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BOWLING GREEN MEETS TURIN; Italdesign-Giugiaro hits Geneva with the wild Corvette Moray.(Cover Story)(Alfa Romeo Brera)
Byline: MATT DAVIS
How do you follow a smash hit? Last year's Italdesign-Giugiaro Geneva show star, the award-hogging sex bomb Alfa Romeo Brera by papa Giorgio Giugiaro, has officially been tapped by Alfa's boss Daniele Bandiera to be the 2005 successor to today's midsize 156. Bravo, Dan.
At this year's Swiss meeting, son Fabrizio Giugiaro wanted a true showoff in the show car tradition, not a concept so much as a dream car. A spectacular conversation-sparker. Whimsy, sensuality and respect all rolled into one with no express thoughts of volume production.
The results you see here, the Italdesign-Giugiaro Corvette Moray to be set loose March 4 at 3:30 p.m. Geneva time.
North Americans tend to treat the Corvette with holy respect. We're in the car's 50th-anniversary year and GM may be on the verge of owning more or all of Fiat, Turin's No. 1 employer and frequent user of Giugiaro services.
So there are bound to be all sorts of questions. Such as, ``Has GM approached Italdesign-Giugiaro for design help on the 2005 C6 Corvette?'' ``Can we expect more GM projects coming from Giugiaro?'' or maybe just ``How dare you?'' Answers: No, not yet, and just because.
As Fabrizio relates it, the Corvette Moray is a product of his passion for sports car icons. Soon after the 2002 Geneva show he said he wanted to do an American car. Looking in his own garage he found a black 2000 model-year Corvette Z06 just aching to be hacked right down to its naked subframe and then built back up from there. So, you could maybe think of this as Fabrizio's own Corvette Custom.
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