It is the most powerful all-electric hypercar designed by the people who created hypercars in the first place. Meet the Pininfarina Battista!
What’s all this about “the people who made the hypercar?” Let me try to explain – look, way back in time, before 1987, there were definitely a few supercars. A Lamborghini Countach here, a Porsche 930 there, and maybe even Magnum PI’s Ferrari (if you’re too young to know who that is, ask your mom). All beautiful cars, all fairly fast, but very much out of their time. Then, in 1987, Ferrari launched the F40, and that all changed.
That car was unlike anything seen before in its time. It had a Formula 1 style monocoque chassis, carbon fiber bits, lightweight composites and a computer controlled V8 turbo engine. Depending on who you asked, that Ferrari would go from 0 to 60 in about 3.8 seconds and pull all the way to a top speed of 197 MPH (or 201, if you ask Ferrari). Very nice stuff, but it was the towering rear wing that would make the F40 burn in the hearts and minds of young car enthusiasts. You can see for yourself how beautiful it was…
So beautiful
Image Courtesy of Ferrari.
…and almost every inch of that beauty was styled by Pininfarina.
Pininfarina is not a person, though – it’s a business. To be precise, a design house. Named after its founder, Battista “Pinin” Farina, the company is responsible for dozens of fantastic, iconic cars and has remained in the family. After changing their last name to “Pininfarina”, Battista’s son, Sergio, ran the company until 2001, until his son took over, etc.
So, here we are in 2022, and Pininfarina has designed another groundbreaking hypercar. This time, however, it doesn’t bear the Ferrari logo – they do it on their own. And, if for the car goes? It also stands alone.
There’s almost nothing you can say about the Pininfarina Battista hypercar that doesn’t sound made up. It accelerates from 0-60 MPH in good less than 2.0 seconds, for example. You may be able to wrap your head around that bit of trivia, but have you experienced it? The car’s top speed, 217 MPH, is another brain teaser — and, before the Tesla quota startsthe Battista is electronically restricted to 217 MPH, with 250+ MPH claims appearing to be the least “made up” of the claims swirling around this car.
It’s a thing, in other words. And even now it is a very real thing. Production of the $2 million exotic specimen has officially begun in the small 7,500-square-foot space in Cambiano, Italy, into a true production line where a team of 10 talented artisans will hand-build each of the 150 pre-sold Battistas. cars in 1250 hours (plus 90 hours of extra work for the hand-applied paintwork).
For context, it takes about 18 hours to build a toyota camry.
Check out the photo gallery video below, then let us know what you think of the Battista – and if you think that 85x jump in man-hours seems legit – in the comments section at the bottom of the page.
Pininfarina Battista in production
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