Stola show car for the Geneva Motor Show

Feb 27, 2003 - Stola, the long established Italian coachbuilder, highly respected by top carmakers world-wide for its superlative execution of their concept cars (such as the Maybach first unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show) will present a show-car of its own at the Geneva Motor Show. It is the first time that the Turinese company will attend the motor show on the shore of Lac Leman in Switzerland.

The company has always made a point of offering their clients, primarily the car industry at large, all coachbuilding services but styling, and according to a recently established tradition have asked their friend and consultant Mr. Aldo Brovarone (who retired many years ago from Pininfarina), to style a very attractive and emotional dream car that would not annoy either makers nor designers and yet could display the company skill.

To show the versatility of their body work, Stola has taken its Stola S82 roadster and converted it in a racy coupé called GTS.

The Stola GTS is a two-seater coupe dressed and tuned as a powerful Gran Turismo Sportiva from the Boxster with the structure reinforced as required by a turbocharged 3.6 litre flat-six engine credited with some 480hp, with stiffer suspensions and special Brembo brakes.

According to our sources the new Stola GTS will be presented as a special “fuoriserie” of which a maximum of three units may be built on request of privileged enthusiasts. Prices are and will be kept confidential.

As its “GTS” name and colour scheme express, the latest show-car from Stola is a retro-racer exercise that celebrates the GT cars of the late sixties and seventies, when people could drive high performance cars on public roads through work days and race on Sundays.

Speaking of the reasons of this exercise Alfredo Stola, chairman of Stola Spa said: “Our passion for cars and the desire to show it, are the reasons that led us to the production of this new prototype, turning to the outside consultant only for the styling. With this project we have tried to revive the spirit and atmosphere of the endurance races of seventies, both through design and the typical blue and orange colour scheme very popular in those years.”

	Stola show car for the Geneva Motor Show by Giancarlo Perini
	Click for larger images	Feb 27, 2003 - Stola, the long established Italian coachbuilder, highly respected by top carmakers world-wide for its superlative execution of their concept cars (such as the Maybach first unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show) will present a show-car of its own at the Geneva Motor Show. It is the first time that the Turinese company will attend the motor show on the shore of Lac Leman in Switzerland. The company has always made a point of offering their clients, primarily the car industry at large, all coachbuilding services but styling, and according to a recently established tradition have asked their friend and consultant Mr. Aldo Brovarone (who retired many years ago from Pininfarina), to style a very attractive and emotional dream car that would not annoy either makers nor designers and yet could display the company skill. To show the versatility of their body work, Stola has taken its Stola S82 roadster and converted it in a racy coupé called GTS. The Stola GTS is a two-seater coupe dressed and tuned as a powerful Gran Turismo Sportiva from the Boxster with the structure reinforced as required by a turbocharged 3.6 litre flat-six engine credited with some 480hp, with stiffer suspensions and special Brembo brakes. According to our sources the new Stola GTS will be presented as a special “fuoriserie” of which a maximum of three units may be built on request of privileged enthusiasts. Prices are and will be kept confidential. As its “GTS” name and colour scheme express, the latest show-car from Stola is a retro-racer exercise that celebrates the GT cars of the late sixties and seventies, when people could drive high performance cars on public roads through work days and race on Sundays. Speaking of the reasons of this exercise Alfredo Stola, chairman of Stola Spa said: “Our passion for cars and the desire to show it, are the reasons that led us to the production of this new prototype, turning to the outside consultant only for the styling. With this project we have tried to revive the spirit and atmosphere of the endurance races of seventies, both through design and the typical blue and orange colour scheme very popular in those years.”