Which Italian design firm styled the Rolls-Royce Camargue?

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The Italian design firm that styled the Rolls-Royce Camargue was Pininfarina.

Rolls-Royce turned to Pininfarina in 1969 because it wanted a dramatically different two-door flagship rather than another in-house evolution of the Silver Shadow. Pininfarina’s chief stylist, Paolo Martin, developed the design, whose sharply creased body and formal Rolls-Royce grille gave the car a distinctive 1970s appearance.

The Camargue was introduced in 1975 and built by Rolls-Royce’s Mulliner Park Ward operation in London. It shared major mechanical elements with the Silver Shadow, including a 6.75-litre V8, but its styling made it historically unusual: it was the first post-war production Rolls-Royce designed outside the company’s own studio. That distinction excludes earlier coachbuilt variants such as the Corniche.

Only 531 Camargues were produced through 1986, making it far rarer than the Silver Shadow. The model’s name came from the Camargue coastal region in southern France, not from an Italian place or design term.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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