ItaliaspeedTV – 80th Geneva Motor Show: Bertone Press Conference & Premiere of the Pandion

Bertone, one of Italys legendary styling houses, is in Geneva this week celebrating 75 years of collaboration with Alfa Romeo with Pandion, an aggressive yet beautiful coupé designed as a tribute to Alfa Romeos one hundred year anniversary. It marks a triumphant return to the Swiss motor show after a two-year absence for Bertone which in the meantime went to the brink of its existence as the failure of its contract manufacturing division to attract new business pulled Gruppo Bertone down. Instead with Lilli Bertone, the widow of Nuccio Bertone, firmly back in the driving seat having emerged on top in a bitter family feud and with the Grugliasco-based contract manufacturing facilities sold off to Fiat Group, Stile Bertone, now faces the future with optimism and with a new design team in place. It’s first project is Pandion. Revealed in Geneva yesterday the Pandion is an extreme and controversial sports car in typical Bertone fashion. The size of the concept car (4620 mm in length, 1971 mm wide, 1230 mm high, 2850 mm wheelbase) offers a compact sports car external dimensions with a large sports car interior feeling, all powered by a 4.7 litre, 450 CV 8-cylinder Alfa Romeo engine. The partnership between Bertone and Alfa Romeo dates back to the early 1930s: it is one of the most fascinating partnerships in the history of car design due to its incisive draughtsmanship and formal elegance. These characteristics have been applied to 23 models, including one-offs and production …
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