Bertone Slim

The Bertone Slim is a concept car by Bertone designed for urban mobility and presented at the Geneva motor show in March 2000. It is built from recyclable materials with ideas taken from aircraft design, and it carries two people and their luggage in a row, like in a fuselage, while its very narrow front helps it move through traffic. The quadricycle is 3.2 metres long and only 1.1 metres wide, weighs under 400 kilograms, and has a resin body with sliding canopies and small side doors on an aluminium structure. A small two-cylinder 505 cc petrol engine from Lombardini Group gives 15 kilowatts and a top speed of 120 kilometres per hour. The prototype never went into production and is kept in the ASI Bertone Collection, together with a bare chassis and a full-size model.