Bertone Ramarro

The Bertone Ramarro is an Italian concept car designed and built by Bertone and based on the Chevrolet Corvette (C4). It debuted in 1984 at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The name "ramarro" comes from the Italian word for "green lizard".

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I feel like this design was way ahead of it's time. It looks futuristic even now, 40 years later. It's a shame that it remains just a concept.

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Instead we ended up with midsized SUVs and everything looks like a stumpy running shoe. Oh well
- My first thought was it looks similar to the 84 trans am
  They just put sliding doors
  
  It was based on the Corvette, so that makes sense seeing as the Trans Am was essentially just a cheaper version of the Corvette, both being produced by GM.
  
  Yeah nah. Not even close.
This is dope as fuck
I feel like this influenced one or two of the cars in Cyberpunk.
For reference, the Cyberpunk board game came out in 1989. I'm not just talking about the 2020 video game, hence leaving off the 2077 part — the OG was Cyberpunk 2013 and there was also Cyberpunk Red. The 2020 game is very faithful to the designs from 1989.
Oh, and loads of Cyberpunk cars had doors that opened non-traditionally, too. But I meant the body shape of this car.
- That's what I've been thinking as well. It definitely fits the theme and "technical" design language.
- Lancia Stratos HF influenced Cyberpunk and bladerunner.
Those doors!!
Looks unique and kinda sick, and I usually don't really care for front engined 2 seat sports cars, because they typically, IMO, look comically misproportioned.
Cars are now all the same, choice of red, black, white, silver. The Italian design houses are all but gone.
- Bertone, Italdesign and Pininfarina still exist, they are the first that come to mind when I think of Italian design studios.

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