Autoblog: Alfa Romeo Pandion by Bertone

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the coolest automotive concept of recent times:

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Autoblog said:
Even though our colleague Paul Esienstein might not agree, car shows serve a few pretty great purposes. Besides reuniting with old colleagues, pressing manufacturers' flesh and geeking out over (certain) booth babes, it's the wild and well done concept cars that get our juices flowing the fastest. Take the Alfa Romeo Pandion Concept from all-star design house Bertone. It rocks.

When we first saw the Panidon images we were less than impressed. Yeah, the shape was good, as Stile Bertone kept this far out show car classically proportioned (low, long hood, short deck, big wheels). But something didn't quite click. Then we walked past the Pandion during the press conference and did a big double take. Whoa. You know what didn't click? The doors, as they were closed in the press pictures.

First of all, reverse-hinged scissor doors are the coolest Bertone show car feature since they debuted the Lamborghini Countach's front-hinged scissor doors at the 1973 Geneva Motor Show. Not only are the rear-hinged doors cool, they're massive, sticking about ten-feet straight up in the air. In case you've read this far and haven't looked at the above photo (fat chance, we know) the doors include part of the front fender. Very, very cool says us.

Also spectacular is the rear end of this sucker. It looks as if someone tossed a softball through a stained glass window and hit pause. Hundreds of tiny shards of shattered... stuff (carbon fiber, magnesium ? you tell us) appear to be frozen in mid-explosion. It's something TVR might have come up with if a second generation Sagaris had come to fruition. The rear end is different, fabulously so, and to reiterate the title of this here post, it's why we love covering these manic car shows so dang much. Be sure to check out the albino HR Giger-skeleton interior and the flippin' wheels, which replicate the smashing rear end. As they say here in certain parts of Switzerland, tres magnifique! Or, in Alfa Romeo's native tongue, countach!
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Image sources: Jalopnik, Wired.com
 
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Meh. It'll never be made, just another one of those pie-in-the-sky concepts..
 
NOooo. The Estoqe was supposed to get the suicide scissor doors.
 
Front: Want to have sex with.
Back: AUUUUURGGGGGGGHHHH. WTFOMGBBQ! Why?
 
^ That. First [picture] I was like :cool: then I loled :sick:
 
Amazing!
I love the rear of the car, it's like organized mayhem. And the way they incorporated the lights into it. Just plain cool.

We need more outrageous concepts today, they're way more fun than seeing a pre-existing car in ultra-eco mode.
 
That interior is...oddly sexual
 
That's fantastic, I like the broken glass look in the wheels and grille (front/back). And do the seats light up or are they just blue?
 
If there is a spy Decepticon this would be it. its got that organometallic feel to the rear end.
 
You'd deserve cuts for getting it dirty.
 
Those doors will be awfully awkward in a multistory carpark...
You'll have to get in Indiana Jones style which makes this car AWESOME.
 
Looks exactly like that BMW concept.
 
That car had a facelift that went wrong. The eyebrows are supposed to be in the front, not the side.
 
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