Supercars That Feel More Like Collectible Sculpture
The coachbuilt one-off is back, and collectors have never been more specific.
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In a small building outside Modena, a team of thirty-two people is working on four cars. Each will be delivered to a single client. Each will look, in some fundamental way, unlike anything that has come before.
The Coachbuilt Return
This is coachbuilding as it existed in the 1950s and, briefly, as it exists again now. The client is not simply a buyer but a co-author, and the finished car is understood by its makers as a piece of moving sculpture.
Millimeters and Memory
The changes can be subtle: a roofline lowered by millimeters, a switch remade in machined metal, a paint color mixed to match an old sailboat. They can also be radical, with entire bodies reshaped around a donor chassis.
Rarity Becomes Intimacy
The appeal is not only rarity. It is intimacy. A production supercar announces that one has acquired access. A coachbuilt car suggests a conversation no one else was invited to hear.
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