It’s the conclusion of Monterey Car Week, when all kinds of prestige and big cash expresses relief that it’s getting out of town after this wild, august happening before Hurricane Hilary makes a sodden mess of everything. Pininfarina, the Italian design legend, is a regular presence at Monterey, largely in the form of its coachwork-bodied cars on the show field at the Pebble Beach concours. This year, Automobili Pininfarina has introduced the B95, its first in-house, all-coachbuilt, EV barchetta roadster that offers open-top motoring with white-knuckle hypercar performance, a heady combination indeed.
The B95 name comes from “B” for barchetta, a close-coupled Italian roadster interpretation, and takes most of its styling cues from the PURA Vision design concept that was created by Pininfarina. A limited edition of just 10 B95s are scheduled to be produced worldwide, each with a projected cost of 4.4 million Euros, very much in keeping with the gigabucks that routinely fly around Monterey every August.
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