was an Argentine automotive designer, best known for his work with the Austin Motor Company in Birmingham, England.
Burzi was born around 1900,[1] in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, to a French mother.
[2] By 1929 he was working in Italy for Lancia, but was forced to leave after drawing cartoons belittling Benito Mussolini that were published in several newspapers.
[3] Lancia initially moved Burzi to their coachbuilding firm in Paris, but he was recruited by Lord Austin in 1929 to work at Longbridge in Birmingham after Austin received a recommendation from Vincenzo Lancia, whom he met while travelling on the Queen Mary to the United States.
[4] Burzi's Italian background saw him interned on the Isle of Man when Italy entered the Second World War,[3] but he was released in 1943 and started work on designing the Austin A40.