Perfect Formula: Rosberg Joins First Clients at Pininfarina Battista Premiere in Geneva (FOTO)

Geneva (ots) -

- Landmark pure-electric luxury Pininfarina Battista revealed at a
gala VIP event on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show.
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- Three Battistas and a unique Battista-liveried Mahindra Racing
Formula E racing car highlight the hyper GT's beauty, personalisation
potential and electric performance

- 2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg joined Automobili
Pininfarina to celebrate a shared vision for electrification and
sustainability

- Anand Mahindra, Michael Perschke, Paolo Pininfarina, Nick
Heidfeld, Mate Rimac, Jerome D'Ambrosio and Pascal Wehrlein
celebrated the Battista's arrival

- Hypercar-engineering guru Rene Wollmann announced as Automobili
Pininfarina Programme Director, Sportscars

- Pininfarina Battista full press kit and image suite available
here (https://bit.ly/2EMYdtL)

- Applications to own Battista may be made through the Automobili
Pininfarina website: Apply Now
(https://www.automobili-pininfarina.com/viewing)

A landmark occasion in electric car desirability and performance
was celebrated in Geneva on Monday night (4th March) when Michael
Perschke, Automobili Pininfarina CEO, Anand Mahindra, Mahindra Group
Chairman and Paolo Pininfarina, Pininfarina SpA Chairman, unveiled
the Pininfarina-designed pure-electric luxury hyper GT Battista at a
gala VIP event on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show.

Michael Perschke, CEO, Automobili Pininfarina, said: "The Battista
represents a beautiful dream for us all. In just 12 months we have
set up an amazing new electric car brand that delivers on the
Pininfarina-family dream to see a luxury car solely badged
Pininfarina. The best possible technical partners have joined us on
this journey to develop the Battista with zero emissions and more
power than is possible from an internal combustion engine. The
Battista represents purity, beauty and rarity, and a vision for
sustainability that appeals to the heart as much as the head. It will
be the most powerful car ever designed and built in Italy and will
make you fall in love with electric power."

In celebration of the Battista's electric performance and the
spotlight it shines on automotive sustainability, its reveal was
shared by Nico Rosberg, the 2016 FIA Formula 1 World Champion, and
the presentation of a Mahindra Racing Formula E car with bespoke
Battista livery.

The Battista will set new performance landmarks for a road-legal
car and forms the core of Automobili Pininfarina's sustainable
automotive strategy that will be strengthened at Rosberg's GREENTECH
FESTIVAL in Berlin in May. Automobili Pininfarina has been invited to
host the Battista's German launch at the 2019 GREENTECH FESTIVAL and
celebrate a mutual ambition between the two organisations to promote
the rapid development of green technologies, accelerate a positive
change in car ownership and excite people about electric motoring.

The Battista encompasses a vision of beauty and sustainability,
delivering 1,900 hp and zero emissions in classic Pininfarina style,
where form and function are elegantly combined in a beautiful carbon
body. The Battista is the first electric car to truly fall in love
with.

Following on from their unveiling last night, 4th March, the three
all-electric Battistas received their public world premieres on the
Automobili Pininfarina and Pininfarina SpA stands at the Geneva
International Motor Show, which runs from 5th March to 17th March.

Automobili Pininfarina and partners re-define the electric car
brand

Automobili Pininfarina presented the Battista in three distinct
and elegant design specifications and colours: a Blu Iconica Battista
featuring the Iconica by Automobili Pininfarina design pack; a Grigio
Luserna satin grey car with satin blue accents and anodized aluminium
detailing; and a third Battista in a pure pearlescent white called
Bianco Sestriere. In describing the three Battistas, Design Director
Luca Borgogno underlined a unified purity of purpose for the car: to
be the world's most desirable electric car.

Demonstrating Automobili Pininfarina's desire to produce the
world's most sought-after all-electric hypercar, the Munich-based
company also announced an exciting addition to its engineering team.
Rene Wollman has joined Automobili Pininfarina as Programme Director,
Sportscars. Wollmann brings a wealth of experience to the Battista
programme having most recently managed the launch of possibly the
most extreme motorsport-inspired road car ever, the AMG ONE hypercar.

Wollmann takes his place alongside an enviable line-up of experts
excited by the challenge to launch the Battista, including Test and
Development Driver Nick Heidfeld, Chief Technical Officer Christian
Jung and Senior Technical Advisor Peter Tutzer.

The Battista reveal was accompanied by Automobili Pininfarina's
closest collaborators, Pininfarina SpA, Mahindra Racing, Rimac
Automobili and Pirelli SpA.

- Pininfarina SpA has designed the Battista and will hand-build
the luxury hyper GT in Italy at its famous Cambiano headquarters,
with the first Battista arriving during the Carrozzeria's 90th
anniversary.

- Mahindra Racing currently leads the Formula E Team and Drivers'
Championships and has contributed vital engineering expertise in
electric performance generated over five years in Formula E.

- Rimac Automobili will adapt its world-beating battery technology
to the demands and desires of the connoisseurs and collectors who
will take ownership of the Battista.

- Pirelli SpA is developing a tyre programme to ensure the
Battista's full power can be appreciated as much as its Pininfarina
design, with the Battista show cars featuring bespoke Pirelli 21-inch
tyres on dramatic new unique rims.

In hosting the powertrain of the future in an elegant yet
functionally efficient carbon fibre body and chassis featuring double
wishbone coil over suspension, the Battista will shatter traditional
performance targets set by machinery powered by any internal
combustion engine. Yet it will do this with a focus on luxury and
drivability that offers a targeted 450-kilometre range and a level of
comfort and connectivity that will tempt owners to take to the roads
more than the track.

In redefining electric vehicle dynamics in a Pininfarina-badged
car, the Battista has the distinct potential to become an instant
collector's item, particularly as no more than 150 will ever be
built, all delivered to their owners through a global network of the
world's most respected luxury and performance car retailers.

For more information and media kit, please visit
www.automobili-pininfarina.com

Editor's notes

Automobili Pininfarina is based in operational headquarters in
Munich, Germany, with a team of experienced automotive executives
from luxury and premium car brands. Designed, developed and produced
in Germany and Italy, all models will be sold and serviced in all
major global markets under the brand name Pininfarina. The new
company aims to be the most sustainable luxury car brand in the
world.

The company is a 100 per cent Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd investment
and has been named Automobili Pininfarina following the signing of a
trademark licence agreement between Pininfarina SpA and Mahindra &
Mahindra Ltd. Pininfarina SpA will take an influential role in
supporting design and production capacities based on their unique
almost 90-year experience of producing many of the world's most
iconic cars.

Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra, Paolo Pininfarina,
Chairman of Pininfarina SpA, and Dr. Pawan Goenka, Chairman, Mahindra
Racing, launched the new car brand with Michael Perschke, CEO,
Automobili Pininfarina at the Rome Formula E race on 13th April 2018.
Mahindra has quickly built up experience of cutting-edge
'race-to-road' sustainable high-performance technological innovation
having competed in every Formula E race since the world's most
innovative motor racing series began in 2013.

Automobili Pininfarina will combine this 'in-house' expertise in
partnership with some of the world's leading automotive design and
engineering suppliers to support its aggressive targets for
performance and market launch in late 2020.

Pressekontakt:
Dan Connell - Chief Brand Officer
(M) +49 (0) 16055 30318
Email: d.connell@automobili-pininfarina.com

Luca Rubino - Digital Communications
(M) +49 (0) 17841 16025
Email: l.rubino@automobili-pininfarina.com

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