2010 Geneva: Bertone creates Pandion-ium

[svgallery name="2010 Geneva Bertone Pandion"] Story and photos by John LeBlanc GENEVA – Full disclosure: When I saw the first PR images of Italian design house Bertone’s Geneva concept, the Alfa Romeo Pandion, it came across as a bit of a rip take-off of BMW’s recent Vision EfficientDynamics. Now that I’ve seen the concept up close and personal like, er, not so much. Yes, the two cars share some basic proportions. But it’s in the details that Bertone goes its own, spectacular way. The Pandion has the kind of impact the Italians use to create on a regular basis with their more free-form, late-60s-early-70s supercar concepts. Ladies and gentlemen, the Pandion is my Best in Show. Where to start? How about those rear-opening scissor/suicide doors? Or the seemingly random grille details across the back of the car? Or the inside? It looks like the work of a giant spider, spinning a web. For a struggling brand at box office, Alfa sure has its followers in the Italian design community. But the Pandion is true concept. Crazy? Wacky? Stupendous? Yes. On sale soon? Not a chance.

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