AUTOWEEK DOWNLOAD: SHIGENORI MAEDA.(News)

AutoWeek, April, 2006

Byline: RICHARD S. CHANG Last year Ferrari called on students at four prestigious design schools to render their impressions of Ferrari's future. Now the Italian supercar company is taking 1:4-scale models of the 20 finalists around the world as a traveling exhibition titled "New Concepts of the Myth.'' We caught up with one of the five winners, Suzuka, Japan-native Shigenori Maeda.

A fourth-year student at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Maeda's "612 Lafayette'' design-a modernization of the Testarossa-won the Alcoa Award for Excellence in Aluminum Design. AW: Why did you pick the 612 as the basis for your design? Maeda: My image of Ferrari has always been the Testarossa-the 1984 Testarossa. When I heard about the competition I immediately...

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