Not a model-car book but the memoirs of a car designer. Enrico Fumia, born in Turin in 1948, won Bertone's «Grifo d'Oro» in 1966 at the age of eighteen and worked at first as a draughtsman and columnist for motoring magazines. After studying engineering he joined Pininfarina in 1976, where he rose to deputy general manager and where he designed, among others, the Alfa Romeo 164, the GTV and the Spider, as well as the Ferrari F90 that was kept secret for years. In 1991 he moved as its head to Lancia's Centro Stile, where he designed the Lancia Y; since 1998 he has worked independently, much of it in Japan. The book is about how things go on behind the scenes in car design – the makes' clientele, the constraints, and the difference between those who design and those who pass as designers. The title is a play on words: «autoritratto» means a self-portrait, and the car is already in the word.

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