Picchio

About Picchio

Picchio is an italian factory specialized in the automotive sector. It, designs, manufactures, devolops and homologates special cars (heat-engine, electric, hybrid), one-off or in very limited series (made to order too). Picchio was founded in 1989, when a few young motor-racing enthusiasts from Ascoli Piceno tought to create a company to manufacture sports cars designed from eng. Giotto Bizzarrini. The relationship with this absolute genius in automotive history is immediately on a wave of enthusiasm. Eng Bizzarrini designed a car and then made with his own hands the new prototype that became the first “traveling laboratory”. It was driven by Giotto Bizzarrini himself, this time acting as pilot and test driver. Style, design, engineering, testing and production, the whole manufacturing process is made in our Factory in Ancarano (Abruzzo, Italy). Even if it isn’t well known in luxury car sector, Picchio is a brand that has greater reputation in racing competitions. Among the first races we can mention ISRS championship at Misano and at Nürburgring, in 1999 SRWC championship at Donington (UK), and from 2000, Campionato Italiano Prototipi (CIP), on the most famous italian circuit, including 6 hours of Vallelunga and Campionato Italiano Velocità Montagna (CIVM), the hill climbs national trophy which takes place throughout Italy from Trentino to Sicily. As concern international races in 2002 Picchio partecipated in competitions in USA, in Grand-American series, including the famous and “historical” 24 Hours of Daytona race. In 2014 Picchio partecipated in the famous race the clouds, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. The aim of Picchio is to manufacture not only racing cars but also road cars transferring in their designing the know-how acquired thanks to motor sport experience.

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