Bertone’s Charismatic Porsche

Although marriages of Italian styling with German machinery are seen as a rarity, the clever way that Bertone clothed a Type 964 911 Carrera, in 1994, showed that creativity and ingenuity from Turin worked well on a chassis from Zuffenhausen.

The binomial of “Bertone Porsche” is well remembered for the Italian designer’s racy roadster on the 911 platform shown at Geneva in 1966. This was a wonderful interpretation of an open two-seater in the Italian idiom, commissioned from the Turin coachbuilder by California Porsche distributor John von Neumann. He saw it as having commercial potential that regrettably did not mature.