The Aznom Palladium is here and oh god our eyes

As you’ll well know, Italy has been home to many of the world’s greatest artists over the years. Whether they’re painting on canvas, carving from stone or creating ridiculous automotive shapes from aluminium, it seems that Italians can do no wrong when it comes to style.

Or so we thought. Yep, the... thing that you see above apparently hails from Monza.

It’s called the Aznom Palladium, and the story unfolds further when you realise that it’s based on a RAM 1500 pickup truck. We promise we’re not making any of this up.

Aznom says that the Palladium is designed to be a “hyper-limousine” and that it’ll fill an “interesting and exclusive niche”. You don’t say. That body was apparently designed by a man named Alessandro Camorali from Studio CAMAL in Torino, and it’s apparently hand made using “artisanal manufacturing techniques that are almost lost today”, despite featuring a carbon fibre bonnet and roof as well as composite bumpers at both ends. Hmmm. 

There’s plenty of aluminium in there too, apparently, as well as an added steel frame to improve stiffness at the rear of the RAM. 

Speaking of RAM, the Palladium’s engine is a tuned and twin-turbocharged version of RAM’s 5.7-litre HEMI V8, which now puts out around 700bhp and 700lb ft of torque. That’ll get the 2.6 tonne Aznom from 0-62mph in 4.5 seconds (apparently) and on to a top speed of 130mph. 

That’s combined with an eight-speed automatic gearbox and switchable rear/four-wheel drive with an electronic locking differential. Aznom also says it’ll do customers a Palladium with the mild-hybrid HEMI that RAM also sells in the 1500.

There’ll only be 10 of those customers though, and each one will apparently be able to completely customise their interior. Aznom started out in 2007 predominantly doing interior upgrades to cars like the Land Rover Defender and the Fiat 500, so it really has gone to town in there.

The large rear seats are reportedly “not unlike a throne” and as standard the Palladium is covered in Foglizzo leather. So much so that it’s even on the ceiling. There’s also posh glass holders, massive screens and some very interesting colour combinations. 

Also, what on earth is that boot opening? We’ve never seen anything like it. But then, we’ve never seen anything like the Palladium at all. There’s no word on price just yet, but it’s probably best not to ask. 

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