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1970 Porsche Tapiro Concept

Does the BMW M1 Homage concept we saw yesterday try just a little too hard to impress? Does a bear shit in the woods? The gaping maw of modern styling is chewing through heritage designs at an astonishing rate, and starting to look at eras not often remembered fondly for its great cars. Just because the malaise era produced blasé cars doesn't mean there wasn't cool styling. It was 1970 and a young Giorgetto Giugiaro had joined Ital Design and, as his fourth concept car, produced the Porsche Tapiro. The Tapiro was based on the Porsche 914/6 but managed to break all of the Porsche molds.

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1:40 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
4,471 views, 51 comments

Latest by n/a: Comment on 1970 Porsche Tapiro Concept forget that tiger in a tank, porsche had a real leopard. more »

geneva motor show

Giugiaro Continues To Tease, Releases Another Mystery Concept Photo Ahead of Geneva

Giugiaro has released another teaser image of its forthcoming Geneva concept car. So far nameless, commenter Mark Miller has made an educated guess that it'll be called Quaranta - Italian for forty. 2008 is ItalDesign's 40th birthday. We also predict some sort of hypothetical green power plant, you know the kind that is supposedly capable of saving the world, but is really just some hot air stored under a heavily tinted engine cover. All the speculation will end on March 4th, when the vehicle is officially revealed at the Geneva Motor Show. [Via Giugiaro]


8:45 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Wes Siler
506 views, 7 comments

Latest by Drew P Draws: Didn't Bertone design something like this every year from 1968-1990? I mean, I know Giorgetto got his start there, but how about something fresh? more »

jalopnik fantasy garage

Maserati Bora

With last weeks whopping, landslide inclusion of the McLaren F1 (96.8% yes) we asked ourselves, "How many more hot-shit performance monsters do we really need in this here Fantasy Garage?" Along with the F1, we've got the king of the world Veyron and the over-performing Ford GT. We've even (somehow) still got the RUF RT12. With that in mind we've decided to slow things down (a bit) and ask you to contemplate a true heart string plucker, the amazing Maserati Bora. And actually for its time, the Bora could fly. Have a look. More »

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12:00 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
5,497 views, 101 comments

Latest by n/a: @myself. Gah. Look closer next time, it's a Bora after all... more »

concept cars

Geneva Showcase: Giugiaro VAD.HO

What happens when a famous Italian design house builds a conceptual two seater around BMW's Hydrogen 7 motor? Hilarity is bound to ensue. Actually, ItalDesign-Giugiaro's VAD.HO concept is less hilarious than future-slick. It looks like one of those Pinewood Derby cars built by some kid's dad who works at NASA. It's got an asymmetrical layout, with the laterally oriented cockpit to one side, and the BMW liquid hydro engine to the other (the whole thing is about the size of a Ferrari Maranello). The cockpit has some neato video terminals, with an interface and optical technologies designed for aerospace applications. All controls can be manipulated by joysticks; one in the rear works only with the IT system. Aside from being a tech piece, the VAD.HO is also the showcase car for ItalDesign's new identity, which trades on the name of its founder, Giorgietto Giugiaro. – Mike Spinelli More »

7:41 AM on Tue Mar 6 2007
By Mike Spinelli
2,221 views, 4 comments

Latest by CUL8R: That would be cool if the hid a camera on the back of the drivers seat that was a little lower ;) so that the driver could see everything. more »

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The Most Beautiful Ford in the World: 1967-68 Ford OSI 20m TS

While our American parents were smoking dope in the back of their Mustangs and blasting the Beach Boys, our hipper, richer European parents were blasting the Beach Boys and smoking dope in the backs of these Italian-bodied hotties. OSI, located in Turin, was an Italian Design firm that bent metal for companies such as Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Innocenti. The man who designed the Type III Karmann Ghia, Sergio Sartorelli, penned this triple-sexy American-Italian hybrid. Only around 2000 were produced. Please don't bother looking up specs or performance numbers, as they are depressing (e.g., 0-100 km/h — 62 mph — in 14 seconds). Instead, just make the jump and drool. More »

12:00 PM on Mon Dec 11 2006
By Jonny Lieberman
2,180 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: I registered just to say that I saw one of these for the first time while in Tokyo. I was looking out the window while at a restaurant, when I was like "whuthafuk?" The car was beautiful, silver with a more »

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Jalopnik Late-Night: Photo Fun With Autoblog Frank!

That's me, half-loaded, pretending to share a laugh with the master of retrofuturism, J Mays, at the Italdesign Giugiaro Mustang launch party. I'm apologizing in advance about the chest hair. When I drink, I get warm. And Ford was handing out the free booze, not me... – Jonny Lieberman More »

11:16 PM on Thu Dec 7 2006
By Jonny Lieberman
139 views, 12 comments