GRANDER TOURER; Piloting the Z8-based Bertone Birusa.(Cover Story)

Byline: Matt Davis In the local Turin dialect, its name can mean either a quick-witted person or a clever, naughty girl. Our drive in the Bertone Birusa dream car shown in March at Geneva proves the prototype-chosen as AutoWeek's Best Concept of the show-possesses enough substance to satisfy the most intelligent or wicked.

It had been a while since we'd seen a Bertone concept that really grabbed us-maybe the Alfa 166-based Bella 2+2 at the '99 Geneva show came closest, apart from its slightly beaked face. Within 45 minutes of the `03 show, we were introduced to the Pininfarina ...

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