Volvo Tundra

The Volvo Tundra is a concept car that Bertone built and designed in 1979. Bertone's brief was to do something delicious based on the Volvo 343, and the angular design was by Marcello Gandini, continuing themes from the Lamborghini Silhouette and the Reliant (Anadol) FW11. Volvo rejected it because it considered the design too modern and difficult to market. It is often misreported that Bertone sold a very similar design to Citroën, which produced it as the Citroën BX, but that would have meant a concept becoming a production model in under eighteen months; the two designs simply came from the same design house. The rear side window had a pulled down top edge that gave a floating roof effect, and many styling cues, including the colour scheme, were reused on the Mazda MX-81. It used the 343's 1.4 litre four cylinder engine of 70 PS, driving the rear wheels.