Pininfarina PF0 due this month as EV Chiron rival
Newly formed car company will reveal its first car at Pebble Beach prior to launch in 2020
Later this month we’ll welcome an ultra-high performance hypercar to the world, offering performance to rival the Bugatti Chiron and a price tag that'll make your eyes water. Yes, just what we needed, another car that to 99.9% of us will be about as accessible as a first class ticket to the moon. This one is, however, designed by Pininfarina Automobili, the famous design house’s newly formed car company, and it will be the first of several models rather than the kind of multi million pound flash in the pan we’ve become accustomed to.
Arriving as part of $500 million worth of investment from parent company Mahindra, Pininfarina Automobili’s first car, the PF0, is due to reach roads in 2020 in no more than 150 examples. It’s now been teased in a video (below) that tenuously links the car’s upcoming Pebble Beach reveal to Pininfarina’s dotted history in America, which it claims includes Pininfarina senior rejecting a job offer from Henry Ford…
When the PF0 arrives it will play the role of a company halo, kick-starting the firm’s new chapter as a car maker before it launches the inevitable, an SUV (well, actually, there’ll be three of those). The first car will take the form of a low-slung supercar with a dome-like roofline, with design director Luca Borgogno revealing that inspiration has come from iconic Pininfarina models of yesteryear such as the curvaceous 1947 Cisitalia 202, the wedge-shaped 1970 512S Modulo and spaceship-like 2008 Sintesi concept.
Powering the PF0 will be an all-electric system (obvs) to enable a 0-62mph time of under two seconds; ruddy quick by anyone’s measure, even at this end of the market. No other numbers have been revealed as of yet, but rumours suggest the car will use modular underpinnings co-developed by Croatian electric supercar maker Rimac and the Mahindra Racing Formula E team to produce something in the region of 1,500hp.
This will set the bar rather high for the following SUVs, which are all due with electric powertrains based around altered versions of the same underpinnings. The quickest of the three SUVs, set to be called the PF1 according to Autocar, will produce up to 950hp, ranking it well above, say, the Lamborghini Urus and its 641hp. The PF1 will probably cost quite a bit more than the comparably mainstream £164,950 Lambo, however…
What’ll come after that is anyone’s guess, although given the high-end image Pininfarina Automobili is very obviously trying to push, it’s unlikely that we’ll be talking about any sleek-looking Pininfarina models valued at less than your average mortgage anytime soon.
Sort of similar to not approaching the 10/10 blonde at the bar and going for the 6/10 brunette. The latter is likely less costly, more fun and more importantly, more attainable.
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