Heritage
Sixty-four years on the same street.
Vantera has never moved, never floated, and never built a car it could not finish by hand. The drivetrain changed in 2019. Almost nothing else did.
The body shop, 1967. The English wheel on the right is still in service.
Sixty-four years, abridged
Nine people and one English wheel
Carrozzeria Vantera opens on Via dell’Aerodromo, bodying other people’s chassis for other people’s badges.
The 220 Berlinetta
Forty-four cars, every panel beaten by hand. All forty-four are still accounted for.
Fourth at Le Mans
A works entry finishes fourth on debut. We never go back, and we have never fully explained why.
The last combustion car
A 4.2 litre V8 leaves the works on a Tuesday. Nobody thinks to photograph it.
Monolite is signed off
Four years, two abandoned architectures, and a floor pan that finally does two jobs at once.
Aurea GT, Series I
Forty-one cars a month. The same street, the same paint hall, a different kind of quiet.
“We are not trying to make the fastest car. We are trying to make one that is still worth keeping in forty years.”
Elia Vantera — Chief Engineer, 1962–1994
The works, today
Forty-one cars a month.
There is no night shift. When a car is not right it leaves the line and comes back to the same station and the same team, which is only possible at our volume — and is the whole argument for staying at it.
Come and see.
The works are open to owners and to people thinking about becoming one.