NEW Hypercars Some time ago at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix racing event held on May 3, 2023, you can see there's an exhibition activities carried out by the Turin-based automaker, Laffite Automobili. In fact, it was not an impromptu event, the company had announced 1 month ago with the tagline that it wants to create a real revolution by launching its first model.
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Laffite Automobili launched five
electric hypercars at once (from left to right) such the Laffite Atrax
Off-Road, the Atrax Stradale, the LM1, the Barchetta Coupe, and the
Barchetta at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix 2023. (Picture from: NewsRnD) |
Maybe some of you are unfamiliar with the Italian auto manufacturer. This is commonplace because the auto brand formed by Bruno Laffite together with Pascal Cohen in 1998 was originally managing race track and karting school academies. Their common passion for racing and vison for street legal racing cars started 30 years ago, and still remain.
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| The Laffite LM1 prototype has an exterior appearance that is very thick with the spirit of the 24-Hours Le Mans race. (Picture from: 20Minutes.fr) |
After the auto company founded, it's known the Laffite completed its first hypercars design and engineering processes in 2014, then its first street legal SUV hypercar, the Laffite X Road went out of productions in 2019 and got immediately sold out. |
| The Laffite LM1 prototype posed along with the company founder Bruno Laffite and Pascal Cohen. (Picture from: Carscoops) |
The auto marque is known in collaboration with several famous names in world's automotive such Fabrizio and Giorgetto Giugiaro, the two Italian creative souls of GFG Style, an independent and established style center. As well as, L.M. Gianetti, the renowned Turin-based engineering and automobile manufacturing company.
They have been linked together as the best teams to create the most prestigious ever hypercar lines. And today, once again Laffite making history. For the first time in the industry, 3 electric hypercars are revealed the same day, during the Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix.
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| The Laffite Barchetta featuring with a single glass canopy. (Picture from: AutoDesignMagazine) |
In the heart of the F1 village, which is hosted to the announcement and launching event of the first 3 models of the brand, the Laffite LM1, the Atrax and the Barchetta, as well as their first two variations, the Atrax Stradale and the Barchetta Coupe was made by company.
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| Interior view of the Laffite Barchetta. (Picture from: Carscoops) |
Furthermore all those three models can be classified as electric-powered hypercars, which are the result of the design work of GFG Style which was fronted by master Giorgetto Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio after leaving Italdesign. As quoted from 20Minutes.fr, the launch of these three hypercars at once is intended to pay homage to several motor sport disciplines which is reflected in their respective names.
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| The Laffite Barchetta Coupe featuring with a double-bubble cockpit. (Picture from: AutoDesignMagazine) |
Well, the company's first car model is the Laffite LM1 which has an exterior appearance that is very thick with the spirit of the 24-Hours Le Mans race. Even though it is thick with the style of a racing car, it can be driven on the road.
As mentioned before this hypercar is powered by an electric motor capable of spitting out a maximum power of 1,167 hp and a peak torque of 2,500 Nm to drive all-the-wheels, so it can accelerate from rest to 100 kph in just 1.9 seconds and send it running up to a top speed of around 350 kph.
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| The Laffite Atrax (in pictured was Stradale version) proposed as a sporty SUV with an exaggerated and extreme shape with important volumes and generous roominess, allowing for a 2+1 seat architecture. (Picture from: AutoDesignMagazine) |
The second model named the Laffite Barchetta, which featured the most unique design among the three models exhibited by Lafitte Automobili at the time, but was also the least power of them. Its electric motor will produce 578 hp of power and 990 Nm of torque, which makes it reach 100 kph in 3.5 seconds. It will also have the shortest electric range, capable of traveling an estimated 242 miles (390 km) per charge.
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| The Laffite Atrax presented in two versions, ie the off-road version and the Stradale version, designed to tackle urban roads. (Picture from: Carscoops) |
As you can see, indeed the car’s true highlight is the design. By featuring a double-bubble cockpit (or a single glass canopy for the Coupe version) and a kind of roll bars (halo) that offers rollover protection, the car looks more like a concept than a production vehicle.
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| The Laffite Atrax (in pictured was the off-road version) featured with butterfly doors, a carbon monocoque, and an F1-style steering wheel. (Picture from: TheMilliardaire) |
The last model was Laffite Atrax is proposed as a sporty SUV with an exaggerated and extreme shape with important volumes and generous roominess, allowing for a 2+1 seat architecture. As you can see this all-electric crossover featured with butterfly doors, a carbon monocoque, and an F1-style steering wheel.
While its drivetrain claimed to be burted out power of 1,151 hp and 2,500 Nm of torque. That will get the 4,850 lbs (or approx 2,200 kg) vehicle accelerated up to 100 kph) in just 3.8 seconds, and onto a top speed of 240 kph. The SUV is offered in either its aggressive stock configuration, or in the more road-focused Stradale trim.
Furthermore, Laffite says that it has spent more than 15,000 hours engineering each vehicle, and the company plans to sell between 24 and 26 of each model. For instance, it says the automaker will build 26 Atrax SUVs, with a starting price of $1.69 million, and said that deliveries of the first Atraxes are expected to begin in March 2024. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LAFFITE AUTOMOBILI | THEMILLIARDAIRE | CARSCOOPS | TOPGEAR | AUTOMOTIVEEV | AUTODESIGNMAGAZINE | NEWSBREAK | 20MINUTES.FR | NEWSRND | ]
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