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    Volvo Tundra Concept 1979

    The Volvo Tundra, 1979. The Italian design company Bertone based the Volvo Tundra concept on the Volvo 343. It´s "block division" into body sections was characteristic of Bertone style at the time
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    Nice thread! Thank you Duell!

    Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a Citroën BX?
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    You'd never be able to guess that Bertone styled the Citroen BX as well.

    I've always wondered why Volvo let Citroen produce something so close to one of their concepts
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    some design features of the volvo, notably the wheel arches, where already shown on the Jaguar Ascot a 2+2 coupe based on the XJS V12, and presented in 1977.

    The same shape, but with rounded wheelarches was also presented on the Mazda MX-81, later renamed "Aria", presented inTokyo in 1981 and in Turin in 1981.

    The BX was presented in 1982

    It should also be noted that in those days companies like Bertone presented these concepts sometimes on their own initiative, and as they were looking to fill up their production lines, the based them on cars made by some of their main customers in the past.
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    I had thought that maybe it was a Bertone design that had simply had the Volvo badge stuck on it because they wanted a concept at the time.

    It is still quite unusual for one company to produce someone elses concept car though.

    Can you imagine if Ford went to ItalDesign and started building the Ford Brera?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coventrysucks
    I had thought that maybe it was a Bertone design that had simply had the Volvo badge stuck on it because they wanted a concept at the time.

    It is still quite unusual for one company to produce someone elses concept car though.

    Can you imagine if Ford went to ItalDesign and started building the Ford Brera?
    what happened was/is that Bertone is using the underpinnings of a certain car (in this case the Volvo 440), makes a nice design and goes to the factory to see whether they will buy it.

    If Alfa Romeo had not liked the Brera, Italdesign would have been free to sell it to Ford. Only if Alfa had specifically commissioned (and paid) Italdesign for the car, the rights would be with Alfa.
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    Quote Originally Posted by henk4
    what happened was/is that Bertone is using the underpinnings of a certain car (in this case the Volvo 440), makes a nice design ......
    Henk, not the 440 but the 343

    But the car does have some similarities with the 480. Which off course was produced a few years later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Duell
    Henk, not the 440 but the 343

    But the car does have some similarities with the 480. Which off course was produced a few years later.
    right you are

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    The dashboard looks like K.I.T.T er sumfin!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spastik_Roach
    "KEET, ZE NEED VOU TO UZE ZEE VURBO BOOZT!"
    Since when did David Hasselhoff become a Nazi in a WWII film?

    Or is that supposed to be Swedish?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coventrysucks
    Since when did David Hasselhoff become a Nazi in a WWII film?

    Or is that supposed to be Swedish?
    Meh, bad Swedish reindition. You're welcome to do a better one.

    But David Hasselhoff as a Nazi would be funny

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    Swedish i think

    But the dash and the gear leaver are really "special"
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    It looks like the BX for good reason. Volvo turned to Bertone for some styling tips on the 343, and they weren't satisfied with the Tundra, so they put the rights to the design up in the air. One of Citroen's presidents saw the Tundra at the Turin Auto Show and asked Bertone if they could create a car for them that looked a bit like it from the profile side, so the BX was launched in 1982.

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