The Pininfarina Wind Tunnel turns 50.
It was the first in Italy for tests on 1: 1 scale cars and is one of seven in the world.
It was inaugurated in 1972 in Grugliasco, near Turin, by the then president Sergio Pininfarina and was an effective tool for testing and developing aircraft, high-speed trains, yachts, buildings, wind engineering infrastructures, industrial design and sports equipment. .
Now it is preparing to face the new challenges of electric mobility in the field of aerodynamic and aeroacoustic development.
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The Pininfarina Wind Tunnel turns 50
"The Wind Tunnel - comments the CEO Silvio Angori - has given the company a considerable competitive advantage by being the only design company to be equipped with it. Born as a tool with which Pininfarina developed its products, it is a strategic asset of the Group expanding the range of services offered to the market: an activity that supports other sectors in addition to the automotive sector, from transport to architecture, from nautical to industrial design ".
The Pininfarina Wind Tunnel, which has a new logo made for the first 50 years, is also one of the few in the world to have a turbulence generation system (Tgs) capable of creating different conditions of controlled turbulence, associated with gusts of wind, overtaking maneuvers, cross winds and cars in the wake.
The ground effect simulation system, on the other hand, allows the real movement conditions of the vehicle to be more faithfully reproduced.
"I am very proud and also moved - said the president Paolo Pininfarina - to be able to celebrate something that was born from the genius of my father. Pininfarina has a real passion for aerodynamics, a passion born well more than 50 years ago, much earlier that my father decided to build this structure.
It all started with my grandfather Pinin, whose visionary intuition in aerodynamics is exemplified since the Lancia Aprilia Aerodinamica produced in 1936 ".
