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Fox News Digital Automotive editor-in-chief Gary Gastelu discusses his test drive of the world’s toughest car, the Pininfarina Battista, in “Varney”
You may not know the so-called Pininfarina, but you know her work.
Italian automobile design firm, or automobilerozzeria, has designed many cars since its inception through Battista “Pinin” Farina in 1930, adding dozens of Ferraris like the iconic white Testarossa featured in “Miami Vice. “
The company bought in 2015 through Indian automaker Mahindra, which three years later introduced a sister logo called Automobili Pininfarina to build its own electric supercars.
Automobili Pininfarina CEO Per Svantesson told Fox Business in an exclusive interview and driving check of the company’s first car, the $2. 2 million Battista, that he was fulfilling a Farina dream.
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Pininfarina Battista at $2. 2 million. (FOX Business/Fox News)
“He was looking to start a car company, he never had time to do that, he got stuck in his own good fortune designing cars for everyone,” Svantesson said.
The Battista is a collaboration with Croatian electric sports car manufacturer Rimac, which sells the electric supercar Nevera. Both share their car fiber chassis and all-electric powertrains, but have been modern and tuned with their own characters. Rimac took over the Bugatti logo last year.
The Battista can accelerate up to 60 mph in 1. 8 seconds. (FOX Business/Fox News)
The Battista coupe heralds the company’s arrival with four electric motors with a combined output of 1,877 horsepower, making it the toughest production car on sale today.
It’s also the fastest car, with Pininfarina claiming it can accelerate up to 60 mph in less than two seconds. Step on the accelerator on the comfortable floor mat. It can also reach a top speed of 218 mph, making it faster than all so-called hypercars.
“It’s amazing how you can harness power,” Svantesson said.
Each car will be designed according to the personal and unique tastes of the buyer. (FOX Business/Fox News)
Or call back. The Battista offers drivers 4 force modes, adding one called Calm that makes driving more comfortable with force directed only at the front wheels, but still 670 horsepower to play with.
The Battista has 4 motors and a 120 kWh battery designed with his spouse Rimac. (Rimac/Fox News)
The Battista’s appeal to consumers goes beyond its performance. Automobili Pininfarina will build only 150, each designed according to the color and final personal tastes of its owner. Once someone safely specifies a car, which can build the one worth more than $3 million, they may not be made exactly the same. The cars require more than 1,300 hours of painting through a team of 10 craftsmen, 80 of whom are dedicated to painting alone. Exceptions to this rule are five special edition Anniversary Automobiles, which feature the same two-tone color palette that requires two hundred hours in the paint shop.
The rear wing of the Battista is cellular and can serve as an air brake. (FOX Business/Fox News)
Svantesson said 4 of the quintets were sold to consumers in the U. S. The U. S. , which is shaping up to be its largest market.
In addition, the Battista rarely necessarily competes with other multimillion-dollar cars. Svantesson said many of his consumers don’t buy it “instead” from other cars, but upload it to their extensive collections.
The cabin is accessed by butterfly-hinged doors. (FOX Business/Fox News)
“With our logo and our history, it was given to those creditors to say, ‘I wish I had a Pininfarina like this, the first Pininfarina. ‘”
He added that he is also tapping into a new market of wealthy Americans seeking green credentials who would like nothing about a Ferrari or Lamborghini because they have yet to provide an all-electric model.
The Battista’s battery can be 20 to 80% in 25 minutes. (FOX Business/Fox News)
“There are other people, executives, CEOs, who pontificate their sustainability message to the market, and they don’t need to be noticed on the road with a big V16 [petrol engine] or V12 or whatever, yet this car can hit the road and other people may even appreciate them for the choice they made to go electric. “
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The Battista is strangely spacious and has two touchscreens that almost everything from the weather to the seating position are partially hidden through the guide wheel.
However, you can’t have it all. Battista’s variety is around three hundred miles between fares in Calma, which is comparable to an electric car in those days, and the small trunk of his cabin is even less impressive than that, but you can have a matching four-piece traditional luggage set. The car and includes a shoe bag and a perfect weekend for $25,000.
A traditional luggage set has been designed for compatibility in the trunk. (Automobili Pininfarina/Fox News)
Svantesson expects full production of the Battista to take around 3 years, after which it will be replaced by something particularly cheaper, but still close to the more sensitive luxury functionality segment.
“The next car will appeal to a wider audience,” he said.
“It will be a more practical car in some respects, a little more than in this one. “
This story has been updated with new specifications.
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