Bertone Teases New Supercar To Herald The Model’s Revival

Bertone, the legendary coach builders and designers behind classics just like the Alfa Romeo Giulia Dash GT Veloce, the Lamborghini Countach, the Citroën XM, and numerous others, is being introduced again from the useless by two brothers and has now teased a really particular supercar to rejoice that revival.

Based in 1912 by Giovanni Bertone and divided right into a coachbuilder and a design home by Nuccio Bertone following World Battle II, in 2014 the corporate fell on exhausting occasions and declared chapter. In 2020, although, it was bought by Jean-Franck and Mauro Ricci, who say they’ve greater than 38 mixed years of expertise working with engineers, a lot of whom are within the automotive sector.

“By designing legendary automobiles such because the Lamborghini Miura and Countach, and the Alfa Romeo Coupe Bertone, Bertone has a well-earned place within the automotive historical past books, which right this moment are being dusted off to make approach for a brand new, revolutionary chapter,” they are saying.

Learn: Alfa Romeo’s 1968 Carabo Idea Is Magnificent Even By Right this moment’s Requirements

That remark hints on the new product the corporate has began teasing in current weeks. Nonetheless lined in shadows, the brand new automobile marks “the daybreak of a brand new period for modern Bertone.”

It would additionally mark an vital milestone in Bertone historical past, as the corporate’s posts on Instagram and LinkedIn recommend that the automobile is being designed to rejoice the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the model.

Bertone says that the brand new car will probably be an “immediate basic” and its silhouette is harking back to mid-engine supercars comparable to the Lamborghini Huracán. Intriguingly, the model additionally posted pictures of the 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo idea automobile. One of many wedge-shaped automobiles that might come to outline design within the ’70s and ’80s, it was penned by Marcello Gandini.

In an Instagram put up, the corporate refers to it as a “dream automobile” and asks “what will probably be Bertone’s subsequent dream automobile?” Whereas the fashionable supercar teased by Bertone is much from an identical to the Carabo, its virtually pixelated taillights are considerably harking back to the mid-century idea automobile’s checkerboard rear fascia.

Up to now, there was no indication as to what sort of powertrain the brand new automobile will function, and an official date for the revealing has not been set. It appears cheap to imagine that it is going to be unveiled earlier than the 12 months is out.