Cisitalia

Cisitalia 202 coupe, body by Pinin Farina, 1946 This is the car that taught the world to treat a car body as sculpture. Pinin Farina gave the small grand-touring fastback taut lines and a low hood, a clean break from the bulky, upright shapes most cars still wore just after the war. The Museum of Modern Art put it in its 1951 show 8 Automobiles, and in 1972 Pininfarina gave a 202 to the museum, the first car in its permanent collection. If you want to understand the postwar Italian grand tourer, and half the coupes that followed it, this is where the idea starts.