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Old 03-19-2012, 12:53 PM
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Re: Italdesign Giugiaro Brivido Hybrid Gullwing Sports Car Debuts At Geneva



Another VW concept, very Giugiaro-esque, and probably designed by ID now under VW's umbrella.

XL1 high efficiency car. Very narrow. unfortunately, very slow. (32 seconds 0-50mph), Very light. (<1800lbs).
But evidently, news today is that it is winter durability testing, likely for production.
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/03/19/g...-testing-on-t/

I want a mold of that body, including the butterfly McLaren F1-style doors, widened, and put on a custom tube chassis, with a twin-turbocharged SVX engine behind the driver, driving the rear wheels. Or rear-engined, and driving all four wheels, like a Carrera 4.

Widened out, with the roof blacked out, that would look so much like a new SVX....

Something with a little bit of this styling, combined with Brivido size and scope... with one driver's side door, and a shorter front passenger door, with another passenger side door just behind it. (3-side-door, like Pininfarina Cambiano), with an Audi A7 or Aston Rapide, or BMW X6-double-opening fastback hatch, with AWD and an automated gearbox, would make for an awesome GT coupe.
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