The Automobili Pininfarina story
Automobili Pininfarina’s Battista brought a familiar design name to an electric hypercar manufacturer. Battista, Anniversario and Edizione Nino Farina form the main road-car family, while Targamerica and B95 explore more individual body and customer briefs. The car-making business should be distinguished from the wider historical design work associated with Pininfarina.
That distinction gives the profile its central interest. A strong design inheritance can set expectations, but the current manufacturer still has to express an identity through its own cars. We are particularly interested in whether the cabin, body and driving brief remain coherent when the same technical foundation supports a much more specialised commission.
Current lineup & programmes
Performance and specialist model families are listed below. Programme status describes the manufacturer’s published range or announcement, rather than stock or an available allocation. Open-top and special derivatives are grouped where they share a family; follow the model link for the distinctions.
Pininfarina Battista / Anniversario / Nino Farina / Targamerica
Current programme · 2010s
Pininfarina B95
Bespoke programme · 2020s
Past models
Past performance-car families relevant to our 1996–2026 archive. A surviving product page or conversion catalogue does not mean the original donor car remains in production.
This is a young programme without a separate completed road-model generation in our thirty-year archive. The current family and its development history are the starting point.
The SuperCarNews view
We think electric propulsion makes this design discussion more important, not less. When an engine's cylinder count no longer supplies an immediate identity, proportion, controls, material choices and the way performance is delivered must do more of the distinguishing work. A shared category or related technology does not automatically make two finished cars emotionally interchangeable.
The Battista's relatively flowing surfaces suggest an interest in a more composed visual statement. That is an interpretation of its appearance, not evidence about ride comfort. We would want to examine whether the cabin and low-speed behaviour sustain the same impression during ordinary use before describing it as a successful grand tourer.
Limited editions should also be explained through their actual changes. A paint treatment, a bespoke roof and a mechanical revision are different kinds of distinction. Readers deserve to know which one a particular name represents.
B95 is Pininfarina's open barchetta programme. Its relevance lies partly in the way it asks an electric hypercar to create a sense of occasion without a conventional enclosed cabin. The manufacturer treats it as a coachbuilt project, and our catalogue retains that programme context.
We find the idea intriguing because it changes the sensory balance. Exposure to the surroundings becomes central, while the propulsion system contributes differently from a large combustion engine. That does not make the experience inherently richer or poorer. It gives an eventual road assessment a different set of questions about airflow, comfort and how the occupants relate to the landscape.