Stile Bertone is set to debut its radical Nuccio concept in Geneva, and the design derives its inspiration from the Lancia Stratos Zero concept from 1970.
Penned by the styling house’s design director, Mike Robinson, the mid-engine concept takes its name from Guiseppe Bertone’s nickname. The latter, who was the son of company founder Giovanni Bertone, took over the running of the company after the Second World War, and along the way helped establish the business into a world-renowned one.
The concept isn’t just a wild take on things as to how a modernised, reintepreted Stratos Zero shapes up – apparently, the basis of it is very much a working one. Robinson was quoted as saying that the Nuccio is designed around a very modern, two-seat, mid-engined donor sports car.
Technical innovations include a tensile steel roof that offers a low weight but a high structural resistance. As for the powertrain, the Nuccio is reported to wear a 483 hp 4.3 litre V8 mill. More on the car when Geneva comes, undoubtedly.
Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.
not my cup of tea…..n italdesign make our proton tuah ugly…
do not want.
I don’t see the purpose of doing concepts when first of all, they don’t make a lot sense to the average car buyers (me!) and second of all, by the time the design had reached production, all that is left – if you are lucky – would be those rubbers to bear any semblance to the concept.
Too much 70s spaceship design going on.
Time to make a “Black Moon Rising” remake?
that front headlight/strip reminds me of sony xperia s transparent strip ^^
Looks like Tron
Look, they stole the rear lights from the Tuah!
(Just kidding).
Front reminds me of Geordi La Forge. It’s nice, although the Stratos Zero is even better. Make it so!