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The theme of the 1992 Turin International Motor Show was 'Man and the environment', and Bertone, who had been urged by many to come up wîth an electric vehicle, captured the attention of experts and critics wîth the Blitz. This prototype was an open two-seater show car which experiments both wîth electric traction and wîth new materials for the chassis and bodywork. To accomplish the desired 'lightness', the body was created by Albatech in 25CD4 steel tubing, fixed wîth fibreglass panels wîth epoxy resin and a Roacell core. The bodywork is entirely composed of a composite material (epoxy glass and autoclave-produced nomex), wîth interiors in carbon. The design of the body recalls the exciting open two-seaters wîth sporting aspirations, and this is blended wîth a lovely retro touch of out-of-line seating, wîth the driving seat slightly in front of the passenger seat. Another feature of great impact was the solution created for the doors, which are front-hinged and open vertically, a concept taken from the Alfa Romeo Carabo created by Bertone in 1968 and which had subsequently been used on a succession of other models.Source - Bertone
