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Bertone Concept

The upcoming Geneva International Motor Show will host the world preview of a concept car from Bertone that interprets a classic theme for the company: uncompromising Italian sportiness as a means to achieve possession of an exclusive object, and supremely enjoyable driving. The car's architecture is based on a two-box configuration, onto which the features of a true sports car are elegantly grafted: an impressive, sloping bonnet, a tapered, drop-shaped cabin, and a short, muscular rear.

Where the engineering is concerned, we should mention the aluminium frame and the powerful 400 bhp V8 engine, both borrowed from BMW.

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Edag Engineering
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Edag Cinema /D Concept

The spacious sense of a film theatre has been conveyed to the interior of the Cinema 7D for each of the seven passengers. The innovative placement of the seats adds for the first time the third dimension to the passenger cab. The rows of seats rising towards the back of the vehicle - like in the cinema - are the principle feature of the Cinema 7D. The driver and front seat passenger have their seats in the first row, two more seats are available in the second row. If as many as seven people can take their places in the Cinema 7D, there are three more box seats reserved in the third row of seats.

In addition, the seats have deliberately been staggered with respect to each other so that all of the passengers have an unhindered view in the direction of travel. Every one of the passengers can experience and enjoy travel in this new type of van - just like the driver.

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Guigaro
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Giugaro Mory Project

The Moray project embodies the homage that Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugiaro wish to pay to the fifty-year era of the Chevrolet Corvette, the supreme symbol of the American sports car.

Realized without hesitation on Corvette mechanics and chassis, the outcome of seeking out a sports car designed as an elegant extreme leaps into the limelight carrying a pure profile, designed as though touched by drifting tides with long and slender front lights, bringing immediately to the mind the Moray, the English term for the eel-type fish, muraema helena, found in Mediterranean waters.

Cool, sleek and supremely agile, of exceptional beauty and legerdemain like the sea creature from which it takes its name, the Moray is fitted with a powerful Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine, the longitude front-mounted six-liter, which reaches command of more than 400 horsepower, combined with a perfect balance ensured from the ground up by Michelin Pilot sport 335/30 ZR20 rear tyres.

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IVM Automotive and Edscha
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IVM/Edscha Lumina

The highlight of the Luminus is a panorama roof of a special kind: it covers exactly 1.46 square metres of glazing. With an overall length of 1,750 millimetres, this joint product of the divisions Convertible Roof Systems and Vehicle Design (IVM Automotive) takes up almost the entire length of the roof of the stretched A-Class. The movable element of the three glass elements is fully 793 mm long. Luminus’ biggest innovation: the guide rail for the sliding roof is incorporated in the roof rails. It enables applying glazing to the vehicle roof almost across its entire width of 870 millimetres. The roof was fitted to the vehicle as a complete unit including roof rails – a method that can be adapted to any other vehicle featuring roof rails.

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Valmet
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Valmet Concept

Valmet Automotive presents at the Geneva Motor Show a new retractable concept car with glass roof. The Thunderbird Retractable Glass Roof has a fully automatic retractable roof with two glass panels. The structural parts of the panels are made of sheet metal and fully lined inside. The concept provides two models in one, top down a traditional convertible without restrictions and top up a hard top.

The fully automatic roof mechanism is robust and simple. The roof is operated by an electro-hydraulic actuation system. The roof folds smoothly into a compact package behind the seats. The automatically operated hard tonneau cover conceals the roof completely.

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