Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour ConceptFiled under: Coupe, Performance, Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini, Design/Style, Luxury, Off-Road
Coachbuilt Italian Finery Rides High In The Mediterranean
Apparently, the appropriate gift to give for the 45th anniversary of almost anything is a blue sapphire stone. I cannot imagine
Autoblog readers craving a story about that, so I'm glad that
Italdesign Giugiaro spared me that gig and instead created this truly interesting
Parcour concept to mark its 45th anniversary.
Parcour is named after the generally urban activity of French origin (spelled "parkour"), of throwing one's (presumably) agile body off walls and railings in an anti-gravity freestyle momentum ballet. This sometimes ends up being broadcast on YouTube, particularly to show a parkour session gone horribly wrong, with the star taking a metal banister in the
cojones or receiving a fetching bouquet of twisted fingers. Clearly design boss at Giugiaro, Fabrizio Giugiaro (son of legend Giorgetto), and his squad had more coordinated good parkour-ing in mind when they let me drive their cool creation on the island of Sardinia. (I live not far away, so it's a one-hour flight with the herds on a low-cost airline.)
It's been a while since a traditional Turin house created a million-dollar running prototype or showcar that it felt like entrusting to a journalist or two. Recent years have been distracting, to say the least, for the likes of
Bertone,
Pininfarina and Giugiaro, as the global crisis threatened to suck them under for good. Italdesign-Giugiaro did a very wise thing in May 2010 and allowed longtime partner
Volkswagen Group to
buy a majority stake, thus securing the future of Giorgetto Giugiaro's dream factory. But all of these dealings have put drives like this on hold for a bit while all t's were crossed and i's dotted.
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