Bertone BAT 11 wins Sky Motoring  Best Concept Car of 2008.

Sky Motoring (see link below) article:

A true concept car must fulfil one or both of the following roles: either a) offer a new and interesting insight into what the future of motoring could hold, and/or b) be so outrageously outlandish that it makes us jump around like little boys.

But most of all it has to be a dream car. Forget tarted up versions of next year’s new family wagon, what we’re looking for here is the sort of design that you’d pin on your bedroom wall.

And the winner is…
The Bertone BAT 11. Bertone wasn’t present at this year’s Geneva Motor Show thanks to its then uncertain future so instead the small Italian carrozzeria hired a grungy warehouse in the Swiss capital and invited a select number of people including us. So this thing is enigmatic. Excellent.

It’s also a modern interpretation of Bertone’s BAT (Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica) design dynasty of the 1950s so it’s also part of a legend.

But more than anything the BAT 11 marked the return of the true dream car. Nobody expected Alfa Romeo to ever build the car so very little concession was made to practicality. Instead the car’s designer, David Wilkie, had one purpose in mind – to evoke the same utopian vision of its streamlined ancestors and flick two fingers to the grandiose multinationals that wheeled out the same old cynical next-year's-euro-box-with-big-wheels-and-fancy-paint down the road at the motor show. And for that, the Bertone BAT 11 wins our Best Concept Car of 2008.

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