Bertone, one of Italy’s legendary styling houses, is in Geneva this week celebrating 75 years of collaboration with Alfa Romeo with Pandion, an aggressive yet beautiful coupé designed as a tribute to Alfa Romeo’s one hundred year anniversary. It marks a triumphant return to the Swiss motor show after a two-year absence for Bertone which in the meantime went to the brink of its existence as the failure of its contract manufacturing division to attract new business pulled Gruppo Bertone down.
Instead with Lilli Bertone, the widow of Nuccio Bertone, firmly back in the driving seat having emerged on top in a bitter family feud and with the Grugliasco-based contract manufacturing facilities sold off to Fiat Group, Stile Bertone, now faces the future with optimism and with a new design team in place. It's first project is Pandion.
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