Alfa Romeo Pandion Extreme Sport Car

After an absence of two years of the international scene again Bertone the Geneva Motor Show, unveiling a concept car making its world premiere here, the Pandion, an aggressive but beautiful coupe designed as a tribute to the anniversary of Alfa Romeos’ a hundred years.

The Pandion: an extreme sports car and controversial in the manner typical of Bertone. The concept car’s size (4,620 mm long, 1971 mm wide, 1230 mm high, 2,850 mm wheelbase) offers a sporty compact external dimensions with a sense of great sports car interior, all controlled by a 4.7-liter, 450 hp 8 – cylinder Alfa Romeo engine.

The Pandion is the first car produced by Mike Robinson in his new role as Director of Brand and Design at Bertone. A pure “dream car”, the Pandion takes its rightful place as a member of the family history Bertone Alfa Romeo: Cars have always been style icons, influencing the history of Italian craftsmanship car and excellent design quality, showing themselves as an indisputable reference points for the entire world of car design.

The name comes from the animal world, as Pandion haliaetus is the scientific name of an osprey, a hawk nesting sea and live in coastal areas. The designers, led by Mike Robinson, was inspired by the wings of this predator to invent the spectacular opening door mechanisms, and marks the hawks facial Alfa project the feeling of traditional family in the new era of design .

Pandion design is based on a concept called Robinson “skin and Marcos” – a new interpretation of the duality inherent in the age of 100 Alfa Romeo logo. “Skin” refers to the serpent in the logo, representing the world famous Italian excellence in fine form, seductive, and “Setting” refers to the cross in the logo, which represents the mechanical excellence of the cars high Italian race performance.

The combination of the two has become a dynamic area of the search for an ideal balance as a result of the tension between opposites: the technology and the sensual, rational and emotional, architectural design and sculptural form, structural and organic, industrial excellence and craft excellence.

According to this interpretation, the vibrant energy in all Alfa Romeo is represented by “vertebral structure (or” Pandions Framework ‘), which traverses the length of the car on the grid in the form of V in the nose of the car to the shape of V obtained from car tail across the interior as a structural element that supports the visually aesthetic surrounding layer (or ’skin’).

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