If you have always longed to own a hypercar company, Automobili Mazzanti would like to offer you an express route towards fulfilling your dreams. You see, the Pisa, Italy-based company is seeking investors and has created a Crowd Fund Me page to attract folks who may want to part with roughly $330,000 for a 7% stake in its ownership. The funds raised will sustain the company’s activities through 2025 with 40 percent going towards development of further cars, and the rest for R&D and marketing purposes, including a planned foray into the American market.
Punching Above Its Weight
Lest you not be familiar with this ambitious little automaker from Northern Italy, it is the brainchild of Luca Mazzanti, whose eponymous company started producing a low-volume, mid-engined, rear-drive supercar in 2013. The Evantra, sounding very much like a Lotus model made its debut at the Top Marques Show in Monaco that year with a hand-wrought aluminum or carbon-fiber body over a cage of chrome-molybdenum tubes. Powered by a 7.0-liter aluminum Chevrolet LS7 V8 engine producing 701 hp, the RWD coupe was coupled with a 6-speed automatic transmission.
(1,000) Wild Horses
In 2016, Signor Mazzanti unveiled the Evantra Millecavalli, or literally “1,000 Horses”, to lay down a gauntlet for Ferrari, Lamborghini and Pagani as the most powerful Italian carmaker (since then eclipsed by the electric Pinifarina Battista). Courtesy of twin turbocharging, the aforementioned LS7’s output was raised to a nice, round 1,000 horsepower (and even up to 1,200-hp in some subsequent models).
The Millecavalli is said to arrive at 60 mph in a scant 2.7 seconds and is supposedly capable of reaching a terminal velocity of 250 mph. Aerodynamic modifications, as well as massive carbon-ceramic Brembo brakes and Pirelli Trofeo R tires also helped to further distinguish this unicorn of an Italian hypercar.
Little Company, Big Dreams
The company has so far produced 15 Evantras and would like to increase production to 5 units per year, and is keen on developing new models in the near future. They would also very much like to share their hypercar spoils with you, provided that you are financially capable. We are not sure how lucrative such an investment would be, but if you are a gambler or an extremely adventurous type, there are worse ways to blow a whole lot of cash.
Sources: Motor Authority, Motor1, Wikipedia
