Pininfarina
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Pininfarina wants to co-develop a modular platform for its future EVs and license it out to rival firms.
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Karma GT by Pininfarina bringing sultry looks to Monterey Car Week
Karma's sexy coupe concept penned by Pininfarina will make its U.S. debut this month in Monterey, California.
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Pininfarina Battista electric hypercar sports new face following aerodynamic tests
Pininfarina's Battista is priced at 2 million euros ($2.26 million) and limited to 150 units.
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Karma looks to the future with Pininfarina GT and Vision concepts
Karma used the Auto Shanghai 2019 to roll out three cars, two of which are concepts that hint at the brand's plans for the next decade.
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Teaser for Karma's Pininfarina-designed concept hints at coupe body
California's Karma will showcase its future plans with a trio of world premieres at next week's Auto Shanghai 2019. One will be a concept penned by Italy's Pininfarina, which appears to be a coupe judging by a new teaser released on Tuesday. A second teaser hints at a repeat of the mustache-shaped...
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Move over Ferrari, 1,877-hp Pininfarina Battista promises to be most-powerful Italian car yet
Battista "Pinin" (little brother) Farina always wanted to build a road car of his own. The man who founded the design firm Pininfarina 90 years ago never achieved his goal, but on Monday his namesake company, under the direction of his grandson Paolo, showed the production version of a car that...
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Karma, the electric car startup born out of the remains of the original Fisker, has teamed up with Italian design house and fellow EV startup Pininfarina to collaborate on future electric cars. The two firms announced Thursday that they will work together and that the first results of their collaboration could come as early as the second quarter of 2019. Without mentioning specifics, Pininfarina CEO Silvio Pietro Angori said in a statement that his firm has been tasked with helping Karma by lending its expertise in design. Karma's sole product is the Revero extended-range electric sedan...
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Pininfarina SUV will reportedly borrow Rivian tech
Pininfarina will launch itself into the car business in 2020 with the Battista electric hypercar (previously PF0), but it will follow up its first act with an electric SUV that will reportedly use engineering from American electric car startup Rivian. Autocar India reported the news on Friday...
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Pininfarina Battista is new name of electric Bugatti Chiron rival
Pininfarina Battista is the chosen name of the electric hypercar currently being developed by the new car manufacturing division of Italian design house and coachbuilder Pininfarina. Previously referred to by its code name PF0, the electric hypercar is scheduled for its debut next March at the 2019...
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Pininfarina PF0 will reportedly be world's most powerful car
The Pininfarina car brand plans for a portfolio of high-performance electric cars and the Italian firm wasn't joking when it declared a high-end positioning. The first car from Pininfarina, the code-named PF0 hypercar, will reportedly arrive with around 1,900 horsepower, or more than any other car...
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Pininfarina details “Pura” design language for future cars, PF0 hypercar almost fully revealed
The new Pininfarina car brand spun off earlier this year from the Italian design house and coachbuilder of the same name is working on a handful of models, all of them high-performance electric cars to be targeted at ultra-wealthy individuals. Naturally, Pininfarina is turning to its parent company...
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Rimac will build powertrain for Pininfarina PF0 electric hypercar
The experts in high-performance electric car technology at Rimac have been tapped to provide the powertrain for the PF0 electric hypercar being developed by Pininfarina. Rimac is most famous for its own electric hypercars, the most recent being the C_Two that debuted at the 2018 Geneva auto show...
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Italian design house and coachbuilder Pininfarina is in the process of launching its own car brand focused on high-performance, ultra-luxury vehicles. The first model will be an electric rival to the Bugatti Chiron. The car is code-named the PF0 and will be shown privately to prospective buyers during this week's Monterey Car Week. The public debut won't take place until the 2019 Geneva auto show next March. Attending Monterey Car Week will be Michael Perschke, the CEO of the newly established Pininfarina car brand. He will be joined by Paolo Pininfarina, chairman of Pininfarina and grandson...
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Pininfarina reveals more of electric Bugatti fighter, future plans
If you’re a storied brand waiting to break free, your best strategy is to make a big splash. Such is the situation of Pininfarina, which plans to launch a range of four new cars under its own name between 2020 and 2025, company executives told Motor Authority in a private meeting in New York...
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Hybrid Kinetic presents Pininfarina-styled K350 SUV and H500 sedan concepts in Beijing
Hybrid Kinetic is an electric car startup from China that hopes to enter the luxury arena with a full lineup powered by an extended-range electric powertrain that uses a microturbine as the range extender. The company is working with Pininfarina on the technology for its cars, with the Italian...
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Pininfarina PF0 hypercar will do 0-60 in under 2 seconds, debut in 2019
Mahindra, the parent company of Italian design firm Pininfarina, on Friday announced the formation of Automobili Pininfarina, a new automotive brand specializing in high-end electric cars. A soft-launch for Pininfarina will happen this year with a small run—just 12 cars—of the H2 Speed...
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Pininfarina launches EV brand, says electric hypercar coming in 2020
Plans are in place to launch high-end electric cars under the Pininfarina name. The new Automobili Pininfarina was launched on Friday in Rome, where Pininfarina parent company Mahindra is competing in this weekend's Formula E Championship round. Launching a car brand was a dream held by Pininfarina...
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Pininfarina confirms specs for production H2 Speed supercar
Pininfarina bosses are planning the launch of a premium electric car brand utilizing the name and talents of the Italian design house. And a Pininfarina-badged car has already been confirmed for production later in 2018. We are talking about the H2 Speed, an electric supercar that relies on a...
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Italian design house Pininfarina looks set to join a revived Lagonda and Polestar in the battle for luxury electric car supremacy. Pininfarina Chairman Paulo Pininfarina indicated as much during a speech made at this month's 2018 Geneva auto show, Motor1 reported on Friday. “My father’s dream was to build a car company and his father’s dream was also to build a car company,” Pininfarina said. “Now I plan for that dream to come true.” Pininfarina is referring of course to his father Sergio Pininfarina who expanded Pininfarina and turned it into the modern...
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Pininfarina H2 Speed supercar confirmed for production
Italian design house Pininfarina used the 2016 Geneva International Motor Show to unveil the H2 Speed concept. The sultry supercar featured a hydrogen fuel cell power source and provided a glimpse at a potential future for motorsports where race cars produce zero emissions. It turns out the concept...
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Pininfarina-styled HK GT concept debuts at Geneva auto show
Chinese electric car startup Hybrid Kinetic has unveiled a new concept car at a major auto show for the fourth time in less than two years. The latest study is the HK GT, described as an electric grand tourer powered by an extended-range electric powertrain. It made its debut on Tuesday at the 2018...
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Pininfarina enters Formula E as sponsor of Mahindra Racing
Pininfarina on Tuesday announced it is entering the Formula E Championship as a sponsor of Mahindra Racing. In a statement, the Italian design house said its decades of experience crafting cars will help Mahindra Racing in developing its Formula E race cars, starting with the M5Electro being...
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One of six Ferrari Sergios is for sale for $5 million
The Ferrari Sergio—produced to mark the 85th anniversary of Pininfarina and the late Sergio Pininfarina—may not be the Prancing Horse's best-known sports car, but it's certainly one of the rarer modern nameplates Ferrari has produced. In fact, only six of them were built and each was...
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Pininfarina to develop modular platform for Iran’s national automaker
Iran’s national automaker, Iran Khodro, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with nine leading automotive firms to help develop a modular platform to underpin a new generation of cars for its IKCO brand. The list includes firms specializing in engines, transmissions, chassis systems and...
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