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FEBRUARY 2002

At the end of December 2001, in view of the excellent results on the Lincoln MK 9, the Ford style center of Deaborn announced to STOLA s.p.a. that they should make two show cars for the 2003 Detroit show.
Shortly thereafter in London an official meeting took placebetween Alfredo Stola, Gameno Grande and Director Gerry McGovern.
Work was due to begin in February 2002, and the show cars in question were the Lincoln Navicross and Mercury Messenger.
Design was again by Adrian Monk,Marek Reichman and Per Selvag, with the ever present technical guidance of Joe Bonacchi.

01London January 2002 Alfredo Stola Gerry McGovern and Gioachino Grande.02London January 2002 Alfredo Stola Gerry McGovern and Gioachino Grande.

Unlike the first Lincoln, developed between 2000 and 2001, for the Navicross' Interior and exterior would be developed in Stola, due to the closure of Ghia a year earlier.

Rivoli febbraio 2002. Nello storico ufficio della STOLA s.p.a. posano per una foto ricordo per inizio lavori della Navicross e della Messenger. Da sinistra Lucio Giarolo, Marek Reichman, Alfredo Stola, Carlo Cavaglià, Sergio Prodan e Giochino Grande.Rivoli February 2002. In the historic office of STOLA s.p.a. they pose for a souvenir photo at the start of the work on the Navicross and Messenger. From left Lucio Giarolo, Marek Reichman, Alfredo Stola, Carlo Cavaglià, Sergio Prodan and Giochino Grande.

Rivoli febbraio 2002. Felice Chiara studia le prime sezioni per il progetto Lincoln Navicross. Questo show car perfettamente marciante che sarà consegnato all'inizio del 2003 sarà il suo ultimo lavoro per poi ritirarsi in pensione.Rivoli February 2002. Felice Chiara studies the first sections for the Lincoln Navicross project. This perfectly running show car which will be delivered in early 2003 will be his last job to retire.

Rivoli maggio 2002. Segio Prodan con affianco il modello della Navicross appena realizzato da cui poi si realizzeranno gli stampi leggeri.Rivoli May 2002. Sergio Prodan alongside the Navicross model just made from which the light molds will then be made.

06Rivoli June 2002 F. Cerva and C. Pastore.07Rivoli June 2002 Carlo Cavaglià

Rivoli settembre 2002Rivoli September 2002

09Rivoli September 2002 F. Sansalone10Rivoli September 2002 C. Smeu

Rivoli ottobre 2002 Cuscunà e Massano.Rivoli October 2002 Cuscunà and Massano.

12Rivoli October 2002 Bonetto Massano and Cuscunà13Rivoli October 2002 X, Bonetto and Spitaleri.

Rivoli fine ottobre 2002 X, Di Maria e ErminioRivoli end of October 2002 X, Di Maria and Erminio.

15Rivoli October 2002 X16Rivoli October 2002 Massano and Cuscunà.

17Rivoli November 2002 Cavaglià, Reichman, Grande and McGovern.18Rivoli November 2002 X, Y, Z and Bonetto

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Rivoli December 2002 Beppe Comollo as often under the car.didascalia

Rivoli dicembre 2002 da sinistra Bonetto, Spitaleri e Rosetti.Rivoli December 2002 from left Bonetto, Spitaleri and Rosetti.

22Rivoli December 2002 Di Maria, Bonetto, Vincenzo, Cubeddù, Spitaleri and Cuscunà23Rivoli December 2002

24Rivoli December 2002 Di Maria, Spitaleri, Chiara, Vincenzo, Bonetto and Cubeddù25Rivoli December 2002 X, Beccati, Y, Vincenzo, Di Maria, Z and McGovern.

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Detroit dicembre 2002 Le foto ufficiali della Lincoln Navicross.Detroit December 2002 Official photos of Lincoln Navicross.

Detroit 6 gennaio 2003 Adriana Monk, Marek Reichman e Gerry McGovern con la Lincoln Navicross.Detroit January 6, 2003 Adriana Monk, Marek Reichman and Gerry McGovern with Lincoln Navicross.

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Detroit January 6, 2003 The Navicross exhibited in the Lincoln stand.didascalia

Concurrently and with a different team of modelers, we also began the construction of the Mercury Messanger, not a running prototype like the Navicross but a complete opening styling model.
Lello Locantore was the technical manager of this project, he realised the show model in the workshops of Via Ivrea in Rivoli , close to Via Ferrero 9.
The Stylists, as for Mercury, were Marek Reichman, and Adriana Monk directed by Gerry McGovern.
In January 2003 at the Detroit Show, a jury of journalists awarded the Messenger the prize for best interior design.

