Club of Japan and an avid collector, and manufactured by Coggiola in 2008. The collector wanted it to be designed specifically by Fioravanti, given his love for the Italian designer’s F100 prototype. The SP1 features sleek dynamic lines that run along the entire length of the car and a rounded rear-end. The front adopts single circular headlights.

2008 - Ferrari SP1

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2009 - Ferrari 599XX

At the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari unveiled the track-only iteration of the 599 GTB, dubbed the 599XX. Designed by Ferrari's Formula-one engineers and manufactured by Coggiola, the car has many changes over the standard car in order to make it more nimble and responsive on a race track. Exterior enhancements include two winglets on the C-pillars for improved downforce, a vented bonnet for improved engine cooling, darkened lexan tail lamps, a carbon fibre 'ducktail' rear spoiler aiding further in downforce, a large rear diffuser for improved under body airflow, tow hooks at the front and rear, additional ducts for improved cooling, a minimalist race interior with racing bucket seats along with a LCD display behind the steering wheel replacing all analogue gauges equipped with a roll-cage and lexan sliding windows. The car also has two fans that were located in the trunk and worked to keep the car on the ground and stopped working at speeds up to 249 km/h, a speed at which the car needed no additional downforce.

2011 - Porsche 918 RSR

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2011 - Porsche 918 RSR

Inspired by the tradition established by classic Porsche endurance racing cars, the design was inspired by the postmodernist philosophy "form follows function". In the 918 RSR the elegant lines are dominated by the accentuated wheel arches, the dynamic air intakes and the impressive passenger compartment. The visible fan between the air intake mounts and the rear spoiler with dimensions of that of the RS Spyder further underline this car's traveling laboratory function. The new “liquid metal chrome blue” color accentuates the sculpted curves of the forms, while the typical orange color of Porsche hybrids on the brake calipers and longitudinal strips of the body adds a touch of chromatic vivacity. The competition technology also prevails in the structure of the particularly light monocoque, in plastic material reinforced with carbon fiber, resistant to torsion.

2010 - Porsche 918 Spyder

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2010 - Porsche 918 Spyder

The Porsche 918 Spyder is a limited-production mid-engine plug-in hybrid hypercar. The entire car was designed around the hybrid drive. The 918 Spyder therefore demonstrates the potential of the hybrid drive to a degree never seen before: the parallel improvement of both efficiency and performance without one being at the cost of the other. The car reveals its close links to motorsport in a variety of ways. It has been designed, developed and produced by Porsche engineers who build race cars, in cooperation with Coggiola and other series production specialists. The 918 Spyder utilizes the best state-of-the-art technologies, taken straight from motor racing, to achieve its top performance. The entire load-bearing structure is made of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) for extreme torsional rigidity. Additional crash elements at the front and rear absorb and reduce the energy of a collision.

2011 - Alfa Romeo 4C

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2011 - Alfa Romeo 4C

The Alfa Romeo 4C Concept is a two-seater, rear-wheel drive coupé that uses technologies and materials derived from the 8C Competizione - carbon, aluminium, rear-wheel drive - and technologies from the latest Alfa Romeo models, but thoroughly developed to enhance the sports appeal of the new car. Built in Modena, birthplace of the world's most famous sports cars, the Alfa 4C's production process integrates Alfa Romeo's design roles and Maserati's manufacturing functions with engineering and technological contribution from Italian world-wide leaders in the component industry for high-performance sports cars. The chassis is composed of a central carbon fiber tub, with aluminium subframes front and rear.

2012 - Porsche Sport Turismo

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2012 - Porsche Sport Turismo

The Porsche Sport Turismo unites the next generation hybrid drive with new ideas for an evolutionary, sporty body concept. The body concept of the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo is an outlook on a possible Porsche sports car of tomorrow: the overhangs are short, and the boot lid is large - both sporty and functional. The concept car combines the dimensions of a premium vehicle with the interior comfort of the luxury class. Its direction indicators and sidelights are integrated in C-shaped lighting units mounted in the large air inlets at the front end. Together with four-point LED headlights in an innovative design, they define the front end appearance of the concept car. The smooth and taut exterior skin is not interrupted by add-on parts. The rear body has been completely reshaped, yet it retains all of the characteristics of a Porsche. Forming the roof termination is an adaptive carbon rear spoiler that produces improved downforce. The new Liquid Metal Blue colour gives the concept car a surface that resembles liquid metal and highlights its contours and design lines more distinctly.

2014 - Maserati Alfieri

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2014 - Maserati Alfieri

Unveiled in 2014, the Alfieri concept car celebrates the brand's centenary, in a masterpiece to honor one of the most prominent of the founding Maserati brothers. The Alfieri uses design elements of the Maserati A6 GCS/54 designed by Pininfarina in 1954. It is based on the chassis of the Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale with a shorter wheelbase of 24 cm. The deep, concave grille lacks the normal chrome surround at the bottom, so it seems to float. The glasshouse area is clean, and the rear end has its corners cut back: the idea is to not have a lot of metal at the rear behind the wheel. This is a sort of trick: the way to play with the volumes of the shapes is close to the heart of the Italian way to think about cars. In the Italian school, the idea has always been to play with shapes, to make the cars look lighter than they really are.

