Sbarro Alfa Romeo Concept Geneva 2006

Sbarro's radical concept of a mid-engine AlfaRomeo at the Geneva Motor Show

Based on the theme of “interpreting Alfa’s glorious history”, this fully operational prototype, is one of my personal favourites at this years Geneva Auto Show. Although Sbarro concepts aren’t usually characterized as setting trends, this prototype revives Alfa’s fabulous styling history.

Designed as a mid-engined sports coupe, the concept is far more extreme than anything to come out in the future from Alfa Romeo’s own Centro Stile. Included on the Sbarro show car is an interesting approach to the front spoiler, incorporating an aerofoil positioned across the nose, broken only by the traditional Alfa Romeo ‘scudetto’ grille. The nose section also feature large individual scoops for cooling the front brakes, as well as spolier moulded into the bottom of each fender.

The concept car also incorporates gull wing doors, the top section of which being fabricated totally from glass, separated only by a central beam to provide an H pattern when viewed from above. Generous rear intakes, similar in shape to those on the Ferrari Enzo, feed air to Alfa’s 3.2 JTS V6 engine

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2007 Dodge Avenger

Dodge’s Geneva Presentation Video unveils a new model, which may be the new Avenger

While I was watching the press conference video of Dodge Geneva Presentation, I noticed something very interesting. At the 29th second of the video (Exactly after the clip of the new 2007 Jeep Compass and the Autoweek magazine cover with the Chrysler 300C) there are two snap shots of an unknown car which is neither a Caliber nor a Charger.

To prove this, look at the rear and front view of these two models and compare them with the video pictures. This unknown car may very well be Dodge’s new mid sized sedan, Avenger, programmed for production latter this year or early 2007.

To see the video click here: LINK

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Fioravanti Skill Concept – Fiat Grande Punto Cabrio Press Release

Geneva Show Press Release:

For the 2006’s edition of the Swiss motor show, Fioravanti proposes, with the prototype Skill, an innovative concept of vehicle’s transformability.

This technical proposal evidences the Fioravanti’s attitude to the automotive field that goes ahead the project itself, involving different activities at different levels : from strategic marketing with proposals of new products, to the research with new patents, from the vehicle’s architectural to the style till the engineering studies for the prototypes feasibility.

With Skill, based on the Fiat Grande Punto, Fioravanti proposes a new kind of product mainly dedicated to young people: a “fun pick up spider” that, thanks to a boot capacity of 750 l. and to an integrated structure, allows to easily carry: bikes, ski, snowboards, surfboards, go-kart…

After the patent showed in Geneve 2001 on the Alfa Romeo brand and then applied on the Ferrari Superamerica, Skill shows a new Fioravanti patent concerning the theme of retractable rigid roofs.

Also this solution is characterized by a simple cynematic and allows to keep the weight in the dynamically safer area. The roof, doing a rotation of 90°, and the rear window doing a translation, they lodge their self in a vertical position in a specific area between the seats and the boot itself.

The rear pillars contain the roof and the rear window moving mechanisms, they are also utilized for further integrated functions such as: the roll bar, the stop and the boot lights and the loudspeakers.

The Skill technical solutions could permit, by suitable synergies and small investments , to have a new accessible product and to increase the range with another version:

• A coupè easily transformable in a spider with a full capacity boot

Dimensions: Length : 4030 mm. Width: 1690 mm.

Heigth: 1470 mm. Wheelbase: 2510 mm.

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