Design and Build Your Very Own Prototype
- Classic Masterpiece or State-of-the-Art Prototype -
 

 
Examples of modern prototypes from around the world: (Above, left to right)
Veritas RS III Prototype • Mazda Furai Concept • Porsche 918 Spyder Concept
 

 
Built Especially for Royalty, Heads of State, and Celebrities of the Day
Many automobile enthusiasts ultimate dream is to design and build their own custom prototype sports car with a unique coach built designer body. Such were the days in the 1950’s and 1960’s when affluent individuals could custom order a prototype one-off sports cars from the world’s most renouned automobile companies.
 

 
Car companies within Italy and from around the world would ship their chassis and drive train to Italian designers and coach builders to handcraft these unique automobiles.
 

 
Vignale 375 America
Custom built cars of the 1950’s were each unique. Vignale built custom cars for its exclusive clients. Such a car was the 375 America.
 

Part of the 375 America's appeal was its 4.5-liter V-12 with an output of 300 horsepower at 6300 rpm. Providing a quoted top speed of 144-155 mph, an astronomical figure at a time when most cars struggled to reach 100.

 
Among this car's various owners was actor and car enthusiast Steve McQueen.
 

 
In many cases these chassis carried engines that were slightly detuned versions of the engines designed and used in the company’s race cars. On receiving the chassis, artisans would work day and night to create a unique elegant hand-formed alloy body and custom designer interior. These were cars that were recognized for their style and artistic beauty, and would stop pedestrians in their tracks as they drove by or were exhibited in expositions around the world. Many of these cars were designed and built especially for Royalty, Heads of State, and celebrities of the day.

400 Superamerica
Celebrities and Royalty in the 1950’s and 1960’s reveled in the chance to have their own prototype car designed exclusively for them.
 

 
This 410SA Superamerica was Ferrari's top Grand Tourer of the Fifties. Powered by a 4,963cc Lampredi V12 engine, these models offered the most advanced blend of performance and refinement available.
 

 
Scuderia Vignale Continues the Tradition of Creating Unique Prototypes
Those days have returned. Today, Scuderia Vignale continues the Vignale family tradition of transforming production sports cars into custom-built prototypes and precious works of art. Each car is unique and is designed to exude a style and elegance of its own. These are cars that recognize and represent their owner's taste, flair, drive, and ambition. Tradition is represented by the handcrafted bodywork and elegant interior design and leatherwork, while research, innovative thinking, new technologies and materials, all lead to new ideas and stunning state-of-the-art creations.
 

 
These modern coachbuilt cars are about panache, extroversion, and fun.
 

 
A car model, both classic and modern, becomes precious with elegant hand-crafted customization. Scuderia Vignale artisans and design engineers are innovators of style, creators of comfort, and inventors of new ways to transform a production sports car into a classic object of style, fine design, and a valued possession.

Create a Classic Masterpiece on a Modern Hi-Performance Platform
Many clients have expressed the desire to recreate their favorite historic masterpiece on a modern chassis and drive train. This combination delivers the elegant looks of the past with the comfort and performance of today’s most respected and admired sports cars.
 

 
Scuderia Vignale options are endless, from open styled barchetta’s and spyders, to closed berlinetta coupes, and four door high-performance grand tourisimo’s.
 

 
These cars offer all of today’s modern conveniences which can be incorporated into a state-of-the-art cabin design or hidden behind the classic looks of the past.
 

The Ultimate Combination: Classic Looks and Modern Performance

 
Examples of classic historic sports racing cars: (Above, left to right)
Ferrari 400 Superamerica S1 Spyder • Aston-Martin DB4 GT Zagato
Ferrari 250 GT Tour de France
 

 
A State-of-the-Art Prototype Represents the Owner's Personalized Style
First, clients select either a new or past make and model car of their choice, including Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Mercedes, BMW, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar and others. Once a car and model has been selected for the prototype platform, together we review the world’s supercar, prototype and concept designs. Next we work closely with our clients to determine the perfect design concept.
 

 
Together, our designers and the client work to produce a unique design that emulates the look and feel that the client has in their mind's eye. Scuderia Vignale engineers then work to create and bring to life their client’s ultimate vision of a sports car.
 

 
Examples of modern prototypes from around the world: (Above, left to right)
Ferrari P540 Prototype • Audi Avus Concept • Mitsuoka Orochi Concept
 

 
Experience and Exceptional Results From Scuderia Vignale and Partners
Each car is created to represent the personalized style of its new owner, with a unique hand-crafted body, engineering upgrades, designer interior, and custom exterior features and treatments.
 

 
Scuderia Vignale and its partners believe both comfort and traditional elegance must go increasingly hand in hand with safety and durability. Innovative design, new materials and technologies, together with our classic hand-crafted production techniques are used to achieve and ensure the best prototype for each of our exclusive clients.
 

 
Scuderia Vignale combines the experience of its partners Alfredo Zanellato Vignale and the Vignale family’s coach building tradition, along with the engineering experience of Fine Sports Cars and the Grifo Group. Each partner brings to Scuderia Vignale over 50 years of experience in design, engineering, and constructing sports racing cars.

Creating a New Era of Custom Built Prototype Automobiles
Alfredo Zanellato Vignale, renowned engineer, designer, and nephew of Alfredo Vignale, has always wanted to follow in the footsteps of his family’s coach building business. The opportunity presented itself in a casual meeting between Fine Sports Cars, the Grifo Group, and Vignale, where the discussion centered on Vignale’s most famous creations. Vignale special order and prototype cars were hand-crafted for Royalty and Heads of State, as well as celebrities and sports racing car enthusiasts around the world. Alfredo recounted admiring each of the Vignale special cars with his uncle at Carrozzeria Vignale. His dream has always been to carry on his family’s rich tradition of creating unique one-off custom designer sports racing cars. And so the plan was set, the three partners would work together to make Alfredo’s dream a reality.
 

 
Scuderia Vignale was established to continue the Vignale tradition of creating unique state-of-the-art designer sports cars. Scuderia Vignale partners (left to right): Grifo Group, Marina Caselli; Fine Sports Cars, Dr. Michael Prior; and Alfredo Zanellato Vignale.
 

 
Today, Scuderia Vignale partners’ vision is a reality, working to create the next era of custom built prototype sports cars for those celebrities and enthusiasts who wish to own the ultimate designer sports car and fulfill their dreams and ambition.

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