Italdesign Twenty-Twenty

The Italdesign Twenty-Twenty is a two-seat open concept car built by the Italian firm Italdesign Giugiaro and unveiled at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show. Its name is the English way of saying the year 2020, and Italdesign presented it as the first open-topped Aston Martin as it might look in that year. It uses a mechanical layout derived from the Aston Martin DB7, with a 5,935 cc V12 of 500 hp, and unlike many concept cars it is fully functional. The architecture builds on the exposed-structure idea of the Capsula and the Structura: the chassis is made of extruded aluminium sections left in view, and the body panels of carbon fibre and plastic rest on top without hiding the engineering, with visible gaps between them. A strong aluminium roll bar sits behind the cabin. The car appeared at the Goodwood Festival in 2005.