BD2/4 Cabriolet shows a formal work very sober. The facade is completely structured
around the big chrome-plated Aston Martin calander, that includes two additional
headlights. Like on the Small Boat, the engine bonnet is moved by a long air intake. The side sight offers a smooth and measured side, defined by a long front bonnet and by a picked-up and muscular tail, tapered off downward.
In 1955 once again is the DB2/4 mechanical engineering that inspires Bertone for a "pure" two-seat roadster of great formal elegance. The treatment of the volumes has become softer and more fluid. The air intake on the engine bonnet has disappeared in favour of a higher and showier calender. The back volume is characterised by the "fins" overcoming the mudguards. In a bodywork so much classic, in a surprizing way is inserted a panoramic "American shape" windscreen, as a gift by the fashion of that time.
In 1961 was born a 2+2 coupé still living today that is considered one between the most successful creations of Bertone: DB4 GT (realized in only one model, this car won the Villa d'Este Elegance Competition in 2001) presented with the name of Jet at the Geneva Show in 1961. With Aston Martin Jet the theme of gran turismo is developed according to stylist canons that at that time excite astonishment and admiration. The car shows a sinuous and fluid side, connected to the tail volume by a stretch "muscle" on the back wheel arch. The thin roof, leant with delicacy to the back pillar, defines a picked-up and bright cockpit like the airplane cockpit. For lots of years, Aston Martin Bertone Jet has been the icon of the Italian sport coupé.
In 2004, at the International Car Show of Geneva, Aston Martin Jet 2 is presented.
Realized as one-off based on the Vanquish mechanical engineering, Jet 2 regains the
engine, the loading platform planning (the step lengthened of 210 mm allowed getting two back seats not foreseen by the original model) and all the elements of body "under leather" not to change the elements submitted to validation. With Aston Martin Jet 2, Bertone propose again in modern terms, a product linked to historical tradition of Italian car body designers that, above all in the Fifties and Sixties, dressed with "haute couture" the most fascinating sports cars.
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Date Posted: March 11, 2013