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Sbarro BX Evasion

The Sbarro BX Evasion, also referred to as the Evasion BX 4x4, was a one-off concept car built by the Swiss constructor Sbarro. It was shown at the Geneva Motor Show at the end of the 1980s, presented alongside another Sbarro novelty, the Chrono 3.5. It was the sixth concept car Sbarro built in cooperation with Citroën, though not all of these projects were shown publicly.

The car was a doorless, open-bodied four-seater, styled in the manner of earlier beach-buggy type vehicles but built on a larger scale. It used the mechanical base of the four-wheel-drive Citroën BX, retaining only that car's front-end styling as a visual link to the donor model. The chassis combined the BX underpinnings with two massive longitudinal members integrated into the sills to allow a fully open body structure. The bodywork itself was a watertight glass-fibre-reinforced plastic shell, which, combined with the BX's permanent four-wheel drive and adjustable hydraulic suspension ride height, gave the car both off-road capability and the ability to wade through water. The interior was simple but distinctively designed, and the rear end, with rounded surfaces and an integrated wing, echoed the style of Sbarro's sportier creations. It rode on Michelin MX V-2 tyres sized 205/50 R 15.

Mechanically it used the Citroën BX's 1905 cc four-cylinder engine, producing 109 hp at 6000 rpm and 162 Nm of torque at 3000 rpm, with four-wheel drive. It measured 3840 mm long, 1780 mm wide and 1210 mm high, with a 2655 mm wheelbase, and weighed 920 kg.

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