My Friend Gave Me His PININFARINA BATTISTA for THIS Hypercar Convoy!

I get the feeling that today is going to be epic. We are gate crashing a hypercar convoy and I'm about to be driving for the first time in my friend's Pininfarina Fatista. Look what's coming! I've just spotted the Strad convoy rolling in, James rocking the Koenigsegg Agera HH. Not only that, we've also got a Carrera GT, Chiron Perspore over there, Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution, Koenigsegg Agera RS, Huayra Roadster just here. I think today is going to be a whole lot of fun. We are going to be, in this, joining all the hypercars. That sounds like a plan to me. Let's have a whistle stop run here. Aventador SVJ Roadster, SVJ Roadster, Viper ACR, 675 LT Coupe, Carrera GT, Chiron Perspore, Ferrari Roma, Lamborghini Murcielago, Lambo Jesus coming through. We've got the F8 Tributo, the Venom F5, we've got James at the Koenigsegg, we've got Carrera Artura, Bentayga, FSOX, Koenigsegg Agera RS, James' Aventador Roadster, we've got the STO, we've got the Pagani Huayra Roadster, and of course, I will be piloting this today! I think everyone's minds are blown right now. There must be around 10 hypercars here for the drive today. We're going to be on the road out to some stunning scenery, amazing roads, with all of this lot. It's bright, it's colourful, I guess another 911 Turbo S convertible's just rolled in. I don't know where all of this is going. I think I might even swap into something else a little bit later on, so stay tuned to see how it unfolds. But first up, I probably should go and get comfortable in the Batista and get ready for what's coming up ahead of us. We will go and catch up with James and Alex and everyone in just a second, but we need a very quick introduction to this, because I think in about two minutes we're hitting the road, and I'm driving my friends Pininfarina Batista. Now, this was launched in 2019 from Automobili Pininfarina. There are only 150 of them in total, and like I said, it is near on 2,000 horsepower. It's technically 1,927 horsepower. There are four electric motors, one on each corner, a 120 kilowatt-hour battery, so hopefully we're not going to have any battery problems today. This particular car from Fasta is in the full blue carbon fibre. We've actually done a shoot with it before, also with my Zenvo, when we were at Velocity Invitational. It is a quite frankly ridiculous machine. If I pop open the door, I need to grab the key and actually unlock it. I'd never even seen the key before today. This is the key to the Batista, with the blue accents and details. I have ridden on board a car before, out during Monterey Car Week, but let me show you inside here, because it's built around the carbon fibre monocoque. You've got a T-shaped battery, basically keeping the centre of gravity and the weight down, but it's about extreme performance. Well under two seconds to 62 miles an hour. Fast. Very fast. Let's have a ridiculously quick runaround of some of the cars here, and then we're hopping in and we're going. We're going. We're doing this. This is the Schmied 150 Channel, so we need to be a little bit nerdy about some of the cars that are here. The Aventador SVJ Roadster, one of 800 in bright yellow, another one of the 800. We have two of 800 here in the blue, which looks magnificent. The Viper ACR, which is a weapon with its V10. Massive wing at the back. Always quite love those things. The 675 LT Coupe, one of 500. This is a roof scoop car as well, from factory. The original full carbon roof with the intake, and the carbon louvres from MSO as well. Behind, Porsche Carrera GT, another V10, one of my favourites in the world. GT Silver, looking stunning. The Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport from HyperNFT. Today's drive out here is actually with HyperNFT, Team Carnage and the crew. This is one of 60. It is a mega machine, my pick of the Bugatti Chirons. I'm going to squeeze on through over here. We've got a lovely Ferrari Roma. My Roma Spider is due in not too long. We've got an F8 Tributo just here as well, in the satin black, wearing HREs. I think we've got a kit going on, perhaps with this as well. Lambo Jesus with the LP640, and we've got to talk about that. Gated manual shifter in the Murcielago. We've got James's Koenigsegg Agera HH, now wrapped in the bright pink, and there is a mega story behind this car. We'll probably have a full catch-up on it at some point very soon. If I squeeze through here, we've got the Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution. The Venom F5 originally launched as the Coupe, then came the Roadster, then came the Revolution, and more recently as well, the Revolution Roadster. We've got James's basically Pirelli edition inspired, well no, it was a Pirelli edition, but he had to rebuild wide-body Aventador in the Rosso Arcantis looking mega. McLaren Artura. Don't see many Arturas actually out and about on the roads come through. Also from HyperNFT, we've got the MSO-X, one of the original, well 10 MSO-Xs that they made. Completely bespoke project based on the 570S. We've got a Koenigsegg Agera RS here. This is Valhau, also from HyperNFT that I've driven before. We've got the Huracan STO in satin, Viola Passofei, and then Supercar Ron's Pagani Huayra Roadster, which also looks spectacular with the roof scoop, the glass Targa roof panel, the shark fin down towards the wing at the back of this thing. Absolutely amazing. The Roadster with Tempesta package worn on that car. I don't know if things like the Urus and the Corvette are also joining. There's also a Huracan Performante Spider just down there, but this is a pretty serious lineup to head out with in just a moment. Where are you running to, Mr. Organiser? Sorry, sorry. I guess this is how we do Scottsdale, right? HyperNFT style. This is how you do it. That's right. Alex, how you doing? Good to see you. Cody. Morning. So you've got your wings up on your Lambo at the moment. Oh, it's wings up gang. It's how it should be. We're in for fun, for chaos. I don't know. Chaos is