Porsche Tapiro

The Porsche Tapiro is a concept car that Italdesign built in 1970, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro with a traditional 1970s wedge design that critics say somewhat resembles the De Tomaso Mangusta. Its chassis is based on the Porsche 914/6 and it has gullwing-style doors. A longitudinally mounted, air-cooled 2.4 litre flat six made 164 kW at 7,800 rpm through a five-speed manual gearbox, for an official top speed of 245 km/h. It was shown at the 1970 Turin Auto Show and made its US debut at the Los Angeles Imported Automobile and Sports Car Show in 1971. In 1972 it was sold to a Spanish industrialist who used it as his daily driver, and it was mostly destroyed in a fire, most likely from a bomb planted by labour activists. Italdesign bought back the burnt shell and displayed it in its Giugiaro Museum until 2020.