2014 - Porsche Macan

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2014 - Porsche Macan

The Porsche Macan is a high-performance five-door luxury crossover SUV produced from 2014. The Macan shares its platform and wheelbase with the first generation Audi Q5 (2008–2017). The front is aggressive with a high and long hood, while the headlights are reminiscent in the rounded and elongated shape of those of the Porsche sports cars. On the side, the rims with a diameter of up to 21 inches and the narrow window line give the car great dynamism, together with the very long bonnet that also incorporates the headlights. At the rear, a light bar joins the two thin rear lights into which the Porsche logo is embedded, while the steeply sloping rear window and the extremely aggressive bumper give the Macan a really sporty feeling.

2015 - Porsche Mission E - Taycan

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2015 - Porsche Mission E - Taycan

The Porsche Mission E - Taycan is the brand’s first Cross Utility Vehicle. Flat front, muscularly curved wings, and a roofline that slopes down towards the rear, the design bears the DNA of the iconic 911. The brand's first true electric car, equipped with all-wheel drive and four-wheel steering. The car body consists of elements in aluminum, steel and plastic, reinforced with carbon fiber. Carbon was chosen for the rims and a standard diameter of 21 inches at the front and 22 inches at the rear. Lithium batteries are placed under the vehicle floor, between the front and rear, to lower the center of gravity given the weight. There are no rear-view mirrors, replaced by cameras.

1994 - Bentley B3

2016 - Alfa Romeo Stelvio QV

The Stelvio Quadrifoglio was born on the Giorgio platform, designed by Alfa Romeo together with Fiat Chrysler and already used by the Giulia, but slightly modified and raised by 22 cm compared to the sedan, due to an increase in the suspension travel and increased tires; with the Giulia it also shares the engines and most of the mechanics, including the carbon fiber drive shaft. Style and design become complementary to factors such as aerodynamics, speed, power and driving. Think of the hood with structural vents for the passage of air from the inside to the outside of the engine compartment; to the side air intakes to let the intercoolers cool; to the sporty miniskirt and the powerful wheel arches, all in body color; in addition to the four tailpipes and the "truncated tail", an Alfa Romeo classic.

2017 - Range Rover Velar

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2017 - Range Rover Velar

The Range Rover Velar is a crossover SUV produced by Jaguar, that ushers in a new design language for Land Rover, influenced by Land Rover's previous design language that began with the Evoque and most recently was used in the Range Rover Sport. The new design language features smoother lines on the body, and emphasizes sportiness and on-road ability. A SUV of great elegance and personality, the Velar is streamlined and modern, with numerous characterizing elements, as the tapered rear part, the door handles flush with the bodywork (coming out only when needed), the thin fully LED lights (both front and back) and the 22 inches wheels.

2019 - Alfa Romeo Tonale

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2019 - Alfa Romeo Tonale

Behind the style of the Alfa Romeo Tonale there is a rather articulate thought, which draws heavily on the DNA of the brand and on some of the most significant models in its history. The waistline is a precise reference to the Giulia GT of the sixties. In fact, they called it "GT Line", because its shape accurately reflects the classic coupe, curving slightly at the extremes. The three-headlight structure has been defined as "3+3" and directly evokes the Alfa SZ, the coupé designed by Zagato at the end of the 1980s. The rear window with the lower part forming a V is a direct homage to the 2007 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione; which in turn was inspired by the 1938 8C 2900 B beautifully bodied by Touring.

2020 - Maserati MC20

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2020 - Maserati MC20

The Maserati MC20 is a two-seater, mid-engined sports car produced by the Italian car manufacturer in 2020, a mix of elegance and sporting prowess. Innovative by nature, every design detail is functional: the butterfly doors, for example, are not only stunningly beautiful, but they also improve the car’s ergonomics and enable optimal access to and from the cabin. The new super sports car represents the pure form of speed, in true Maserati-style: a work of sculptural engineering previewing the direction of the Brand’s aesthetic future. In fact, the focus on performance led to the conception of a car with a distinct personality, refined aerodynamics and unmistakable lines that render it unique.

Next Challenge

The first project of the new course of Coggiola is the research and development of the design, technology and integrated systems of the ETIOCA taxi cab. This futuristic full electric vehicle is part of “Anna”, an innovative platform based on a modular architecture that allows different vehicle configurations. The first focus of the platform are taxis, because the taxi industry combines a high number of users and a large amount of vehicles, guaranteeing a fast integration with the ecosystem. In the near future, Anna platform will give life to a new generation of service vehicles, such as taxis, delivery, school shuttle, rescue, fire department, police and defense. The ETIOCA taxi is a comfortable vehicle, easy to access, free of architectural barriers. It features seating for 7, plus one for disabled passengers who can get onboard without the need of assistance, thanks to an automatic lifting platform. The isolated driver cabin is fully-equipped and guarantees safety and security. Dynamic advertising panels with LED technology are positioned on the sides and above the vehicle. A mini bar with food and drinks and also a small shop service can be included to enhance the passengers’ travel experience.