Italdesign Asgard

The Italdesign Asgard is a concept car shown by the Italian design house Italdesign in 1988, the third variation on a theme created to mark the firm’s twentieth anniversary. It is a one-box space wagon built on the same mechanical layout as the open Aztec and the Aspid coupe, with the wheelbase lengthened by 300 mm, and Giugiaro meant it as a top-of-the-range multi-purpose vehicle with sports-standard performance from a turbocharged five-cylinder engine of about 200 hp. Large glazed areas run the windscreen and side windows into one continuous surface, and an extra glass band below the windscreen pillar helps the driver manoeuvre. Six electrically adjustable seats are fixed inside, a single driver’s seat beside a two-seat bench with three individual seats behind, and two more fold out of the luggage compartment, facing backwards, for children.