APRIL 2002

April 2002, and a new Ferrari to design, in fact, the Maranello company asked that Stola s.p.a. to realise the engineering of the new F141.
This 12-cylinder would replace the 575M and was another design masterpiece born in Pininfarina ,its name, 599 Fiorano.
For the Stola family this was a unique job, Roberto had been sick for three years and yet despite this he, along with Alecci, Bustreo and Biassoni for the technical / commercial definition, conducted the negotiations with with Ferrari with both strength and passion
Engineer Amedeo Felisa, Ferrari’s technical director,appointed Engineer Maurizio Manfredini as project manager, who will then deal directly with Gottardo Bustreo and Piero De Micheli of Stola for the duration of the project.
The chassis of the F141 would be developed by the Fiat Auto group's Elasis with an innovative aluminum space frame technology, while for the body and moving parts the engineers specified that Stola should use aluminum, with the exception of the rear luggage compartment in plastic.
The team leaders were Roberto Arpini for the body and the moving parts, Paolo Zerbini for the external finishes, Giuseppe Castiglioni for the interiors and Paola Busato for the bill of materials.
The Stola team was also supported by suppliers Med Line and Car.
The Ferrari team with whom they would go on to interact were Mauro Del Monte, Toni Fabio, Emanuele Ghirelli, Alberto Migliorini, Vincenzo Matullo, Riccardo Ugolini and Franco Macaro.
The contracted activities were: technical feasibility in the Pininfarina style center, modeling of class A surfaces for exteriors and interiors, studies for the definition of bodywork and exterior finishes, design and 3D modeling of details, bill of materials management and the design of assemblies for manufacturing.
For the first time, with the exception of an aluminum part representing the area of ??the two innovative rear pillars, Ferrari did not require the construction of the mathematical verification master for the validation of class A style surfaces.

The innovative rear pillar of the F141, the mathematical surface used in the Stola derived from the style model designed and built by Pininfarina.

The development of aesthetic surfaces as usual was carried out in the Rivoli headquarters by the team of Massimo Stola, and Carlo Mantovani together with the modelers Adriano Rossi, Gianfranco Cappa, Alessandro Maggiolini.

Summer 2002 Cambiano at the Pininfarina Study Center.
Here is the exterior style model designed and built by Pininfarina.

Autumn 2002 Cambiano at the Pininfarina Study Center.
Here is the style model of the interiors designed and built by Pininfarina.

Given that a mathematcal verification master model was not being constructed, the Stola team building the A-class surfaces worked even more closely with Messrs Valentini, Cartia and Randazzo from Pininfarina directed by Engineer Lorenzo Ramaciotti.
The Rivoli VR room became the fulcrum of this important phase, having to guarantee the validation of the A class surfaces in a purely virtual way.

Barco's 3D visualization system supported the Silicon Graphics hardware running Opticore and Icemsurf software that had been selected two years earlier by the systems manager Gianfranco Morlacchi and ensured the success of the validation process.
The engineering activities were mainly carried out in Cinisello Balsamo and the second VR room was put to good use by the Ferrari team, allowing ever-more positive sharing of solutions between numerous co-designers.
A VPM (Virtual Project Management) data storage system, custom made by IBM, allowed data to be shared with suppliers and engineers.
The synchronization of drawings and 3D models took place three times a day, in this way the data was available and updated for Ferrari, Stola, Elasis and the selected engineers.
On 26th July 2004 Alfredo Stola, with his sale of the company's shares, left the position of President of STOLA s.p.a. at the moment that the definitive studies stage had been completed.
The activities continued with the same team of designers under the new ownership, the end result were excellent with compete customer satisfaction.
The 599 Fiorano was be presented to the press on 28th February 2006 by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo at the 76th Geneva international motor show.

Cinisello Balsamo November 2003. Piero De Micheli, Mauro Del Monte (Ferrari), Fabio Toni (Ferrari), Paolo Zerbini, Marian Purcaru, Federico Venturino, Bogdan Maglaviceanu and Giuseppe Castiglioni.

Geneva 28 February 2006 the Ferrari 599 is officially presented.

Engineer Amedeo Felisa Ferrari Technical Director.The Ferrari 599 in Geneva.

11 OCTOBER 2002

Roberto Stola 1936 - 2002On October 11th 2002, following an illness discovered at the beginning of 1999 which he fought until the last, Roberto Stola, president and 50% shareholder of STOLA spa and of the companies he directed, passed away.
Allowing for operations and medication, he had always worked with dedication and strength, demonstrating responsibility towards all the workers at STOLA spa its subsidiaries.
To him we owe the vision, at the beginning of the 80's, to focus everything on the new Cad Cam technologies and to milling of Numerical Control models, consequently starting the design of the most advanced body and interior trim systems with the most advanced tools.
For the company, the strategic possibility of designing complete automobiles comes from his intuition to accept the proposed acquisition of Autec by Fiat Auto.

