The AKKA Technologies group subsequently sold the Bertone brand in 2020 to Mauro and Jean-Franck Ricci, the new owners.

One year later, a contract on a torpedo-styled body based on the SPA 23S chassis was signed by the company.

During the 1920s, Giovanni Bertone began doing bodywork on the Fast, Chiribiri, Aurea, SCAT, and Diatto chassis.

Vincenzo Lancia nicknamed him "Bertunot"; he commissioned Bertone to create cars for the "limited series".

Giovanni Bertone produced torpedo and saloon bodies for FIAT and Lancia and for Itala, Diatto, and SPA.

Alongside sports models like the 1928 Ansaldo 6BS, Giovanni Bertone also designed cars like the Fiat 505 limousine and the Itala 51S, both in 1924.

[2] With the outbreak of the Second World War, Bertone reacted to the crisis by turning to manufacturing military vehicles.

The chassis Fiat 2800 cabriolet was manufactured; it was built on commission for race driver and motoring journalist Giovanni Lurani Cernuschi.

In 1956, they produced the Abarth 750 Record; it was built on a Fiat 600 chassis and tested on the high-speed track at Monza.

At the end of the 1950s, Bertone created the Giulietta Sprint Speciale, the Aston Martin DB2/4, and the Maserati 3500 GT.

At the same time, two new industrial partnerships were worked on with the Simca 1000 Coupé and the BMW 3200 CS limited series.

The commercial success of this model led Nuccio Bertone to increase the company's production capacity to 120 units per day.

At the Paris Motor Show of 1968, Bertone presented the Carabo concept car, based on an Alfa 33 chassis.

By 1970, Bertone had a workforce of 1,500 staff, and the Grugliasco factory covered an area of 267,000 square metres (2,870,000 sq ft).

A new commercial agreement drawn up with General Motors Europe in 1986 saw the production of the Kadett Cabrio handed over to Bertone.

[2] By 2009, a worsening financial situation caused Bertone to sell its Grugliasco plant, along with its manufacturing activities, to FIAT.

[4][5][6] After having ceased trading because of financial difficulties, Bertone, on 18 March 2014,[5] confirmed that it would be declared bankrupt if a suitable buyer was not found by the end of April.