Pininfarina, the legendary Italian design house behind the likes of Ferrari’s 250 GT Coupé, the Daytona and the Testarossa among countless other classics, has teamed up with JAS Motorsport to produce the Italian racing team’s first road-going model. And no, we doubt very much that it will be an RV created through AI.
Aside from the teaser below, neither JAS nor Pininfarina has revealed much about this upcoming project. All we do know is that it will be “an extremely limited-edition production” and that the final design will only be revealed in early 2026. Unsurprisingly, the under-wraps newboy will be a high-performance road car, though a little unexpectedly, it will don the JAS name rather than that of the Italian coach builder.
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The project is set to reimagine “one of the most iconic sports cars of the past” with Pininfarina overseeing the styling. That leaves JAS in charge of both the mechanical gubbins and the build at the team’s main headquarters in Arluno, Milan. We’re also pretty confident this will not be a full restomod project like the ECD Automotive Design’s Frankenstein Jaguar E-Type or HWA’s 190E 2.5-16 Evo II, as it will sit on a mechanical platform “embracing the very latest automotive technology.”
This in itself has led to plenty of speculation. Though a donor chassis could be sourced through the team’s ongoing ties with Honda (the Japanese marque’s flexible HA chassis, for example, already underpins the Civic, the CR-V crossover and the Integra sedan), JAS could go the Shoreline Bespoke route and design a chassis from scratch. It’s also possible that JAS could modify the bespoke platform developed by Pininfarina for the Battista supercar launched in 2019. When you consider the team previously built a race car for the short-lived FIA Electric Touring Car series, it could mean that the reimagined sports car – gasp – might feature an all-electric drivetrain.
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It almost certainly won’t be electric, though. Any iconic sports car worth its salt features some form of front-mounted, naturally aspirated six or eight-cylinder engine. There’s also plenty of speculation about the sports car to which this project will pay tribute. That curvaceous front fender means the Cadillac Allanté and Honda Beat are probably out, not that they were in the running in the first place.
We can’t help but notice that Pininfarina’s gorgeous Ferrari 550 Maranello and the explosively quick 599 GTB celebrate their 30th and 20th anniversaries, respectively, in 2026. That could be interesting timing.
JAS Motorsport, meanwhile, was founded in 1996 and spent its formative years competing with Alfa Romeos in the International Touring Car Championship, a precursor to Germany’s DTM. More notable is the team’s partnership with Honda, which started in 1998 and became official in 2002. Since then, JAS developed – and ran – the factory Honda Civic Type-Rs that went on to win nearly two dozen races in the World Touring Car Championship, and the WTCC title in 2013.
Source: JAS Motorsport
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