NOVEMBER 2002

In mid-November 2002 with great urgency the Alfa Romeo Style Centre commissioned from STOLA s.p.a a see-through style model to be presented at the 2003 Geneva show.
The name of the project was Kamal, it was to be the concept for the first Alfa SUV and consequently the first of the entire Fiat Group. The model was developed entirely in Rivoli with Arese designers Alessandro D'ambrosio and Tori Odagiri, directed by Wolfgang Egger working with the surface and physical modelers from Stola.

Rivoli October 2002. The Stola modeling team together with the two designers (inside the cockpit) refine the model with numerous modifications. From left P. Calò, X, Y, Locantore, Leone, ....

Rivoli December 2002. The Kamal model after the fund.

Rivoli January / February 2003 the style model in the final assembly after painting, the designers Tori Odagiri, Alessandro Dambrosio and Alfredo Stola pose for a souvenir photo. We recognize X, Y, Calò, Z, Locantore

Rivoli January / February 2003 The Stola team at work. Locantore, Dambrosio, Zanellati, X, Y, Calò and Tori Odagiri are recognized

Turin February 2003, here are the official photos of the Alfa Romeo Kamal taken in the Euphon studios.

February 2003 Wolfgang Egger, director of the Alfa Romeo Style Center in Arese and his congratulatory letter for the quality of the work carried out for the Kamal project.

Geneva 4 March 2003 The Kamal model on the Alfa Romeo stand.

DECEMBER 2002

In December 2002, Geoge Upex of Land Rover (at that point part of the Ford group) contacted STOLA s.p.a, following the positive experience of 1997 with the two models of the Mini Spiritual.
The project was ambitious, a show car that would showcase the future of the Range Rover.

February 2003 Coventry. Before starting the construction of the prototype, Giuseppe Di Nunno della Stola s.p.a. he will work for two weeks at the Style Center to share technical feasibility with Land Rover technicians.

The work began in February 2003 with the construction of the exterior and interior models. The prototype promised to be very complex ,especially for the sophisticated interiors and the two Lamborghini-type electric opening doors.
This work also marked a generational change of the Technical Heads of the STOLA prototype department.
Felice Chiara reached retirement age and was replaced by Giovanni Longo. The goal was to present the concept for the upcoming Detroit Motor Show, scheduled for January 10, 2004.

September 2003 moments of the prototype processing before painting. In the photo on the right you can see Aristide in a blue shirt.

September 2003. Alfredo Stola and Giovanni Longo, for him the Range Stormer will be his first job
as the new head of the prototype department.
On the right Maurizio Dimaria.

September 2003. Acquaviva.

September 2003. The Land Rover team residing in
Stola s.p.a.

November 2003 Finishing stages of the Range Rover Stormer Show Car.November 2003 Finishing stages of the Range Rover Stormer Show Car.

November 2003. final finishing stages. In the photo on the left you can see Longo with the blue shirt.November 2003. final finishing stages.
Stole posing with Tesauro

November 2003. Gram Alchoc, P.M. Range StormerNovember 2003 ...

November 2003. The exteriors are practically finished and the assembly of the interiors will begin soon.

December 2003. The photos in the studio taken in Turin.

December 2003. Preliminary phases for the night photo shoot at Alfredo's home
and Maria Paola Stola.

The name would eventually become Range Stormer, and in addition to the classic studio shoot, Land Rover's marketing team would also ask for an unusual photo shoot at Alfredo and Maria Paola Stola's house at night.
This was an unforgettable experience, not least because it demonstrated the perfect harmony between Land Rover and Stola teams.

January 2004 Detroit. Alfredo Stola, Matthew Taylor Managing Director Land Rover and Gioachino Grande.

December 2003. A welcome tribute to Alfredo Stola by Land Rover designer Richard Woolley.
During this year of work Alfredo asks Richard to imagine a special edition of the Defender duble cab pick up Stola for an exploration in Iceland.

During the development of Range Stormer , Gerry McGovern was the director of the Land Rover Style Center, in February 2004 Alfredo Stola and Gioachino Grande visited him at his Gaydon office in Britain to talk about a new model.
The idea is to imagine the new Land Rover Defender, one of the most iconic cars in the world.
Ultimately, due to strategy, this model would never be built by Land Rover group.
This glorious model would later be resumed in 2017, its production and marketing is scheduled for 2020.
Regarding the Range Stormer, all the style concepts were later seen on the production Range Rovers in the following years.

DECEMBER 2002

In the last days of 2002 the Mitsubishi Europe Style Centre, still directed by Akinori Nakanishi, proposed a model style for their K Car named EK Wagon.
The designers residing in Rivoli for this project were Osamu Tsushiiya and Hassan Mir.

Rivoli March 2003: in Stola s.p.a. a style model proposal is made for the future EK Vagon. The design is made and directed by the Mitsubishi Europa Style Center.