There are vehicle builders whose cars have retreated exclusively in the garage of the vintage car fans as a pretext. Five of these names will be revived at the Geneva Salon and will electrify the audience completely.
Lagonda, Hispano Suiza, Pininfarina, Giugiaro – the names of great names in automotive history will be featured at the Geneva Motor Show this year from 7 to 17 March. But with the glorious past, the current projects have little to do – on the contrary. Their concepts and production vehicles look ahead even more than most established manufacturers: they all show vehicles for the future of electric cars. Matching the noble ambience on Lake Geneva, the future collector’s items are, of course, highly exclusive and – if ever available – hard to
Pininfarina Battista
After decades of history as a car design studio and body construction companies with projects such as Alfa Romeo Duetto, Fiat Spider or Ferrari Dino Pininfarina wants to enter the luxury car market with the Battista announced for Geneva – exclusively with electric vehicles. To this end, the now owned by the Indian Mahindra Group Italians have recently entered into a commercial partnership with the drive and sports car manufacturer Rimac.
The electric coupe Battista, named after the company founder who died in 1966, is said to be the most powerful and fastest Italian car of all time. The engine output is the company with 1926 hp, the maximum speed should be beyond 400 km / h. As a range almost 500 kilometers are called. The launch of Hypercars Italian plan for 2020, a maximum of 150 copies for the price of about two million euros to be built.
Lagonda “All-Terrain Concept”
Aston Martin has already announced in the spring of 2018 that its subsidiary Lagonda will in the future only build electric cars. Already a few years ago, the British had tried to revive the brand with the limited luxury sedan Lagonda Taraf. The British car brand Lagonda made in the 1920s and 30s, inter alia, by racing success a name, after the Second World War, the company became part of Aston Martin. In Geneva, the manufacturer now gives a preview of a second new model:
A production version of the electric SUV “All-Terrain Concept” could, according to speculation, as well as the presented in the last year e-sedan 2021 come on the market. Both models are based on the same electric platform, which allows for some freedom of design, such as the lack of a long bonnet in favor of more space inside. A first picture shows a wide, for an SUV unusually crouched front view. For technical details, Lagonda is covered, but also in terms of drive technology, the models should be closely related. In the electric sedan it was said that a solid battery with about 640 kilometers range should take over the power supply of at least two electric motors.
Giugiaro “Hyper-SUV”
The design of the Kangaroo goes in a similar direction: With the “Hyper-SUV”, the design company GFG Progetti, founded by design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio in 2015, introduces a new vehicle category. The purely electrically powered concept car combines sports car with SUV elements. Giugiaro’s very sporty CFRP outer shell is based on an aluminum spaceframe, which was developed together with the CH Auto electric drive.
For the two-seater with all-wheel drive and four-wheel steering GFG promises impressive performance: Sun is the Kangaroo sprint in 3.5 seconds from a standstill to 100 and faster than 250 km / h – on any terrain. Whether it is a pure design exercise or the Kangaroo offers a view of a possible production model, the Italians do not say yet. Founded by Giugiaro and now part of the VW Group, the car manufacturer Italdesign has over decades created design icons, such as BMW M1, Delorean DMC-12 or VW Golf I.
Hispano Suiza Carmen
The Spanish car brand Hispano Suiza emerges time and again with concept vehicles from the sinking. Now celebrates the electrically powered luxury sports car Carmen premiere. Much will not be revealed about the e-athlete developed and built in Barcelona. A photo shows a carbon monocoque chassis, base for a two-door body with elongated coupe rear.
The design should be inspired by classic shapes, but the technology of the next generation of cars. For the unspecified electric drive, engineers from QEV Technologies, who have already gained experience with the development of Formula E vehicles, are responsible. Hispano-Suiza has not built any cars since the late 1930s, and from time to time it makes talk of concept cars at the Geneva Motor Show. The last sign of life, the V10 Supercharged, is nine years back.