Italdesign Aspid

The Italdesign Aspid is a concept car created by Italdesign in 1988 and derived directly from the firm’s Aztec, with which it is identical up to the waistline. It differs from the open Aztec in a central air intake in the front bumper and a smaller bonnet, and it carries a closed one-box coupe body, a theme the house had first explored in 1968 with the Bizzarrini Manta and returned to in 2008 with the Quaranta. The project began with the chance to mould windows with double curvature, glass shaped spherically rather than as a cylinder section, on an industrial basis, which let the designers run the glazed surfaces into the flowing lines of the body without breaks. The roof dome is divided into two cross-sections, the door has a conventionally opening side part with an upper part that rotates forward, the main car information is reached through two side panels opened with numerical codes, and the rear wheels are streamlined. Supercars.net lists an Audi turbocharged inline-five of 2,226 cc and 149 kW driving all four wheels from a transverse mid-mounted position.