Between 1964 and 1968, Fiat designers pondered over the possibility of designing a car to be used as a taxi. In 1968 the task was entrusted directly to the Centro Stile Fiat, which, for the first time, embarked on an external partnership with one of the most creative designers of the time: Pio Manzù, son of the famous sculptor Giacomo Manzù. In addition to designing cars, Manzù was behind some of the most famous design objects of that era, including the unmistakable Parentesi lamp, an emblem of essentiality created together with Achille Castiglioni. That same creative mind came up with the Fiat City Taxi which, despite not progressing past the prototype stage, was lauded as one of the most innovative concept cars and became a source of ingenious ideas that were transferred to various production models.
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