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35Rivoli March 2002 Massimo Rosettti, Pasqualino Procopio, Luca Rosetti, X and Y

36Rivoli April 200237Rivoli April 2002 X, Y, Z, and Vito Schieraldi.

Rivoli settembre 2002Rivoli September 2002

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Rivoli ottobre 2002 Beppe Comollo.Rivoli October 2002 Beppe Comollo.

42Rivoli October 2002. Francesco Acquaviva43Rivoli October 2002

44Rivoli November 2002 Sokol45Rivoli November 2002

Rivoli dicembre 2002. Il team al completo di Lello Locantore che ha lavorato sulla Mercury Messenger.Rivoli December 2002. The complete team of Lello Locantore who worked on the Mercury Messenger.

Torino dicembre 2002 L'interno della Messenger premiato a Detroit.Turin December 2002 The interior of the Messenger awarded in Detroit.

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Turin December 2002 The official photos of the Mercury Messenger in the studio.Torino dicembre 2002 Le foto ufficiali in studio della Mercury Messenger.

50Detroit January 6, 2003. The Messenger on the Mercury booth.

 

END OF WINTER 2002

At the end of the winter of 2002, Mitsubishi Europe Style Vice President Akinori Nakanischi ordered Stola to build a see-through model of a mono-volume that would replace the Space Wagon series.
Much bigger than the old model,the name was Grandis.

012002 in Stola s.p.a. the see through model of a Space Wagon minivan is created which will then take the name Grandis.

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July 2002. Akinori Nakanishi vice president of the Mitsubishi Europa Style Center and his letter of congratulations for the work carried out in Rivoli.didascalia

 

MARCH 2002

In March 2002, the Mitsubishi Europe Style Centre, in co-ordination their counter part in Japan, required STOLA S.p.a. to build two hard style models.
Their clear goal was an advanced design study from each of the two Style Centres to imagine what the future Lancer, planned for 2007, could look like.
More than ever,o the Japanese car designers worked as a team,composed of directors Boulay and Nakanishi, together with their colleagues Peter Arcadipane and Omer Halilhodzic.
The selected model was continued by a team of Stola modelers in Japan at the Mistubishi Style Centre.
The away modelers were Giuseppe Federico, Pietro Calò, Moreno Marangon, Gabriele Sbeghen, Nicola Partucci and Alessandro Pellichero.

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Rivoli 2002: in Stola s.p.a. two style model proposals are made for the future Lancer ninth series. The design is made and directed by the Mitsubishi Europa Style Center.didascalia

03Japan Okazaki May 2002. The Mitsubishi plant where there is also the Style Center and the modeling shop.

Okazaki Mirsubishi giugno 2002. L’interno della modelleria e una foto ricordo del Team dei modellatori Mitsubishi e Stola.Okazaki Mitsubishi June 2002. The interior of the model shop and a souvenir photo of the Mitsubishi and Stola modeling team.

Okazaki luglio 2002. Una cena con il Team Stola al Completo. Gabriele Sbeghen, Pietro Calò,  Giuseppe Federico, Nicola Partucci, Alessandro Pellichero, Moreno Marangon.Okazaki July 2002. A dinner with the Complete Stola Team. Gabriele Sbeghen, Pietro Calò, Giuseppe Federico, Nicola Partucci, Alessandro Pellichero, Moreno Marangon.

 

END OF MARCH 2002

At the end of 2001, the organizers of the Turin Motor Show decided to discontinue the event.
The Stolas decided to participate in the next Geneva Motor Show, in 2003, with the opportunity to be present in a more international environment and attended by even more of their customers, as well as, perhaps, some new ones.
At the end of march 2002, it was decided to build the Stola GTS, again based on the 986 Porsche Boxter coupe.
Designed by Aldo Brovarone who was assisted by his friend Peter Arcadipane, he paid reference to history by using the unmistakable Gulf livery, blue, orange and black.
It is fair to say that the Stola GTS was itself derived from the Stola S82 Spyder which in reality the S82 no longer existed.

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Agosto 2002 Il disegno di Aldo Brovarone.August 2002 The drawing by Aldo Brovarone.

Rivoli settembre 2002 Aldo Brovarone e Peter Arcadipane.Rivoli September 2002 Aldo Brovarone and Peter Arcadipane.

