Pininfarina, the legendary Italian design residence behind the likes of Ferrari’s 250 GT Coupé, the Daytona and the Testarossa amongst fairly a couple of completely completely different classics, has teamed up with JAS Motorsport to offer the Italian racing group’s first road-going mannequin. And no, we doubt very masses that will probably be an RV created by AI.
Apart from the teaser beneath, neither JAS nor Pininfarina has revealed masses about this upcoming downside. All we do know is that will probably be “a really limited-edition manufacturing” and that the ultimate phrase design will solely be revealed in early 2026. Unsurprisingly, the under-wraps newboy typically is a high-performance freeway car, although a bit unexpectedly, it should don the JAS set up fairly than that of the Italian coach builder.
Electrical Propulsion… They Wouldn’t… Appropriate?
The issue is ready to reimagine “one in every of many iconic sports activities actions actions autos of the sooner” with Pininfarina overseeing the styling. That leaves JAS answerable for each the mechanical gubbins and the assemble on the group’s principal headquarters in Arluno, Milan. We’re furthermore fairly assured this is not going to be a full restomod downside an identical to the ECD Automotive Design’s Frankenstein Jaguar E-Selection or HWA’s 190E 2.5-16 Evo II, as a result of it ought to sit down on a mechanical platform “embracing the very newest automotive know-how.”
This in itself has led to a substantial amount of hypothesis. Although a donor chassis would possibly most likely be sourced by the group’s ongoing ties with Honda (the Japanese marque’s versatile HA chassis, for instance, already underpins the Civic, the CR-V crossover and the Integra sedan), JAS may go the Shoreline Bespoke route and design a chassis from scratch. It’s furthermore potential that JAS may modify the bespoke platform developed by Pininfarina for the Battista supercar launched in 2019. If you consider the group beforehand constructed a race car for the short-lived FIA Electrical Touring {{{Car}}} assortment, it’d counsel that the reimagined sports activities actions actions car – gasp – may function an all-electric drivetrain.
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It nearly undoubtedly gained’t be electrical, although. Any iconic sports activities actions actions car value its salt decisions some type of front-mounted, naturally aspirated six or eight-cylinder engine. There’s furthermore a substantial amount of hypothesis regarding the sports activities actions actions car to which this downside pays tribute. That curvaceous entrance fender means the Cadillac Allanté and Honda Beat are maybe out, not that that that they had been all through the working all through the primary place.
We’ll’t assist nonetheless uncover that Pininfarina’s participating Ferrari 550 Maranello and the explosively fast 599 GTB have pleasing their thirtieth and twentieth anniversaries, respectively, in 2026. That will most likely be attention-grabbing timing.
JAS Motorsport, inside the meantime, was based totally in 1996 and spent its childhood competing with Alfa Romeos all through the Worldwide Touring {{{Car}}} Championship, a precursor to Germany’s DTM. Further notable is the group’s partnership with Honda, which began in 1998 and have become official in 2002. Since then, JAS developed – and ran – the manufacturing unit Honda Civic Selection-Rs that went on to win practically two dozen races all through the World Touring {{{Car}}} Championship, and the WTCC title in 2013.