Touring Superleggera A8GCS Berlinetta was revealed in the flesh at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show after being previewed at the Concours d'Elegance. At the Festival Automobile in Paris last month, a panel comprised of designers, car experts and former Formula 1 driver Alain Prost awarded the Maserati A8GCS Berlinetta Touring the most beautiful supercar of the year. Television network Eurosport fielded over one million votes from viewers for the competition. Viewers’ choices included the Bugatti Sport Veyron, BMW 750i and Lotus Evora.
2010 Touring Superleggera A8GCS Berlinetta
Now that is how it is accomplished. The Touring Superleggera A8GCS Berlinetta is a Maserati Gran Turismo rebodied with classic GT proportions and shapes. The result is classically stunning, like a Nineteen Fifties Maserati re-interpreted with twenty first century technology.
Based on the Maserati Coupé GranSport mechanics, the A8GCS Berlinetta Touring represents the high performance sports car concept, with small dimensions, state-of-the-art constructive technology and perfect stylish synthesis between factory tradition and advanced aesthetic criteria.
Unlike the Bentley Flying Star shooting brake that is additionally from Touring Superleggera, the Berlinetta isn't always destined for a nicely-heeled car nut. The organization created it mainly to exhibit its coachbuilding skills. If they've their manner, they'll be turning the Maserati Gran Turismo and different exotic motors into motors which might be even greater extraordinary, luxurious and customized.
The new A8GCS Berlinetta Touring has been designed by the young Belgian dressmaker Louis de Fabribeckers, in price of the Touring styling department. The A8GCS Berlinetta Touring traces aren't affected by time or fashion: the car is characterised by way of a soft aggressiveness originated by way of the proper balance among the the front stop, immediately derived from competitions, and the harmonious and fluent flanks reminding of the exquisite Alfa Romeo, Isotta Fraschini and Lancia Flying Star of the Nineteen Thirties, an exceptional collection created by means of Touring and still considered the first-rate interpretation of Marinetti and Boccioni?S Futurism.
The Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera style is first expressed through perfecly balanced volumes (reduced the front overhang, front imperative engine and huge rear overhang). The end result is a dynamic form that doesn?T want a decreased waistline. Moreover, the horizontal improvement of strains create a herbal beauty.
The sporty look of the car is underlined with the aid of the aggregate among bonnet and front grille. An detail dashing ahead the opposite volumes. Hence the lateral strains of the body: the lower line ends at the rear wheelarch and the upper line dissolves in the rear cease of the auto. Together they devise a dynamic sail shape, as on Flying Stars.
Of route, also the maximum successful automobile layout isn't sufficient to make an alive and whole object. It should be mixed with amazing dynamic features, derived from cutting-edge technical solutions. For the prototype A8GCS Berlinetta Touring, Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera studied and designeda body in advanced composite substances, capable of supply the automobile lightness, structural strenght and performance normal of top granturismo and glaringly respecting all global protection and environmental rules. The result is apparent: the style protoype A8GCS Berlinetta Touring is able to input small series production, gaining right now a top area a few of the first-class sports motors.
The A8GCS is a strict -seater, in contrast to the car on which it's based which functions a 2 2 seating format. Touring Superleggera have made enormous adjustments to the car's bodywork while nevertheless retaining similar proportions. The styling info like the minimalist chrome trim and conventional cord wheels deliver the car a distinctive unfashionable vibe, even as also not being unnecessarily nostalgic.
"We desired a sturdy venture" - says the Belgian Head of Design of Touring Superleggera, Louis de Fabribeckers - "I drew from the stylistic heritage of Touring the paintings of surfaces and additionally this sinusoidal line throughout the facet of the Berlinetta".
The Touring Superleggera A8GCS Berlinetta is four.2 metres lengthy and most effective 1.2 metres high. The engineers are aiming for a 1,500 kg (three,307 lb) weight for the completed automobile - one hundred eighty kgs (four hundred lbs) lighter than the Maserati GranSport.
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