Pininfarina to Design Two New Challenger

Pininfarina, founded in 1930, is known for its cutting-edge designs, primarily of sports cars. They have also designed yachts and private aircraft. The company is headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices throughout the world.

"This is the first engagement in the boat sector developed by our American branch, Pininfarina Extra USA, located in Fort Lauderdale, an office with an extraordinary growing strength in sectors such as boat, aviation, residential and hospitality," said Paolo Pininfarina, President and CEO of Pininfarina Extra, the division of the Pininfarina Group specializing in product and interior design, in a statement. “Offshore performance boats present a perfect channel through which we can apply our talent in creating exciting, breathtaking designs.”

Laurie Phillips, Challenger’s president and CEO, said production of the boats would be limited to 30 in 2008. “We plan to further develop our relationship with Pininfarina over the next few years to deliver other distinctly engineered, high performance boats for the discriminate market,” she said in the statement.