Competizione Ventidue is an idea restomod mixing Ferrari type with hydrogen energy

There’s a seemingly countless want for bespoke cars impressed by basic designs. Such ‘restomods’ are in close to fixed demand, whether or not they’re primarily based on stripped-down and rebuilt originals or begin from a clear sheet utilizing some direct inspiration (see the Porsche-inspired 928 by Nardone Automotive).

That is the Competizione Ventidue: a hydrogen-fuelled, excessive efficiency, Ferrari restomod idea created by London-based design studio Forge Design. Proper now, it’s solely an idea, impressed partially by a little bit of artistic reimagining and various history-making. 

‘We wished to reimagine the automobile that Miles Davis may need purchased simply after his album dropped,’ says Kieran Singleton, Forge Design’s managing director. ‘He was an enormous Ferrari fan and liked driving quick in stunning automobiles; that is imagined because the automobile he purchased, loved, upgraded and maybe even raced.’

The supply materials – along with Davis’ music – is the 1961 Ferrari 250 SWB, particularly the extremely refined ‘SEFAC Sizzling Rod’ variant, with ultra-light aluminium bodywork and a boosted engine. The automobile was a class-winner at Le Mans in 1961, serving to solidify the 250’s standing as the last word basic automobile funding (examples promote at public sale for upwards of $8m).

Maybe conscious of the hefty funding wanted to get its enterprise off the bottom, Forge Design has gone all-out for applied sciences that haven’t but hit the mainstream. These embody a hydrogen-burning engine and composite bodywork.

Ventidue (‘22’ in Italian) is extra attuned to the final days of the Fifties, with the designers citing 1959 because the yr of peak inspiration. This was when the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB was launched on the Paris Motor Present (the racing automobile’s ‘religious ancestor’), the yr Frank Lloyd Wright’s posthumous masterpiece, the New York Guggenheim, opened its doorways, and the yr Davis’ Type of Blue was launched.

‘We’ve all the time liked the basic strains of the Ferrari 250 GT SWB, and after seeing a development within the variety of restomod tasks not too long ago, actually wished to have a go at our personal,’ says Forge’s design director David Seesing. The studio is utilizing the idea to advertise its abilities at conceptual design, rendering, and modelling. 

The Ventidue makes for a hanging calling card, but it surely’s not the one 250 GT SWB restomod on the market – British specialist producer RML can construct a bespoke ‘Quick Wheelbase’ proper now, for round £1.6m.

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