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.