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Ferrari 308 GT Rainbow Concept
If you’re thing is late period futurism: then there’s little that can beat the Rainbow Concept by Bertone.
With a jangle of angular lines and a manually retractable folding roof, this format not only predates Ferrari’s 458 Italia by a good thirty years, it is saturated in influences and stylistic cues that you can see in so many production cars – from the Fiat X1/9 to the Triumph TR7 and more besides.
Bertone’s Marcello Gandini was given the luxury of not having to consider this concept as a potential sales model for Ferrari – but anyone interested in car design can see how the concept was used to flex the woulds, the ifs and the maybes.
Gotta love the house of Bertone…
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- I can see a Fiat X1/9…
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- …a Lancia Stratos…
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- …a Triumph TR7
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- …and even a first gen MR2…
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- …all wrought in a signature Bertone futurism.
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- The prancing horse is an added bonus.
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