Setting the record straight
‘I NEVER HAD anything to do with the Miura – that was all Gandini.’ Those were the words of the great Giorgetto Giugiaro after he accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Historic Motoring Awards in November. It is not the first time this stance has been stated or reported, but it is the first time I have heard it from the horse’s mouth and it is something of a novelty, and a relief, to have such certainty applied to the subject.
After all, it is a discussion that has raged in print (including in Octane) for decades, but how did such conjecture over authorship start in the first place and how was it allowed to simmer away for 60 years, to my mind besmirching the legacy not just of one of the most important cars ever built, but also of the two greatest car designers of the 20th Century? Pure mischief, I imagine. I well remember an article in which one journo convincingly described convincingly being shown convincing-looking blueprints and concluding it must be t
