We bet companies like BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Maserati (sort of - it is Fiat) and anyone else who makes a four-seater cabriolet is happy this Alfa Romeo GT Cabriolet never made it to production. The Bertone-designed Alfa GT cabrio was supposed to make production as the world’s first Italian open-top, four-seater and which would have expanded the Alfa range nicely to include such a model.

It also would have helped to save Bertone manufacturing, but after a decision (likely a bad one in hindsight) by Alfa not to give it the green light, it never made production. The car brand chose instead to build the Alfa Spider, which never really took off and looking back now, a Bertone-designed cabrio based on the GT may very well have been more successful, despite the Giugiaro-Pininfarina breeding of the Spider.

Bertone recently released these images of the model Alfa snubbed for whatever reason and reports are that it could have directly contributed to Bertone’s eventual bankrupt end. Luca Ciferri describes it as “poetic justice” that the Spider was a flop and while justic of the poetic type is never truly satisfying, it is a kind of consolation all the same.

Source | Autoblog.com

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