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Jason Castriota
Jason Castriota is an Italian American automobile designer born in White Plains, New York and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston and attended but dropped out of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.<ref name="veloce">{{
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}}</ref>. After his internship at the Pininfarina design studio, he decided to stay in Turin rather than return to the US to complete his studies. In Pininfarina, he worked under Ken Okuyama, continuing the training he received as a student of Okuyama's at ACCD. He took part in the design of production cars such as the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and Maserati GranTurismo, concept cars like the Maserati Birdcage 75th and the Rolls Royce Hyperion, and, as Head Designer for Special Projects, one-off exclusive cars for particular customers, such as the "Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina", a restyled Ferrari Enzo for American car collector James Glickenhaus, and the Ferrari 612 Kappa, a restyling of the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti for car collector Peter Kalikow.
Castriota left his position at Pininfarina on the eve of the Paris Motor Show in September 2008, and was set to become Design Director at Stile Bertone. He started his new position on December 1, 2008.<ref name="CarDesignNews">Template:Citation/core{{#if:|}}</ref>
He took up the position of Director of Design at Stile Bertone in 2008 and then opened a design consultancy with offices in New York and Turin.
In June 2010, Saab Automobile announced the appointment of Jason Castriota as its new Design Director, reporting directly to Saab Automobile CEO Jan Åke Jonsson. He and his design company will be responsible for exterior and interior design and will lead the design activities at Saab as the brand renews and broadens its product range. “I’m greatly looking forward to joining such an iconic brand,” said Castriota. “Saab has a very strong and distinctive heritage which gives it great potential to develop. This is an exciting opportunity for me to help shape its future products.” <ref name="SAAB Newsroom">Template:Citation/core{{#if:|}}</ref>
Designs
- Bertone Mantide (2010)
- Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina (2006)
- Maserati GranTurismo (2007)
- SSC Ultimate Aero II (2010) [1]
External Links
- Inside Project M
- Top Gear Exclusive: Bertone’s Savior? 14 Questions For American Designer Jason Castriota
- Pininfarina: Ferrari P4/5
- Car and Driver: Ferrari P4/5
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- EXCLUSIVE: Stile Bertone's Jason Castriota Designing New Multi-Million Dollar One-Off Super Car
- Inside Project M: First Chapter of Supercar Designer Jason Castriota’s New Project
