Pininfarina Battista
There are some very high-calibre, very unaffordable, very rare cars at the Toronto show this year. A notch beyond supercars, you have the hyper-cars. The kind of cars that belong to billionaires.
The Pininfarina Battista is a member of this very small family of cars. The all-electric 1,900-hp model (with technology supplied by Rimac) was presented last year at the Geneva Motor Show and this will probably be its only visit on Canadian soil. The company plans on building 150 of them for the world, at a unit cost of $2.6 million.
Worthy of the greatest Italian designs of the past, its styling is a neo-retro mix that encompasses a modern style with a nod to the 1960s.
The huge 120-kWh battery theoretically reaches a top speed of 350 km/h and supplies a range of 450 km. Like any self-respecting unaffordable car, there's no real luggage space; you can however purchase small, custom-made suitcases that cost a lot of money and fit in a compartment behind the driver and passenger.