Ghia Asimmetrica - and what this concept car had to do with Inspector Maigret
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In the fall of 1961, the Asimmetrica was on the Ghia stand at the Turin Motor Show. As its name suggested, it was asymmetrically shaped and thus quoted the slanted in-line six-cylinder engine from the Chrysler Valiant. Ghia hoped for series production, but nothing came of it. Instead, the car became the property of a famous novelist. This article tells the story of the Ghia Asimmetria and shows it in many historical and current pictures, together with its predecessor and successor.
This article contains the following chapters
- From the XNR to the Asimmetrica
- From the Asimmetrica to the St. Régis
- From salon to salon
- From saloon to novelist
- Under the hammer
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 5min
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In the early 1960s, American car manufacturers in particular outdid themselves with ever more unusually shaped concept cars, which they often had built by Italian coachbuilders. One of the creative minds behind some of these show cars was Virgil Exner, who worked for Chrysler. One of these cars was the Plymouth XNR, which directly referenced the creator (E)XN(e)R with its designation. It was certainly an exciting, but not necessarily aesthetically successful study, which was deliberately asymmetrical, but technically remained rather well-behaved with its in-line six-cylinder engine and Chrysler/Plymouth Valiant base.
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