Our friends from the Yellow Wheels automotive site came back today from the 2010 Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, positively bubbling with the amazingness of the concept vehicles on display there. Top among the YW raves was the Pandion flip-up-door car, from the revered Italian design house Bertone. In the words of the Yellow Wheels pit crew:
“Bertone Pandion Concept docks in Geneva Show space-station. 100 years of Alfa Romeos would be good cause for celebration, so Italian design house Bertone decided to mark the occasion by taking the mechanicals of an Alfa Romeo 8C and plonking a body from the planet Zorg onto its chassis. Zorg is a place where strange creatures fused from old-tech and future-bio wander fearfully. Plant-like skeletal structures weave a protective internal cage while external clamshells protect space warriors from the rain of carbon shard, mini-meteorites in the scorching acid atmosphere. A white organic mesh encapsulates the Avatar-style seating and contrasts with the sharp menacing detailing of the wheels and rear thrusters...”
Yes, well...! Of course you sci-fi movie-buffs may remember that Zorg was the character Gary Oldman played in the classic 1997 movie The Fifth Element and here’s another dose of Zorgness - we reckon Oldman would have looked just perfect greasing down a highway in this Bertone design. It’s a great looker, but of course five-metre long flip-up doors are not so practical for garage parking. In 100 years time, maybe the wheels will be superfluous, with anti-gravity units taking their place, so the Pandion could park in mid-air with no roof space needed.
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