{"id":28098,"date":"2012-09-12T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T09:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=28098"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:53:12","slug":"bertone-testudo-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/bertone-testudo-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertone Testudo Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’ve mentioned the Testudo<\/a> before, in the context of its amazingly mancave-ish interior. But we had a good look at this amazing car again recently and worth it was sharing some more pics.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons we think it’s such an amazing creation is its very conception. Apparently the car, built as a design study to be presented at the Geneva show of 1963, was designed and produced in only two months.<\/p>\n

Boldly infused with a very American style futurism, it came with a rear-mounted air-cooled boxer engine – as well as that forward tipping greenhouse canopy and that interior of course, straight out of The Jetsons.<\/p>\n

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The webs reckon it was driven to the show \u2013 a fully functioning prototype then \u2013 by the great Mr Nuccio Bertone himself.<\/p>\n

Considering this thing of dashing beauty was built on the frame of a very workaday Chevrolet Corvair<\/a> – we reckon it’s a truly brilliant example of passionate, focussed – if whimsical design. Whether or not Bertone was able to successfully court the American market is another question. Let’s hear it for the boldness of Bertone!<\/p>\n\n\t\t