Bertone needs to make wedges nice once more

Of all of the unheard-of manufacturers being resurrected day-after-day, here is one we’re fascinated with. Bertone is on the best way again after a few many years of tough going. Giovanni Bertone based the Italian design home in 1912, however it was the postwar years whereas being run by Nuccio Bertone that the corporate penned one legend after one other. Lancia Stratos, Lamborghini Miura and Countach, Ferrari Dino 308 GT4, Fiat X1/9, and so forth. A 2014 chapter led to being purchased by Mauro and Jean-Frank Ricci, brothers who personal an auto trade consultancy referred to as Akka that is labored with Aston Martin, Ford, and the Volkswagen Group. Their solely public showcase with Bertone to this point was the 2016 Good Bertone, an electrical two-seater with greater than 3 times the horsepower of the usual Good Electrical Drive. We do not know what the Ricci brothers are planning, however a video at Bertone’s new web site and an Instagram account inform us, “The timeless icon is reborn.”

The Bertone Nuccio was the agency’s ultimate idea earlier than chapter, a a hundredth anniversary celebration that tried to mix Bertone’s hallmark thrives right into a wedgy berlinetta with out a lot success. This new effort appears to be like extra promising. Based mostly on the coupe within the teased picture, we’ll count on one thing supercar-ish. Based mostly on the rear diffuser design within the teaser video and what could possibly be two elongated exhaust ports, it is doable there’s an inside combustion engine behind the cockpit. The arrowhead facet vent remembers the 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo and 1970 Lancia Stratos Zero ideas, each simply as necessary as any of the roadgoing automobiles. And the video reveals a ton of detailing, particularly across the LED headlights and taillights and the wheels. 

This 12 months being Bertone’s a hundred and tenth anniversary and “110” that includes prominently within the teasers, it should not be lengthy earlier than we discover out what “The daybreak of a brand new period for up to date Bertone” means.