Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera
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Touring Superleggera is celebrating its 95th anniversary with a new supercar based on the bones of a Ferrari.
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Touring Superleggera reveals Ferrari F12-based Aero 3 coupe
Lovers of hand-crafted Italian sports cars have a new creation from the artisans at Touring Superleggera to drool over.
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Touring Superleggera's Maserati-based Sciadipersia now available in US
Italian coachbuilder Touring Superleggera is entering the U.S. market with a coupe and convertible known as the Sciadipersia.
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Coachbuilder presents Maserati-based Sciadipersia Cabriolet at Villa d’Este
Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera used the occasion of the past weekend's Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este to roll out the Sciadipersia Cabriolet. The car is the convertible version of last year's Sciadipersia coupe, and like its fixed-roof sibling, the Sciadipersia...
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Jay Leno drives Touring Superleggera's Maserati-based Sciadipersia
Following its revival last decade, Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera jumped straight back into doing what it does best: churning out beautiful, one-off, coach-built cars. Recent hits include the Alfa Romeo Competizione-based Disco Volante and F12-based Berlinetta Lusso. The latest creation, however...
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Touring Superleggera returns with Maserati-based Sciadipersia
Italy's Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera is back with a new coachbuilt special based on the Maserati GranTurismo. The car is called the Sciadipersia, which is Italian for “Shah of Iran,” linking this modern creation with the commission of three bespoke Maserati 5000GTs completed in the...
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German sports car marque Artega in 2015 and announced plans to focus purely on electric performance, and since then the company has presented the Scalo sports car and Karo quad bike. Artega says those vehicles served as testbeds for its first production electric car, the Scalo Superelletra, which was presented this week at the 2017 Geneva auto show. The design was penned by Italian firm Touring Superleggara and has clearly been influenced by the lines of the original Scalo. The Scalo Superelletra is a very different beast under the skin, however. Power comes from four electric motors, two at...
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Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera returns with Disco Volante Spyder
Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera is back with another hit, this time a convertible version of 2013’s stunning Alfa Romeo Disco Volante coupe. The Disco Volante is a modern take on the equally stunning 1952 Alfa Romeo C52 Disco Volante and is based on the bones of the Alfa...
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Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera To Build Just Five Examples Of Stunning Berlinetta Lusso: Video
Coachbuilt Ferraris aren't anything new. The sumptuous sheet metal cloaking many of Enzo Ferrari's early efforts was actually crafted by legendary names like Pininfarina and Scaglietti, as "Il Commendatore" was famously focused on his symphonic 12-cylinders. Case in point? This famous quote: "I...
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Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera’s Ferrari F12-Based Berlinetta Lusso Revealed: Video
Remember Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera’s awesome Alfa Romeo Disco Volante? Well, the hand-built masterpiece based on the 8C Competizione supercar proved so popular that the Italian coachbuilder has decided to do another project just like it, this time based on the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta...
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Touring Disco Volante Colored Up For Geneva: Live Photos And Video
It first arrived on the scene in concept form back in 2012. Milanese coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera then produced a production version for last year's Geneva Motor Show. We're talking, of course, about the Disco Volante, which takes an elegant, shapely machine and transforms it even...
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Alfa Romeo 8C Disco Volante: The Sound, At Villa d'Este
Funky-hot and retro-modern, the Carrozzeria Touring Superlegerra Alfa Romeo 8C Disco Volante channels the best of the classic Italian coachbuilding ethos, but filters it through a modern lens. The result is breathtaking. Fortunately it sounds the part, too. Filmed at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa...
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Touring Superleggera’s Disco Volante is without doubt one of the most beautiful cars on show this week at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, though this isn’t a concept like we saw at last year’s show but a production model the Italian coachbuilder is now taking orders for. Touring has confirmed it will build a maximum 500 Disco Volantes, each of them tailored to suit the demands of their individual--and discerning--buyers. Starting with an Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Touring strips down the car to its bare essentials. The steel spaceframe chassis with separate structural elements...
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Touring Superleggera Disco Volante To Enter Production
One of the most intriguing cars at last year’s Geneva Motor Show was a modern interpretation of the 1952 Alfa Romeo C52 Disco Volante, originally crafted by a firm called Carrozzeria Touring, which has evolved into a company called Touring Superleggera. Touring Superleggera’s modern...
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Touring Superleggera Disco Volante 2012 Live Photos: 2012 Geneva Motor Show
Italian coachbuilder Touring Superleggera is showing the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione-based Disco Volante 2012 at this week's Geneva Motor Show.
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Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante 2012 Revealed
In the early 1950s, Alfa Romeo, together with the help of Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring, was working on a series of concept cars used to test new technologies that could be easily adapted for racing. One of these was the 1952 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante (C52), which was based on the...
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Gumpert Tornante By Touring Superleggera Preview: 2011 Geneva Motor Show
Shedding its funky, lego-man exterior for a sleeker, Touring Superleggera-designed skin, Gumpert has moved past the Apollo and on to the Tornante. It's an upgrade, and it goes deeper than the surface. About 220 pounds lighter than the Apollo thanks in part of a carbon monocoque and composite body...
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2011 Geneva Motor Show Preview: Gumpert Tornante By Touring Superleggera
In just a few weeks time we’re about to see a handful of new supercar models launched. Of course, we’re talking about the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, which will see the separate unveilings of the new Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, Pagani Hauyra, Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package, Ferrari FF as...
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The Bentley Shooting Brake will be available for limited order.
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Carrozzeria A8 GCS Berlinetta Concept
Recently we featured a stunning Maserati Quattroporte wagon concept by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera, an Italian coachbuilder that gained some fame in its hey day. It seems as though Carrozzeria is staging a comeback at this years 'Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este' with the introduction of yet...
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Carrozzeria Touring Returning With New Superleggera
One of Italy’s oldest coachbuilders is set to revive its car making business after several decades in hibernation despite the troubled times of many of its closest rivals. The company is Carrozzeria Touring, a coachbuilder first established in 1926 and responisble for a number of cars from...
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