Concepts
A concept car has no history to recite and no spec sheet worth the paper — it's an authored idea, frozen at one show. So these files are about the idea and the person who drew it — the design house, the designer, the language they were inventing, and what it became.
5 concepts on file · more incoming
Bertone Lamborghini Marzal
A four-seat brief answered with a glass-walled spaceship — the car a 27-year-old Marcello Gandini used to announce himself, hexagons and all.
Bertone Alfa Romeo Carabo
The wedge that started the wedge era — and the first car in the world with scissor doors. Gandini's beetle-green doorstop, built in ten weeks.
Pininfarina Ferrari 512S Modulo
A Le Mans race car turned flying saucer — Paolo Martin's two-shell Pininfarina spaceship, entered by sliding the whole roof forward.
BMW BMW Turbo
A gullwing wedge that was really a rolling safety lab — Paul Bracq's orange-and-red 1972 concept that pointed straight at the M1.
Italdesign Maserati Boomerang
The purest folded-paper wedge ever drawn — a running Bora reduced to intersecting flat planes, with a steering wheel that spun around its own instruments.