Italy
Automobili Mignatta, a small Italian coachbuilder based in Valfenera d’Asti, Piedmont, showed a fixed-roof Coupe version of its Rina sports car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2026. The company, founded in 2024 by José Mignatta, has not built a name for itself with volume or with electrification. It builds around 30 cars a year, by hand, around a naturally aspirated V8 sourced from Ford.
The car under the retro shape
The Rina’s silhouette borrows from 1960s Italian sports cars, but the engineering underneath is Mignatta’s own. The chassis is a proprietary carbon-fiber monocoque, reinforced with Kevlar, that the company says weighs about 71 kg (157 lb) on its own with a torsional stiffness of 101,000 Nm per degree. Double-wishbone suspension with adjustable coilovers sits at both ends, and Mignatta quotes a 50:50 weight distribution at a target curb weight around one tonne (2,205 lb).
Power comes from a 5.0-liter naturally aspirated V8, sourced from Ford and retuned by Italtecnica Engineering to roughly 500 hp - a figure the company presents as a target rather than a certified rating. It drives the rear wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox, a rear transaxle, and a limited-slip differential. There is no turbocharging and no electric assistance, which is unusual among cars at this price point, and no touchscreens inside: switchgear and instruments are analog, finished in forged carbon fiber, stainless steel, and billet-machined aluminum.
Two body styles, one platform
The open-top Barchetta was the first version to reach customers, debuting in 2025 with pricing from $290,000. The Coupe adds a fixed double-bubble roof and a Kamm tail with a ducktail spoiler; Mignatta showed it as sketches and a preview model at Goodwood, with the first real, driveable example due in 2027.
Mignatta’s own history explains how a two-year-old carmaker can promise a carbon monocoque built in-house. The company grew out of JM, a sister business that has spent 25 years working with carbon fiber and composite materials on restomods and components for other automakers - expertise it now applies to a car carrying its own name.
