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5 Italian Design Houses and Their Best Cars - Gear Patrol

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Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Form with function. Italian design — with all its passion and soul — is so often fetishized in the automotive world that it has become a cliché (see: passion and soul). Yet it’s for a good reason — there’s no denying that the Italians have consistently produced some of the best-looking cars of the last century. And we’re not just talking Italian cars, either; auto brands from around the globe — England, Germany, Japan and even America — have come to the Italians for their automotive design expertise. Pininfarina, Zagato, Bertone, Italdesign Giugiaro and Carrozzeria Ghia are the five big design houses, and odds are their designs comprise the majority of anyone’s “best-looking cars” list. Logic would dictate that because of these machines’ desirable looks, their prices are astronomical. While for the most part that is true, there are some designs that have slipped into the affordable ran

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