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Giugiaro Clipper MPV - Electrico 6 lugares
Volkswagen-owned design house Italdesign Giugiaro has unveiled an innovative new six-seat MPV concept on the eve of the Geneva motor show.
The all-wheel drive Clipper, which is based on VW’s versatile MQB platform, is powered solely by electric, and has a range of up to 335 miles. Two 148bhp electric motors power the 127mph concept car, one front mounted and one rear.
With the absence of a conventional engine and the batteries all being mounted in the floor, almost all of the car’s footprint is given over to a spacious interior. There are three rows of two seats, the rearmost two can be folded flat for a 900-litre load space.
Italdesign, best-known recently for exotic concepts such as the luxuryBrivido GT from 2012 and the off-road Parcour supercar from 2013, says the 4534mm-long Clipper, which is named after a sailing ship, is “deliberately not futuristic car”, where the only concession to an exotic concept car touch was in its front butterfly doors and rear gullwings.
The four doors open upwards, and the B-pillars are mounted into the two rearmost doors to allow improved access into the interior. All six occupants can get in the car at the same time.
The hi-tech interior is based around a theme of lightness. The traditional dashboard-mounted controls are shifted to a floating tablet mounted on a console that can slide between the three rows of seats, something allowed by the electric architecture and the lack of a bulky transmission tunnel.
Italdesign has also shown a sportier Ducati-badged version at the Geneva show with altered doors and C-pillars, plus a new livery.




