Touring Superleggera

Touring Superleggera is the marque and trade name of the Milan coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring, founded in 1926 by the lawyers Felice Bianchi Anderloni and Gaetano Ponzoni, who took over the older firm Carrozzeria Falco. The name comes from the Superleggera ("super light") construction system patented in 1936, in which a frame of small diameter tubes carries thin alloy body panels. Touring bodied chassis for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Maserati, Lancia, Lamborghini and others before the original business wound up in 1966. Its trademarks were bought in 2006 by a new firm, Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera S.r.l., which designs and builds limited series and concept cars on the chassis of other makers.