PF0 HYPERCAR PRESENTATION IS REALISATION OF AN 'AMERICAN DREAM' SAYS PAOLO PININFARINA (FOTO)

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> Paolo Pininfarina explains significance of PF0 hypercar private
presentations in new short film: https://youtu.be/ZFQ0BkOUKo0
> Automobili Pininfarina CEO, Michael Perschke joined by Pininfarina
SpA Chairman Paolo Pininfarina and Mahindra & Mahindra Chairman Anand
Mahindra in Pebble Beach
> Exquisite examples of Pininfarina-designed cars set to draw
discerning collectors to auctions throughout Monterey Car Week

Company Chairman Paolo Pininfarina underlined the importance of
the Pininfarina SpA-designed PF0 hypercar making its global premiere
in North America this week, revealing in a new short film details of
his grandfather's first visit to Detroit almost 100 years ago. The
film may be viewed or shared from Automobili Pininfarina's new
YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ZFQ0BkOUKo0

This week's Monterey Car Week and its showpiece finale, the Pebble
Beach Concours d'Elegance, will host the first ever viewings of
Automobili Pininfarina's debut car, the fully electric, luxury
hypercar codenamed PF0.

Automobili Pininfarina CEO Michael Perschke and Design Director
Luca Borgogno will be joined in Monterey by Anand Mahindra, Chairman
of Mahindra & Mahindra and Paolo Pininfarina, Pininfarina SpA
Chairman and grandson of the famous styling house's founder, Battista
'Pinin' Farina.

Pininfarina said: "Our American dream was established in the 1920s
even before the company was formed. My grandfather, Battista, visited
Ford and at the end of his tour had lunch with Henry Ford who asked
him to become their chief stylist. But he had other ideas and the
rest is automotive history."

Michael Perschke, CEO Automobili Pininfarina said: "We are looking
forward to presenting the PF0 design model created by Pininfarina SpA
to clients and specialist retailers over the coming days. But our
time at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and in the Monterey
auction houses will also be a highlight. We will celebrate
Pininfarina's unique place in automotive history and undoubtedly pick
up further inspiration for our future range of cars from these
Italian masterpieces."

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Monterey Car Week
events are a traditional high-point in the automotive calendar for
owners and investors in Pininfarina-styled landmark cars. 2016's
Pebble Beach 'Best in Show' was the stunning 1936 Lancia Asturia
Pinin Farina Cabriolet. In 2017, the 1955 Ferrari 375 Plus Pinin
Farina Cabriolet Speciale was announced as the 'Most Elegant Sports
Car' at the Concours.

Automobili Pininfarina PF0 at Monterey Car Week

Automobili Pininfarina was announced in April, in Rome, as the
world's newest car brand, with an ambition to sustainably develop and
produce fully-electric, ultra-luxury cars at the pinnacle of design
and desirability in their respective segments. In July, in New York,
Automobili Pininfarina presented initial design concepts for the
company's first car codenamed PF0, and confirmed that it will be
designed and hand-crafted by legendary Italian automotive styling
house Pininfarina SpA.

The Monterey Car Week now takes centre stage for Automobili
Pininfarina. The first ever private viewings of PF0 will take place
in Pebble Beach between August 23rd and 26th to luxury and classic
car buyers showing significant interest in the car and brand. A
full-scale design intent model will reveal full details of how Luca
Borgogno and the Pininfarina SpA team under Group Design Director
Carlo Bonzanigo have envisioned the PF0's combination of design and
technology. In addition, further interior design details and views
from the cockpit will be presented to highlight the craftmanship
inside the car, and the classic Pininfarina focus on both driver and
passenger experience.

Borgogno has devised a simple design brief for Pininfarina SpA to
create the most beautiful, all-electric hypercar in the world. The
PF0 design is being developed by the Pininfarina SpA Design Studio
under the management of Pininfarina Group Design Director, Carlo
Bonzanigo and no more than 150 PF0s will then be hand-crafted in
Cambiano, Italy by the Pininfarina SpA Atelier from 2020. Together
they will deliver a hypercar with unmatched standards of performance,
beauty and elegance, combining form and function in perfect harmony,
and with innovative technology and packaging.

The limited-run, luxury electric hypercar will take pride of place
in automotive history. As the first solely-branded Pininfarina
production car it will introduce a future range of luxury electric
cars that deliver on a long-held Pininfarina family dream of a
stand-alone Pininfarina car company.

