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2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

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Bertone returns to the Geneva Motor Show 2010, after a two year absence from the international scene, unveiling a concept car that makes its world premiere here: the Pandion, an aggressive yet beautiful coupé designed as a tribute to Alfa Romeos’ one hundred year anniversary. The Alfa Romeo Pandion Concept: an extreme and controversial sports car in typical Bertone fashion. The size of the concept car (4620 mm in length, 1971 mm wide, 1230 mm high, 2850 mm wheelbase) offers a compact sports car external dimensions with a large sports car interior feeling. Bertone Pandion Design Sketchoffers a compact sports car external dimensions with a large sports car interior feeling, all powered by a 4.7 litre, 450 CV 8-cylinder Alfa Romeo engine.

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

The call comes from the animal global, as Pandion Haliaetus is the scientific call for an Osprey: a sea hawk that nests and lives in coastal regions. The designers, led by way of Mike Robinson, have drawn concept from the wings of this predator to invent the amazing door opening mechanisms, and from the hawks' facial markings to venture the conventional Alfa own family feeling into the subsequent era of layout.

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

The designers, led through Mike Robinson, have drawn suggestion from the wings of this predator to invent the dazzling door opening mechanisms, and from the hawks? Facial markings to challenge the conventional Alfa circle of relatives feeling into the next generation of layout. In almost a century of Bertone subculture, it is not the first time that natural wonders have stimulated the names of concept automobiles. Just consider the Corvair Testudo (1963) and, with the aid of no twist of fate, the Alfa Romeo Canguro (1964), Carabo (1968) and Delfino (1983).

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

The Pandion?S taut and muscular frame is the end result of an authentic interpretation of the Alfa Romeo badge, in which the man-ingesting snake depicted there represents the appeal of elegance (what we call the ?Skin?), and the aristocratic move symbolises the rigour of rational thought, the technological component (what we call the ?Frame?).

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

According to this interpretation, the Pandion?S design is, like each Alfa Romeo, a perfect synthesis between ?Skin and Frame?, an excellent balance due to a tension among opposites: era and sensuality, rationality and intuition, structure and sculpture, structuralism and organicism, industrial excellence and incredible craftsmanship.

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

The design of the Pandion is based on a concept Robinson calls: "Skin & Frame” - a new interpretation of the inherent duality in the 100 year old Alfa Romeo logo. “Skin” refers to the snake in the logo, representing the world renowned Italian excellence in beautiful, seductive forms; and “Frame” refers to the cross in the logo, representing the mechanical excellence in high performance Italian race cars. The combination of the two has now become a dynamic dial searching for an ideal balance resulting from the tension between opposites: technology and sensuality, rational and emotional, architectural layout and sculptural form, structural and organic, industrial excellence and artisan excellence.

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

According to this interpretation, the vibrant energy in every Alfa Romeo is represented by Pandions’ spinal structure (or ‘Frame’), which crosses the length of the car from the V-shaped grille in the nose of the car to the V-shaped bumper in the tail of the car, crossing the interior as a visually aesthetic structural element which supports the surrounding shell (or ‘Skin’).

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

The Alfa Romeo Pandion Concept has the profile of a true sports car, with no room for compromise. The architectural layout is 'cab rearward', meaning the passenger compartment is positioned towards the rear of the car and the long bonnet pushes the car's visual centre rearward. The body side visually connects the sensuous front end with the razor-edged rear by means of an extremely long flowing side window which stretches from front wheel arch to rear, enhancing the excellent accessibility of this low-bodied sports coupé.

2010 Alfa Romeo Sports Car Bertone Pandion Concept

Since sports cars are traditionally difficult to get in and out of, this important ergonomic activity has been facilitated with an extra wide door opening to make up for the low roofline. This new graphic formula not only adds a striking new visual division between the upper and lower parts of the body, but it also offers an incredible panorama window for passengers inside. The strong diagonal dark-light division in the rear of the side view accentuates the powerful rear wheel drive layout and draws special attention to the hidden door opening mechanism.

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