Bakrie Brothers, part of the Indonesian Bakrie Group, commissioned the British design house SHADO in September 1994 to develop a new multi-purpose vehicle for the Indonesian market, known as the Beta 97, or B97, MPV. The car was designed almost entirely on screen, in collaboration with CAD Ltd, from SHADO's initial renderings, and the design was first shown to Bakrie's management in April 1995. Full-size clay models of the car's…