Bertone usually makes beautiful designs. Not this time. Remarkably, this car did evolve into a road car - the Lamborghini Espada. But thankfully not much was carried over other than the basic proportions and a similar looking front hood.
The Espada was a 4 seater with two doors, but there are a couple differences in those simularities. One is that the interior was not chrome, and the second is that the doors were regular sized and convential - not massive and gullwing. Gullwing doors can look nice, but not when they're twice the size of regular coupe doors. And almost completely glass.
Only stranger still (and hard to see in this view) the car had a strange hexagon theme. Maybe Mr. Gandini's conscience called out for him to stop while designing this car. The dash instruments were hexogans, the seats are vaguely hexagonal (as are the doors) and the rear engine cover was covered with hexagonal shaped holes for venting engine heat.
I should note the Espada was a front engine design, which is what this concept looks like it should be with it's long front hood.
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