Angelelli Project 754: Italian ambition, Porsche heart and a few questions

Another major contribution should come from Generative Design. Angelelli will use its own Alien Mesh Design system to develop components, removing material where it is not needed and retaining only what is necessary for structural function. Suspension components, mounts, linkages, seat structures, steering components and even certain elements of the cabin could therefore take on shapes that would normally make you think a mechanical component had been designed by aliens with a particular passion for biomechanics.

All of this can also be produced using 3D-printed titanium or lightweight alloys. An extremely interesting technology, particularly when it allows geometries to be created that would be impossible — or simply economically nonsensical — using traditional manufacturing processes.

The aerodynamics also promise plenty. The bodywork will be developed as a complete system, with airflow management around the wheels, air extraction from the wheel arches, an aerodynamic floor, rear diffuser and fixed or active aerodynamic elements. The aim is to achieve the right balance between downforce, cooling and aerodynamic drag.

On paper, it is difficult to find anything that is missing.

A project like this is fascinating, but between “we will use” and “we have used” in the automotive industry lies an enormous distance. More or less the same distance that separated Napoleon from Europe on the day before Waterloo. Even greater is the gap between “it could be produced” and “here is the finished car, right in front of you”.

For now, in fact, Angelelli is presenting a project intended for extremely limited production: 25 examples of the 754 R and 25 of the 754 M, each built according to the owner’s requirements and personalised down to the technical, aesthetic and construction details.

If Angelelli manages to turn this enormous list of technologies into a real machine, as promised, then the Project 754 could become something genuinely very interesting. A truly independent Italian car, built in tiny numbers and capable of bringing together craftsmanship and technologies that we would normally expect to find in the R&D departments of major manufacturers.

For now, though, there is no racing helmet or overalls in sight. But in the meantime, we are already impatient to see it.

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