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Volkswagens are built in Mexico. Chevrolets are built in India. Mercedes, BMW and Toyota all build vehicles in, well, the United States. The list goes on and on. But one interesting trend uncovered at this year’s Geneva auto show is the globalization of Italy’s most prestigious car designers.

For car enthusiasts, the names Zagato and Pininfarina conjure up images of fat-fendered and ultra-luxurious Italian sports cars. But in Geneva, the Zagato name graces a Chevy-powered sports car that is built in South Africa. Meanwhile, the storied Pininfarina logo can be found affixed to a sedan built by an Indian company specializing in low-cost cars.

“If you want to survive the financial crisis, you have to go global,” said Andrea Zagato, president of Zagato design and the third generation to run his family’s 90-year-old company. Zagato-designed classics are respected and desired around the world. Examples, like a 1964 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, can fetch millions of dollars at auction.

“What’s really important is the Italian design,” said Mr. Zagato, as we sat in a small conference area on the company’s show stand. A few feet away, the new Zagato Perana Z-One looked every bit like the swept-back sports cars I used to doodle in my schoolbooks.

The fenders of the Z-One twist and turn over large alloy wheels. The cabin is set far back, and frankly, it’s a drop-dead gorgeous little car. Only 999 will be produced annually and sales begin in Europe and South Africa later this year. United States sales are planned, though an on-sale date has not been confirmed.

The fact that a Zagato-badged car is built in South Africa and is powered by a Chevy motor doesn’t bother Mr. Zagato. He said he believed the financial crisis only accelerated the push for companies, large and small, to globalize production. For well-heeled traditionalists, Zagato will continue to build a limited series of what it refers to as its “atelier” cars. These vehicles are designed and made by hand in Italy, and limited to only nine a year. Prices are deep into six-figure territory, which makes the Perana Z-One’s $75,000 asking price seem like a bargain.

If these traditionalists are put off by the cheaper Perana Z-One, they may run from a car like the Pininfarina-designed Tata Prima sedan. Tata Motors is best known for small economy cars, like the tiny Nano hatchback. Shaped like an egg, the bare-bones Nano has a price under $3,000 and goes on sale in India in a matter of weeks. Tata has never built its own luxury car, much less one with an Italian designer label on the fenders.

Pininfarina may be best known for its design work on Ferraris, but the company is saddled with a huge debt, according to this report from Autoblog, and could be facing tough times. Last year, its charismatic chief executive, Andrea Pininfarina, died in a scooter accident.

But Pininfarina could find its footing by teaming with Tata, India’s largest auto manufacturer. The two companies need what the other can offer. Tata could use a boost of sex appeal, while Pininfarina could simply use the work. Ratan Tata, chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group, hinted that the Prima could be the start of a successful business relationship.

He said that he hoped the Prima concept car “will be an indication of what Italy and India can do together,” adding that the Prima could be in production within three years.

For all the talk of a subdued Detroit show, with automakers dispensing with flash and playing soberly to Washington, it was refreshing to see at least one manufacturer pay brave tribute to the auto show’s glitzier heritage.

The event was Monday’s Lamborghini fashion show, compete with many of the standard fashion-show trappings: thumping techno, gaggled photographers and of course models, in this case sporting clothing and accessories from the Lamborghini Arti Marca winter collection.

The four models, dressed in racing-style jackets, cargo pants and tan boots (Lamborghini makes boots!) gave it a game effort. They swung their hips — the women did, at least — and emitted professional pouts to the cameras’ collective pan, all while deftly vamping around and between the three Lamborghinis on display. (For those sticks-in-the-mud who believe a car show is about cars, there were a blue Murcielago LP 640 coupe; a white Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder; and a blue Gallardo LP 560-4 coupe, all painted in matte colors.)

But after little more than five minutes it was over; the music went silent and the models disappeared behind a black curtain. And we were still in Detroit, not Milan or Paris, in the midst of a deep recession.

As the cameras dispersed and the reporters drifted away to cover the next electric-vehicle intro, only a distressing thought remained: If fashion models can’t save us, who can?