Pininfarina names 1,925hp hypercar Battista
Italian firm's first standalone model is dedicated to the man that founded the company
Automobili Pininfarina has reiterated that its first standalone model - an all-electric hypercar to be launched at the Geneva motor show next year - will be the quickest and most powerful car to herald from Italy. You know, the country that makes Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Paganis. To emphasise that it means business, the newly launched car firm has christened the model with the most sacred of names: Battista.
No, not after Sergio Batista the Argentinean midfielder of 39 caps, but after Battista Farina, the legendary automotive designer who founded the firm in 1930. To Pininfarina, this decision has as much significance as Ferrari naming one of its supercars Enzo. It certainly ought to do the snowballing level of expectation no harm - if that was ever really a problem for a 1,925hp hypercar that's claimed to be capable of a sub-two seconds 0-60mph dash and is expected to break the 250mph barrier.
No more than 150 examples will be available from late 2020, and its manufacturer conservatively estimates that the unit price is likely to be between $2m and $2.5m. The US, Europe and Asia (plus the Middle East) will each receive an allocation of 50 cars.
As PH found out during a recent visit to Pininfarina's headquarters, the firm has eight decades of experience to call upon, along with the vision and leadership of Battista's grandson - and current company boss - Paolo Pininfarina. Enough, you'd hope, to ensure that its first-born product lives up to the family legacy...
Someone needs to invent passion for electical cars, because there's no passion, at all. The power is simply a number written on a bit of paper by an accountant and seemingly easily met.
Ar least you *felt* like the engineers had a struggle to hit the power in the Veyron, as sterile as you could see it.
This? A reboxing of another product, however pretty as it might or might not turn out to be.
I’d understand big brands like Porsche and Jaguar dipping their toes in it, creating desirable mainstream options for the market but that’s it.
Who wants to spend that kind of money on something that makes no noise?!
We’ve all seen many videos of the Model X destroying a lot of cars in the 1/4 mile and keeping up with super cars, theyre ridiculously fast and their only real selling point, anything faster really is unusable on the road. Why would anyone spend that kind of money on a 1900 bhp hypercar that makes no noise and has 1 trick that can barely be enjoyed on a runway or drag strip?!
Edit - before anyone says ‘why bother anything faster then? Why not just stop making cars and stop progressing’
I don’t mean it like that, a car like the new F1 engined AMG interests me and they could charge 5 million for them, sell out and I wouldn’t question it like this electric car, as there’s an engine inside that cost millions in R&D to engineer and make work. These electric cars just sound easy to make and I don’t see the point like an ICE car.
The sound of a car is a huge part of the experience for many petrolheads. The way the power is delivered is also critical. Nothing beats the sound of a decent engine nearing the redline, watching the revs increasing until changing gear at the right moment.
This is something EV's most likely will never replicate.
I know some will pop up and say that the sound of ICE is just the by-product of the inefficiency of burning fossil fuels. But that's missing the point.
couldn't care less if it will accelerate from here to the moon faster than we can blink....
i bet it will look absolutely mega though!
This or a Keating?
0 to 60 in under 1 second
350mph
4 second quarter mile
55m each
All sold
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