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Italian businessman Gian Mario Rossignolo plans to revive the De Tomaso sports auto brand. The former Fiat S.p.A marketing principal aims to develop intensify 8,000 De Tomaso cars a year in a ex- Pininfarina S.p.A. works in the offing Turin. Rossignolo, 79, who bought the De Tomaso trade name from a Modena, Italy, bankruptcy court earlier this month, plans a three-model align of aluminum incitement vehicles.

The De Tomaso sports buggy company was founded in 1959 in Modena past ancient Argentinean racing driver Alejandro De Tomaso. The fellowship filed for bankruptcy in 2004, a year after De Tomaso’s death.

De Tomaso became an iconic brand through despite sports automobile fans in the 1960s and 1970s with three coupes–the 1963 Vallelunga, the 1966 Mangusta and the 1970 Pantera. Geneva launch During his 22-year occupation with Fiat group, Rossignolo was a top-grade marketing official and CEO of the Italian automaker’s Lancia stigmatize from 1977 to 1979. Two years ago, the flamboyant businessman failed in a order to get Bertone’s contract manufacturing transaction for his De Tomaso automobile calculate. Bertone’s coachbuilding operations procure since been bought by Fiat. In October, Rossignolo signed a prodrome deal to hire out Pininfarina’s factory in Grugliasco, in the western outskirts of Turin, one of three Pininfarina plants. Rossignolo plans to build 3,000 units a year of a De Tomaso crossover as sumptuously as 3,000 indulgence sedans and 2,000 coupes. The word go dummy is scheduled to come out at the Geneva auto show in 2011. Rossignolo said his new De Tomaso company want invest 116 million euros ($172 million) in the project in the next four years. The Grugliasco plant employs 900 people and includes a group rat on, surface machine shop and definitive joining facility. Innovative aluminum construction Rossignolo has been promoting with a view the gone and forgotten four years his role project for the duration of a three-model range of aluminum vehicles based on an innovative construction technology called Univis. According to Rossignolo, Univis is a space-frame technology that requires at most about 30 dies to shape a vehicle. The De Tomaso describe is Rossignolo’s second venture at reviving a expired Italian brand. Around 15 years ago, he attempted to restart Isotta Fraschini and an Audi-based Isotta Fraschini T8 was unveiled at the 1996 Geneva show, but it not under any condition entered construction.