Sbarro Miglia '15

[Miao]

A new concept car from Franco Sbarro's design school, Espera. Officially introduced at this year's Essen Motor Show.

Sbarro Miglia - Reminder of the Legendary Race in Italy

For decades, Franco Sbarro has been one of the most famous designers of cars and motorcycles. The self-made man, born in
the Italian province of Lecce in 1939, built his first prototype in 1959. Since then, he has presented well over 150 studies. His
"empire" includes not only his design office called ACA (Ateliers de Construction Automobile / Design Office for Automobiles) in
Neuenburg/Neuchatel in Switzerland (founded in 1968) but also, amongst others, the Sbarro Design School for Young People
(founded in 1992) as well as the ESPERA Works Museum opened in 1995.

This year, students at his Design School constructed the Miglia study. The red vehicle is intended as a reminder of the legendary
Mille Miglia which, from 1927 to 1957, was a sports car race on cordoned-off public roads over 1,600 kilometres from Brescia to
Rome and back.

This is what the sports cars looked like almost 60 years ago. The study has the classic shape of the racers at that time - of course, with a front-located engine. It weighs 1,050 kilogrammes. The technology is new. The Miglia is driven by a Porsche V8 engine
and has bodywork made of fibre glass and an automatic gearbox, unthinkable for a racing sports car at that time.

[grooks10]

Sbarro Miglia - Reminder of the Legendary Race in Italy
This is what the sports cars looked like almost 60 years ago. The study has the classic shape of the racers at that time

I hate when designers try to take the past and make it look like the future. The beauty of the cars from that era was that they appeared as though they were designed by sculptors and architects, but this? This looks like it was designed by a computer in a wind tunnel. Sure, it has some vaguely similar lines and profile shaping, but other than that, this car looks nothing like the original Mille Miglia cars. I know this is a design school trying to demonstrate its talent and creativity, but when they pollute the past like this, especially with an ugly car like this one, it really turns me off.