Your wife or girlfriend needs to run some errands and your Quattroporte sedan really won't do the job. Where do you turn? What do you do?
Fifty years ago, the coachbuilder Touring was famous for its Superleggera (super lite) frames/bodies on both Italian and English supercars. After the firm all but disappeared, a group of investors recently revived the company. Below is a CAD image and some photos of the final product of their design for the Maserati Quattroporte. The car is known as the Bellagio.
The photos were made at last week's Concorso Villa d'Este on Lake Como. The event still maintains a pace and modest degree of charm that evaporated at Pebble Beach some thirty years ago. The crowd's attire at Villa d'Este has really changed in the last few years though. America's export of "casual" wear is increasingly evident. Blazers, if and when you sighted one, were the dressiest items and ties were nowhere to be found.
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Not to be outdone, a middle-eastern gent hired Studios M and Torino to collaborate on a similar design for the Quattroporte. I don't have any photos of the final work. But, here are some CAD images from a press release not too long ago. This exercise was dubbed the Cinqueporte. It adds to the patron's already impressive collection of Italian shooting brakes.
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Fifty years ago, the coachbuilder Touring was famous for its Superleggera (super lite) frames/bodies on both Italian and English supercars. After the firm all but disappeared, a group of investors recently revived the company. Below is a CAD image and some photos of the final product of their design for the Maserati Quattroporte. The car is known as the Bellagio.
The photos were made at last week's Concorso Villa d'Este on Lake Como. The event still maintains a pace and modest degree of charm that evaporated at Pebble Beach some thirty years ago. The crowd's attire at Villa d'Este has really changed in the last few years though. America's export of "casual" wear is increasingly evident. Blazers, if and when you sighted one, were the dressiest items and ties were nowhere to be found.
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Not to be outdone, a middle-eastern gent hired Studios M and Torino to collaborate on a similar design for the Quattroporte. I don't have any photos of the final work. But, here are some CAD images from a press release not too long ago. This exercise was dubbed the Cinqueporte. It adds to the patron's already impressive collection of Italian shooting brakes.
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