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As for the interior, one proposal of the Fiat design center made it to 3D, but it was Pininfarina who received approval by everybody. With the metal strip across the dashboard, followed through into the sides of the interior it became a very pleasant place to be in.

It is not just the interior that make the Coupe have the Pininfarina text on the sides and on the dashboard. It is also constructed (by hand) at the Industrie Pininfarina factory. All exterior is made in steel, but there were thought of using thermoplastic resins and aluminum.

Peter Davis, director of Fiat Design, when the coupe made it to the market: "To my mind it's a message from Stile Fiat to the car design world. A message that has prompted debate, but has won the admiration of a lot of designers. You could compare it to a painting: the 'photographic' technique exists, but there's Andy Warhol as well".

Ermanno Cressoni, in charge of Know-how Engineering, says there are two possible cultural positions. One that interprets elements from the past in a modern way, one that takes the automobile and makes references to pictorial inspiration: the cuts above the wheel arches that refer to the cuts in the canvases of Lucio Fontana.

"The basic idea is already clear in numerous sketches, with a powerful dynamism expressed by cuts" is what Di Giusto says.

As the model got finalized, designers chose five colours for the Fiat Coupe: red, yellow, blue, black and white, the classic sports colours of the various European nations. Of the white model, only 130 were made and some really consider it as a collectors' item. But whichever, the Coupe is a car that received a lot of attention by its designers, and thanks to people being passionately busy with the project have made it a car that has many admirers.

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