Automobili Pininfarina Design Overview

Luca Borgogno's role in defining the PF0 design brief follows his
appointment as Automobili Pininfarina's Design Director earlier this
year after 14 years as one of the lead automotive designers at
Pininfarina SpA.

Having worked together for many years, Borgogno and Bonzanigo will
channel almost 90 years of Pininfarina's unparalleled design
expertise into the styling and creation of all Automobili
Pininfarina's cars. The final PF0 design will be passed to the
Pininfarina SpA Atelier team in Cambiano, Italy. This group of
experienced automotive artisans will hand-build the cars to exacting
standards and deliver the first PF0 in 2020, confirming to the world
the arrival of Automobili Pininfarina.

Borgogno's vision for every future Automobili Pininfarina car
takes inspiration from his favourite Pininfarina cars including the
1947 Cisitalia 202, the 1970 512S Modulo, and the 2008 hydrogen
fuel-cell powered shooting brake concept Sintesi. He has clear goals
in mind for Automobili Pininfarina cars to be elegant, clean and pure
in surfaces and volumes, and which, as a whole, present objects of
beauty with hints at innovation, technology and speed.

"We are defining a car that is not overdesigned; we want something
that is super clean and looks impossibly simple. Whenever you look
back at classic Pininfarina cars, these qualities stand out,"
Borgogno said.

Two unique elements combined will set Automobili Pininfarina cars
apart from other luxury cars. Firstly, the car's design provenance:
Pininfarina SpA has styled many of the world's most iconic cars, a
number of which have been celebrated at the famous Pebble Beach
Concours d'Elegance.

Secondly, fundamental to all Pininfarina-designed cars is an
absolute desire to deliver innovation in engineering, technology and
performance wrapped in a beautiful skin. As a result, the PF0 will
incorporate extreme levels of technology and functional design: a
carbon-fibre exterior and chassis supporting staggering performance
for a road car, accelerating from standstill to 100 km/h in less than
two seconds, breaking the 300 km/h top speed barrier, and providing a
potential zero emissions range of up to 500 kms.

Automobili Pininfarina PF0 Design in Detail

Recently released sketch images of the PF0 have revealed a full
carbon body that is curvaceous and sculptural, and encased in
sweeping glass. A single dynamic strip of light cascades from the
front of the car and takes the place of traditional headlights.

Inside the car, the cockpit must be equally as inspiring as the
exterior design in both form and function. Pininfarina SpA is
defining what Borgogno calls a 'vanishing point' concept for the main
dashboard display which will be both unique and exciting, focusing
the driver's attention - a new definition of a driver-centric layout.

Core to this concept are two screens located either side of a
compact steering wheel and angled towards the driver. Conventional
dials have been eliminated and replaced with a head-up display (HUD)
delivering all the vital information.

Automobili Pininfarina anticipates PF0 owners will be experienced
at track driving in modern performance cars - and even racing cars -
and therefore familiar with HUD. Nick Heidfeld, the brand's
Development Driver and brand ambassador will focus as much on how the
occupants relate with the interior at speed as they do on action
outside the cockpit. With his unprecedented level of Formula 1 and
Formula E experience, a key role for Heidfeld will be ensuring the
HUD and all necessary in-car controls fall easily to hand and are
instantly accessible and understood in all driving conditions.

Luca Borgogno: "Pininfarina cars are renowned for their interior
design as much as the exterior, and this isn't simply limited to the
layout of the dash and the quality of the materials. How an occupant
feels in the car at all times, how he or she changes their
point-of-view from inside to outside without distraction, and how
they relate to information sources, is as important to us as
Pininfarina SpA's exterior design principles."

Borgogno and Perschke are anticipating a landmark design for PF0
that is inspired by Pininfarina's classic cars. And this expectation
is also a goal for the technology and sustainability within the car.
Surfaces and screens will provide the portals to infotainment and
connectivity, supported by future-proof infotainment and software
from innovative technology partners. Meanwhile materials will be
ethically sourced, and consist of natural woods and paints without
chemical ingredients.

'We want owners and passengers to really live with this car and be
proud of its provenance and what it says about them. So the design
execution will deliver both a reassuringly luxurious, comfortable and
entertaining interior, and a traditional 'Pininfarina' experience as
a whole. Pininfarina SpA's historic values of elegance and simplicity
provide us with a great opportunity to stand out from the design of
most current supercars and hypercars," Borgogno concluded.

To register your interest in PF0 or to access the media kit,
please visit: www.automobili-pininfarina.com

Contact:
Dan Connell - Chief Brand Officer
(M) +44 (0) 7464 039401
Email: d.connell@automobili-pininfarina.com

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