![]() “It’s one of the reasons I love working at Touring,” Louis says. The top half of the car now flows seamlessly into dramatic seat fairings which are reinforced with carbon, resolving into a rear end whose volumes look almost impossibly cool.Ĭool or not, the sculpted taper on the DVS’s rear really would be impossible if it weren’t a handcrafted, bespoke special. The roof is a two-piece carbon-fibre creation (the panels weigh 3.5kg each), the design of which necessitated a complete reworking of the windscreen. It’s also much more than just an open version of the Touring Disco Volante coupe (driven in TG issue 250). As wide as a Range Rover, its body really is almost saucer-shaped and flaunts the basic tenets of stance and proportion so flagrantly that it simply shouldn’t work. The DVS generates so much charisma, it’s difficult to know where to begin. Thirty months of anticipation, and he wants us to do the honours? Is he mad? He’ll meet the car he started thinking about two-and-a-half years ago, and then take part in a weekend-long catch-up with Touring luminaries and owners. Its owner, UK businessman Clive Beecham, has asked TG to collect it from Bologna airport and drive it to Florence, where we’ll meet him. Although it looks like pure conceptual eye candy, the DVS is a production car, albeit in an extraordinarily limited run: the vehicle you see here is currently one of one, although six more will follow. As Touring celebrates its 90th anniversary, it’s a welcome shot in the arm for one of the best-loved names in Italian carrozzeria, a firm whose greatest hits include the Aston Martin DB4, Ferrari 166 MM and Lancia Flaminia GT. Visitors to the Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza in May obviously agreed, awarding it the prize for best concept or prototype. Of greater relevance is his fluency in design, for if a more striking car than the Touring DVS has appeared in the past five years then it’s passed me by. Carl Meißner Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.Louis is Belgian, his fluency in English only rarely offset by the odd Clouseau-esque turn of phrase.disco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.disco in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication.Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press ![]() See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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