Bertone created the most spectacular Lamborghini’s ever, the Miura, the Espada and the Countach, but the Bertone designers also created a few ‘special’ Lamborghini’s, the Bravo was one of them and the Athon which was presented on the 1980 Turin Motor Show, was the next. It was designed by Marc Deschamps, who became Marcello Gandini’s…
We have published the news about an auction that listed a total of 79 cars that were on display in the official Bertone museum at the Stile Bertone headquarter in Caprie, among them a few amazing Lamborghini like an original 1967 Miura, a 1987 Countach and the one of a kind Genesis, but also a silver metallic…
Nuccio Bertone passed away on February 26. 1997 after transforming a small coachbuilding facility into one of the world’s most important automotive design companies with a massive factory in Grugliasco that could build 70,000 cars per year (right now there are Maserati being built there after the factory was sold back in 2011 already) The…
At the Villa d’Este event on Saturday May 21. 2011 RM Auctions was able to offer some extremely important prototypes made by Bertone, sadly the Bertone heirs weren’t able to safe these unique cars from the curator hence they became available to the public at this auction. Lot 109 was the well known Athon prototype,…
The internal number P140 was used for the successor of the Jalpa, whose production had been halted in 1988. The P140, probably named ‘Cala’, was designed with one goal in mind, superior styling, the engine and chassis were made inferior to the exterior styling of this car. At that time, the German and Japanese cars…
Bertone presented study 114, the new Lamborghini Bravo, on the 1974 Turin Auto show, it was designated to be the successor of the P300 Urraco, and used the same mechanicals. The Bravo was a very low-slung car, with several stylistic references to the Countach, the new styled wheels on the Bravo, among other things would…
On April 21, 1988 at the Turin Motor Show, the Genesis was first shown to the public, after some 30,000 man hours had been invested in it by Bertone. Marc Deschamps, chief designer of Centro Stile Bertone, mostly designed the Genesis and it looked like a sporty mini-van. However, the overall impression was one of…
