- The Piech GT sports car will get a second chance at production
- The redesigned car won’t launch until 2028
- Former Aston Martin and Mercedes-Benz AMG CEO Tobias Moers now leads the operation
Swiss electric vehicle startup Piech has gone back to the drawing board for its GT sports car, which the company now aims to launch in 2028, or four years later than originally planned.
Car and driver learned that the original company, founded in 2017 by Rea Stark Rajcic and Toni Piech, a member of the Porsche-Piech clan and son of the engineering icon Fernando Piechhas collapsed and that Rajcic is no longer involved.
The setback gave Piech time to redesign and re-engineer the GT, with new bodywork penned by David Seesing, the designer of another long-delayed sports car, the TVR Griffith. His design for the GT shares some similarity with the TVR, especially in the rear three-quarter view, but crucially there doesn’t appear to be anything shared with Piech’s. previous design for the GT.
Piech is now headed by Tobias Moers, formerly of CEO of Aston Martin It is Mercedes-Benz AMG, and the GT’s powertrain has been upgraded to 1,000 hp, according to Car and Driver, up from 603 hp previously. Reported performance claims include a 0-62 mph time of 2.6 seconds and a top speed of 187 mph.
Piech GT
The powertrain is made up of a pair of electric motors, both on the rear axle and each independently controlling one rear wheel via a 2-speed transmission. The battery is now a 90 kWh unit, up from 75 kWh previously, and the estimated range is 312 miles on the WLTP cycle used overseas. A number closer to 250 miles would likely be based on the more stringent EPA cycle.
All of this sits in a lightweight carbon fiber tub with aluminum subframes front and back. Piech didn’t show the interior design, but the car is expected to have 2+2 seats, like the previous GT design.
According to Car and Driver, the GT is still in the clay model phase and Piech is looking for investment for further development. If everything goes according to plan, production will begin in 2028 at the Canadian company Multimatic’s factory, the same one that built the latest Ford GT and will also build the new Mustang GTD.
The target price is just over $200,000, and production will be limited to just a few thousand units, after which Piech may add a second model. This will be a model with four doorswhich the original Piech announced in 2019.