Touring Superleggera closes a stellar summer season at the Zoute Concours d’Elegance

• 1948 Alfa Romeo 6C2500SS #touringsuperleggera awarded Best in Show.
• Special Award: Most elegant interior for the Bentley Continental ‘Flying Star’ by Touring.
• Lamborghini 4000GT Flying Star II Touring winner in the Shooting Brakes class.

 Knokke-Heist, 7^th October 2018

The Zoute concours last weekend was icing on the cake to a stellar show season for #touringsuperleggera, after the newest Touring Sciàdpersia, the Maserati-based luxury fuoriserie, was acclaimed at the Quail concours and gained the Maseratisti’s unconditioned consensus in such an unusual venue as the Lausitzring during the Maserati International Rally end September.  

The season started in Kyoto in April with the Best in show for the 1949 Alfa 6C 2500 Villa d’Este, continuing with the monumental victory of the 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C2900B Touring Berlinetta at Pebble Beach last August. 

The Zoute Concours d’Elégance in the Belgian seaside resort close the summer season. It is relatively young, but year on year it attracts more rare and significant classic cars to be scrutinised by a panel of reputed judges. They awarded a number of prizes to Touring bodied cars this year. 

The Best in Show prize went to a 1948 Alfa Romeo 6C2500SS with #touringsuperleggera bodywork. No surprise as this late iteration of the Touring series on 6C, with integrated wings and headlamps, features the most refined proportions and exquisite details, plus a gorgeous, authentic solid grey paintwork.

However, the most pertinent tribute to Touring came perhaps with the “Most Elegant Interior” prize awarded to the Bentley Continental Flying Star III. “I am particularly proud of this prize - so Piero Mancardi, CEO of #touringsuperleggera. - The coach built Bentley shooting brake that made sensation at the 2010 Geneva Show epitomizes Touring’s craftsmanship, exclusivity and timeless elegance with its stunning combination of fine hides and woven leather, whose pattern is individually assigned to the owner. Today’s #touringsuperleggera cars are tomorrow’s classics, and worthy competitors of the Italian fuoriserie of the golden age.”

Another prize went to #touringsuperleggera in the Shooting Brakes class, where the one-of-a-kind Lamborghini 4000GT Flying Star II designed by Touring for the 1966 Turin Motor Show won the class award. After a loving restoration at the Touring atelier in Milan the car now proudly exhibits its edged lines, anticipating by almost a decade the design evolution of the seventies.