Bertone’s Futuristic Car: Bertone Mantide Concept

Designer:
Jason Castriota

Developer:
Bertone Studio

Bertone unveiled its extreme concept car codenamed “Project M” at Shanghai Motor Show. Its design is inspired from Corvette ZR1.

Features:

• Interplay of convex and concave shapes and the jet-style teardrop canopy with butterfly opening doors, similar to that of th Pininfarina P4/5, a previous creation of Jason Castriota.
• Extensive testing in a full scale wind tunnel, resulting in a drag coefficient reduced by 25% (Cd 0.298) and a 30% improvement in down force.
• Use of carbon fiber for the body panels, interior trim/seats and wheels allowed to reduce the total weight by 100kg.
• 0-100 km/h acceleration in 3.2 sconds and a top speed of 351 km/h.

According to the first information the working prototype will be privately unveiled on April 23rd at the Balocco near Turin and will be on public display at the Concours d’Elegance at Villa d’Este.

Developer’s words,

Mantide has been designed and engineered in collaboration with the renowned Danisi Engineering and “aims to be the world’s greatest street legal performance car, wrapped in an iconic and radical Stile Bertone design.”

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