The Italian Line

The Italian LineThe Italians were building fine carriages around 1550, and they still are: Buy a gran turismo automobile today, one of the first rank, a 130-mile-an-hour car, a Ferrari, Corvette, Maserati, AC Cobra, Aston Martin, E-Jaguar, and you'll be buying a body either designed and made in Italy or massively influenced by the Italians. Buy a small car, a Japanese-made Datsun, a German BMW 1800. a British Sunbeam, and the story is the same. The much-admired lines of the Buick Riviera are cle...