Automobili Turismo e Sport
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Track enthusiasts looking for an affordable race car have a new option from historic Italian marque ATS.
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ATS RR Turbo: Historic Italian brand's new race car priced under $150,000Automobili Turismo e Sport's new RR Turbo racer packs 600 horsepower and weighs just 1,763 pounds.
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
ATS reveals first of 12 Launch Edition GT supercars
If you start with the right platform, you can turn something good into something great. It appears that Italy's Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS) is playing at that game, as the company has developed its own supercar based on the bones of a McLaren 650S. Shown one year ago as a prototype, ATS has...
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Italy’s ATS unveils modern GT supercar at 2017 Salon Privé Concours d’Elegance
In 2012, Italian sports car brand Automobili Turismo e Sport was revived after a 50-year hiatus by a man named Daniele Maritan. The company initially dabbled in lightweight track cars as well as a retro speedster, but the long-term goal was always to build a successor to the Ferrari-rivaling 2500...
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Italy’s ATS Returns With New Sport Dieci Track Car
There’s been a battle over the rights to historic Italian sports car brand Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS) over the past year but the matter finally appears to have been settled, with an Italian court recently granting the rights to the brand as well as several associated sports car designs...
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ATS Reveals Sport 490 Stradale Street-Legal Track Car
Niche sports car brand Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS), which recently located from its home in Italy to a new base in the Canary Islands, has announced its latest production, a road-legal track car called the Sport 490 Stradale. ALSO SEE: Dodge Viper ACR Concept Headlines Mopar's 2014 SEMA Fleet...
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Everyone loves a little nostalgia now and then and Italian firm Automobili Turismo e Sport—or ATS for short—is certainly happy to provide it. The name dates back to the golden age of racing in the 1960s and so does its latest sports car, the Leggera. Joining the thoroughly modern Sport 1000 and the striking 2500 GT, the Leggera goes down the small, pretty roadster route, once the preserve of both Italian and British sports car companies. ATS will tell you it "revives the concept of Italian sports cars" but we definitely see a hint of British marque Ginetta in there—the...
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Italy's ATS Updates Sport 1000 Track Car For 2015
It's all go at Automobili Turismo e Sport right now. Alongside fellow revived Italian brand Ermini back in 2012, ATS has embarked upon a busy schedule of new sports cars promising old-school fun and typically Italian good looks. MUST SEE: Enhanced Ayrton Senna NSX Video Shows The Importance Of...
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Meet The Modern Day ATS 2500 GT
The world doesn't really need any more shapely Italian sports cars, but it doesn't really seem right to complain about them so we're happy to roll with it. The latest is the ATS 2500 GT, part of a joint ATS and Ermini revival giving us extra options beyond the usual Ferraris, Lamborghinis...
Antony Ingram -
ATS Acquires Rights To Fellow Italian Brand De Tomaso: Report
There have been several attempts to revive once proud Italian sports car manufacturer De Tomaso, and now it looks like there’s set to be another. Most recently, a former Fiat manager acquired the rights to the brand and even unveiled a concept in 2011. The plans went sour and a new buyer was...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
ATS 300 Leggera Sports Car Revealed
The last couple of years have been tough on small sports car brands--Wiesmann, De Tomaso, Bristol, Artega and more have all gone bankrupt since 2011. But Italian automaker Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS) is ignoring all that and forging ahead with new models The latest is this, the 300 Leggera...
Antony Ingram -
ATS Sport 1000 Road-Legal Racer Hits The Market
Last month, we told you that two dormant Italian brands, Ermini and ATS, would soon be back on the market with new products. One of the expected cars from ATS was the Sport 1000, designed as a lightweight road car with serious track potential. In fact, the ATS Sport 1000 is very similar in concept...
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In the years after World War II, Pasquale Ermini rose to fame building small, lightweight race cars (called “Barchettas,” Italian for “little boats”) with engines around one liter in displacement. Ermini’s cars were successful, frequently besting competitors from companies like Osca, Ferrari and Porsche, and Americans became (somewhat) familiar with Ermini through the work of auto manufacturer Bill Devin. By 1963, the company was out of business, and a 2007 rebirth never panned out. Now comes word from Italy’s 0-100.it that a new Ermini barchetta, the 686...
