Now That the Ferrari designers No Longer Making Cars

Pininfarina SpA, the Italian company known as a maker and designer as well as exclusive booking car luxury top car manufacturers. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Cadillac and others are some examples of working on cars ever.

In fact, Pininfarina has designed almost all of Ferrari's car output since 1950. While his car was not able to be calculated. Last car it produced was completed in 2010 and, among others, Alfa Romeo Spider, Alfa Romeo Brera, and the Ford Focus Coupe Cabriolet.

However, now the activity makes the car was stopped by the company. He is now concentrating more on design and engineering activities only.

As reported by Reuters and egmcartech.com, Friday, October 14, 2011, a company spokesman said the quiet luxury car market with a particular specification is the reason. "Unfortunately we had to stop production activities considering the condition of the car market. Furthermore, we concentrate on the design and engineering," he said.

Even the spokesman added, since March, it had to dump shares in companies that are managed together with the Swedish car manufacturer, Volvo Car Corporation. French billionaire Vincent Bollore, Pininfarina is rumored to have bought shares.

Besides being quiet the car market specialized berspesifikasi, Pininfarina chaotic financial condition since 2008 because of financial crisis is also a reason for discontinuation of activity triggers the production of cars. Since then, the number of previous production reached 40 thousand units every year, gradually slipping.

In fact, throughout 2010 and the number of cars it produces only about 7,000 units. Since the economic crisis of 2008 was also the company that started up in 1930 it continues tangled financial problems, and now he must get ready for laying off 127 people remaining employees.