Seeing the scion of the Fiat empire rolling in to BMW headquarters in Munich, you might think that the two companies were in discussions over a merger. After all, FCA chief Sergio Marchionne has been advocating another merger to anyone who’ll listen. But on the surface at least, that’s not what Lapo Elkann was doing at BMW this week. Instead he was delivering a car to the design department.
For those unfamiliar, Lapo is the grandson of late Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli and brother of current FCA chair John Elkann. He’s served in various capacities within the family company, ushering such special projects as the Fiat 500 Gucci edition and Ferrari Taylor Made program into fruition. He’s a noted fashion design as well, but he also has his own car customization outfit called Garage Italia Customs.
Most of the Garage’s projects to date have, naturally, been based on Fiat Chrysler models, but it recently branched out in designing an art car for BMW. Based on the i8 hybrid sports car, the Futurism edition draws its inspiration from the work of Italian painter Giacomo Balla.
The project was first revealed last month, and now Lapo has delivered it to the German automaker – straight into the hands of BMW design chief Adrian van Hooydonk. What that means for us, though, is another chance to ogle the one-of-a-kind vehicle from afar, so check it out in the images below.
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