High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Hruska (July 2, 1915 in Vienna - December 4, 1995 in Turin) was an Austrian automobile designer and engineer, most famous for his design of various Alfa Romeo cars. After graduating Vienna University of Technology he worked for Magirus in Ulm (1935 38) and Porsche in Stuttgart (1938 45), developing the Kdf-Wagen (1939) and Tiger I tank (1943). In Meran he and Carlo Abarth established a Porsche dealership (1945), and shortly after joined Piero Dusio in the Turin-based Cisitalia racing car project (1946 49). Hruska joined Finmeccanica (1951 54), consulting on the Alfa Romeo 1900. At Alfa Romeo (1954 59) he assisted Orazio Satta Puliga in the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, before joining Simca and Fiat (1960 67), working on the Simca 1000 and Fiat 124/Fiat 128. Hruska then designed the Alfa Romeo Alfasud and established a new plant in Pomigliano d'Arco near Naples (1967 73). Since then he was in a design firm in Arese (1974 80) and at I.DE.AInstitute in Turin (1980-).