Drawn with the old angles
Vettore takes its name from Monte Vettore in the Apennines, and from the Italian for vector: a magnitude with a direction. Both meanings are the company.
The founding story
In 1988 the great wedges stopped — regulation, fashion and finance closed the chapter mid-sentence. The folded-paper cars became posters, then auction lots, then a design language everyone quoted and no one continued.
Vettore was founded in 2021 to continue it. Not replicas: the originals exist and belong to their era. Not restomods; other houses honour individual cars beautifully. Vettore builds new cars: new platforms, new powertrains, new crash structure, drawn inside the silhouette discipline of 1982–1991. The eighties are our canon the way air-cooled flat-sixes are a canon to others: a body of rules worth obeying because the rules produce beauty.
We build fewer than five hundred cars a year in Modena. Every one is signed by the test driver who completed its road card.
The logomark
An acute wedge split by a single speedline: the pop-up headlight seam. Read it as a car in profile, or as a vector: a magnitude with a direction.
The wedge canon
La linea è tutto
One crease per flank, drawn without lifting the pen. If a surface needs a second line to explain itself, the surface is wrong.
Folded, not formed
Panels read as folded paper: flat planes, hard bevels, no blistered arches. Modern pedestrian-impact rules are solved under the skin, not on it.
Light is a feature
Pop-up lamps, full-width tail bars, phosphor-amber gauges. The car has a face when you ask for one, and a clean deck when you don’t.
How a Vettore is built
Every car is assembled by one team of four around a single bonded-aluminium tub. Paint is eleven layers over grey primer — colour, pearl, and triple clearcoat, sanded by hand between each. The interior is cut and sewn in-house; the gauges are drawn by our own firmware in period phosphor amber. Before delivery, every car runs 300 km of Apennine roads and is signed off by name.
Timeline
- 2021
Vettore Automobili founded in Modena by a chassis engineer and a former design-house modeller. First patent filings: the active pop-up lamp hinge.
- 2022
The bonded-aluminium Piattaforma Uno completes torsional testing. The design team freezes the single-crease flank rule: one line, never lifted.
- 2023
Prototype M0 runs its first full test laps. The flat-plane V8 makes 641 CV on the dyno the same week the name Monolito is chosen.
- 2024
Monolito unveiled to forty guests in a blacked-out hall, headlights rising as the only light. Eighty-eight build slots for 2027 sell in eleven days.
- 2025
The Linea gran turismo joins the range; the atelier moves to Via delle Arti with room for 500 cars a year, never more.
- 2026
The Fulmine targa completes homologation with a six-speed manual: the gearbox nobody else would certify, the one everybody asked for.