Italdesign Firepoint

The Italdesign Firepoint is a concept car shown by Italdesign Giugiaro at the 1994 Turin motor show, where Fiat asked coachbuilders belonging to ANFIA to offer their own interpretation of the Punto, which had been launched the year before. It is a high-performing 2+2 coupé with much attention paid to aerodynamics, and the inspiration is openly aeronautical: the dome-shaped roof over the body is completely transparent and recalls the cockpit of a hunter aircraft, while the backward raked pillar of the wraparound windscreen recalls cars of the 1950s and 1960s. The door opens in the traditional manner but the windows open like gull wings, a solution Italdesign had used earlier on the BMW Nazca of 1991. The side windows and the rear window are removable, and a central rollbar joined to the windscreen lets the Firepoint be converted into a roadster. Supercars.net gives its length as 3,895 mm, its width as 1,700 mm and its height as 1,288 mm on a 2,400 mm wheelbase, with a transverse front engine driving the front wheels.