Car designer Paolo Pininfarina dies at 65

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 9 - Italian car designer Paolo Pininfarina, since 2008 president of the historic Turin-based auto styling firm, has died aged 65, his family said Tuesday.
    Pininfarina, who joined his famous father Sergio's firm in 1982, was accompanied until the last by his wife Ilaria and his five children Greta, Giovanni, Iole, Tullio and Giulia, as well as by his mother Giorgia Gianolio.
    The engineer, designer and businessman succeeded his brother Andrea as head of the iconic firm in 2008.
    His father Sergio, who died aged 85 in 2012, oversaw many of the designs (particularly Ferraris) for which the company is famous.
    (ANSA).