05Rivoli September 2002 X and Sbeghen06Rivoli September 2002 Aldo Brovarone.

07Rivoli September 2002 Aldo Brovarone and Vincenzo Mammone08Rivoli September 2002 Alfredo Stola and Aldo Brovarone

09Rivoli September 2002 Alfredo Stola and Aldo Brovarone

10Rivoli September 2002 From left standing Brovarone, Coletto and Sbeghen.

Rivoli ottobre 2002 La Stola GTS prima di essere verniciata con la livrea definitiva viene testata con i soli fondi.Rivoli October 2002 Before being painted with the final livery, the GTS Stola is tested with the bottoms only.

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The final stages of painting and assembly. Peppino, X, Mammone, Y, Z and Di Maria are recognized.didascalia

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Rivoli December 2002 in these photos we recognize Brovarone, Arcadipane, Maurizio della Salt, Carmine Spitaleri, and Stola.didascalia

Rivoli dicembre 2002 Aldo Brovarone e Peter Arcadipane felici alla quasi conclusione del lavoro.Rivoli December 2002 Aldo Brovarone and Peter Arcadipane happy at the near conclusion of the work.

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Torino febbraio 2003. Foto ufficiali della Stola GTS realizzate in studio da Massimo Perini assistito da Teresio Demaria.Turin February 2003. Official photos of the GTS Stola taken in the studio by Massimo Perini assisted by Teresio Demaria.

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Ginevra 4 marzo 2003 La Stola GTS in mostra nello stand della STOLA s.p.a.Geneva 4 March 2003 The Stola GTS on display in the stand of STOLA s.p.a.

Ginevra 4 marzo 2003. L'Ingegner Carlo Alecci, Maria Paola Stola, Laura Novarese e Silvia Calautti.Geneva 4 March 2003. Engineer Carlo Alecci, Maria Paola Stola, Laura Novarese and Silvia Calautti.

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Ginevra 2003 Fabrizio Giugiaro visita lo stand della Stola s.p.a. Nella foto Fabrizio insieme a Francesco e Maria Paola Stola.Geneva 2003 Fabrizio Giugiaro visits the Stola s.p.a. stand In the photo Fabrizio with Francesco and Maria Paola Stola.

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Si riconoscono Imperatori, Besana, Carmelo, Petrelli, Alecci, De Micheli e Stola, in secondo piano Gallina e Novo.We recognize Imperatori, Besana, Carmelo, Petrelli, Alecci, De Micheli and Stola, in the background Gallina and Novo.

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April 2003 Test drive at the Pirelli track in Vizzola Ticino, Italy, carried out by the pilot Massimo Perini.

34September 2003 Zell am See. Alfredo and Maria Paola Stola visiting the Porsche Design Studio with the GTSAlfredo and Maria Paola Stola will make their first trip with the Stola GTS in September 2003 to Graz, to participate in an event organized by Magna Steyr dedicated to Show Cars at the invitation of Technical Director Harald Wester.
A few years had passed since the Cayenne style model project partly developed in Zell Am See and the idea of ​​a visit to the Studio came naturally.
It was the opportunity for a brief greeting with the Professor and other people known in the past, and with pleasure to see on his desk the 1/43 scale model of the GTS built by hand by ABC Brianza that Alfredo Stola shortly after the Motor Show. Ginevra had sent him along with the official CD for the press.

Zell am See. L’occasione di questo viaggio è donare il modellino in scala della GTS a Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. Questa foto dal libro di Karl Ludvigsen "Origin of the species" è del 2011 ed è stata scattata in occasione del suo settantacinquesimo compleanno.

This photo portrait of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche in his office appears in Karl Ludgvisten's book “The Origin of the Species” published in 2012. It seems that the shot is from September 2003. At the bottom left on the desk appears the scale model of the Stola GTS with the CD on it for journalists.

 

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.

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

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.

Estate 2002 Cambiano presso il Centro Studi Pininfarina. Ecco il modello di stile degli esterni disegnato e costruito dalla PininfarinaSummer 2002 Cambiano at the Pininfarina Study Center.
Here is the exterior style model designed and built by Pininfarina.

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

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

Ginevra 28 febbraio 2006 la Ferrari 599 viene presentata ufficialmente.Geneva 28 February 2006 the Ferrari 599 is officially presented.

19Engineer Amedeo Felisa Ferrari Technical Director.20The Ferrari 599 in Geneva.

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