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The
Nessie represents an in-depth analysis into the issue of the day, the
SUV. For the centennial Geneva Motor Show, Italdesign Giugiaro, in
collaboration with Mitsubishi and the Linde Group, pushed
creative-thinking towards intermeshing, yet again, technology and style,
giving tangible form to a heart-pounding yet clean sports utility
vehicle that offers advanced solutions to the environment-friendly
dilemma. Research into styling was focused unassailably around all-new
product sculptural modeling, with a keen eye steered towards bodyside
and volume plasticity giving breath of life to a vehicle architecture
never seen before, the 2.5V SUV coupé.
Forging an agreement with a leader brand such as
Mitsubishi was the trigger for priming this all-new research. Having
attained an operating chassis, drawn from the string of experience
gained winning tough and rugged world rallies like the Paris Dakar,
starting to take shape within Italdesign Giugiaro was a rational route
towards technical design with a view to installing a powerful yet
pleasurable V8 engine along with, as a consequence, a hydrogen fuel
system, applied in collaboration with the Linde Group, a clean power
source that renders this vehicle absolutely “clean”, all of which
operated and managed by an automatic gear box and a sophisticated
electronically controlled wheeldrive.
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