Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour purees SUV, sports cars into one challenging package

It's only appropriate that at the Geneva Motor Show, one automaker introduce the vehicular equivalent of a Swiss Army knife — and that the machine come from a corner of the Volkswagen empire.

Tucked among the 12 brands that VW owns — from Seat to Porsche to Bugatti — lies the Italdesign Giugiaro group, the design house that penned the first Golf. VW bought the firm in 2010, and since then it has been working on concepts that cut across the grain of the world's second-largest automaker. With the Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour — named for the French sport parkour — the designers appear to have attempted to build one scissor-doored vehicle that could serve as a desert racer, track-day star and composed luxury two-seater.