one way to put it. You've got some kind of plan for us. It should be a good time. It sounds fun to me. No, no plan. It's a little late today. You know, we had a garage door issue. No, it's all fine. It's all fine. I mean, we've got the cars, we've got the people. This is what we like. Let's go. Getting those shots of the carnage, quite literally. This isn't bad, is it? This isn't bad at all. Tell you what, so I was just telling them that I took 90 days off of social media because we were working on other projects. This is the first event that we're doing back. In the deep end, mic drop. This is a mic drop and it's not bad to look in here as well. This is cool. Logan, what did you just say? You want to start your beer? Oh wait, you can't. Yeah, that's not going to get people buzzed. No warm. Actually, it does kind of make a noise. It does. It makes quite a cool noise. I spent all day talking spark plugs with everyone. Just we can't talk spark plugs. Not right now. Not right now. Hey guys, my Mustang is in that garage. Like I could swap, but it was pretty cool yesterday. I was impressed with it. It sounds nice, but it's not really suited for a hypercar convoy. It's not really. We're going to take off here shortly, so let's get the show on the road. Let's get ready. Devin, how come I'm driving your car today? We're doing the polar opposite switch. We're going as least gas mileage efficient as possible. As loud and rowdy as possible. You've swapped. You're letting me take the Batista because you were driving in the Venom F5. I'm actually a little bit jealous. I've never driven one of those either. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Sounds like we might have a visit in store. We might have to set something up soon. Might need a fancy little hat going on. Yeah, join the crew. That would be great. You would look really good in a cowboy hat. Fun story for you guys. Actually bought one on our last trip out here. No way. Yep. Wore it in a few videos. That's happening. It's not on your head now, so it doesn't count. No, no, no. I missed that one. I missed that one. Right. I guess we're going very shortly. Everybody's kind of ready, so enjoy the drive. Fire up that engine. I will. I'll make a lot of noise. You enjoy driving the Venom. Thank you for letting me drive the Pininfarina. See you on the road. Let's go. We've got the sounds of engines. That F8 is not This looks cool. Thank you. We're going to have to talk about it when we can actually talk. Absolutely. It's too loud here. Enjoy the drive. Maybe get everything fired up. I think Alex is going to be leading us all in orange juice as a local. Mr. Supercar Ron. What's up? How's it going? Enjoy the drive. Right. I think now that's running so many engines and I'm going to go drive something silent. Let's come around. Anybody who doesn't know what's going on right now is very confused, but Batista at the ready. So, yeah, let's step in. I'll show you a little bit about how this works. Let me get comfortable in here. So I had a brief introductory lesson. You turn it on. Window switches are here because we want to hear everything. Of course, my seat controls are on the screen here so I can shuffle that back. So it's hard to see. Go learn all of this. We're in karma. In fact, let me show you something here. I don't know if you can quite see it on the screen. If I go to drive mode, it shows you the amount of power. So karma on this toggle is 500 kilowatts. Turn it up into pura 745 kilowatts. Then you've got energica 1100 kilowatts and then you've got Furiosa, which is max power, 1400 kilowatts, which is about 1927 horsepower. And you've also got a customized mode. I guess we're going to start in karma because this is my very first time ever driving in this thing. We've got the Chiron Carrera GT just beside us. I don't want to take the lead, but yeah, Batista Hypercar Convoy gate crash. Turned up in my Mustang Dark Horse and now I find myself driving. Am I driving the most powerful car here? Yeah, literally, the most powerful car at a Hypercar Convoy. I think it's time. Mercy on the rollout. That thing is so bright. That thing is so bright. Okay, what am I doing? Are we going into drive? Yep. Okay, I've got my parking sensors beeping away at me. I suppose. I don't know anything really about driving this. It's quite a strange sensation. We'll let some of the cars head through. MSOX. What's going on? Can we get out? Can we get out? The fence door at the front. Yes, we have permission to go next. So this is mad. This time of year, the sunshine, this is absolutely stunning. That Lambo is deafening. Okay, so, right, the quietest but fastest car. And we might have to ask Devin a little bit more about buying an electric hypercar slightly later on. Oh, that's a cool view in the rearview mirror. Look at that. Hypers Chiron right behind. It was even cooler when you could see the car next to it. Man, this is going to be crazy in a minute. This is going to be absolutely, absolutely unreal. Right. It's quite funny to be behind an event door. Yeah, we are nearly silent. We've obviously got brake regeneration on. This is weird. In Karma, it's not making all of the electrical noises and things that you can turn on in the car. And then it really starts making that. I mean, here in Arizona, there are so many stones on the road. You can hear that right now. Tell you what, this actually feels really good. The seating position here is immense. The view is great. Obviously, it's a slightly different format and shape once you're in a car that isn't dealing with the placement of an engine. The battery is literally through here behind us, a plaque right behind one of 150. Right. Gear up, work out what we're doing. Let's turn it up into Pura. I think we'll go with Pura. That's 1,400 newton meters of torque. It's just silly. Absolutely silly. This is so fun. The event door is there. I'm going to leave the windows up, actually, because I know how this goes. I don't know what exhaust that is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a Guintani or something. Absolute madness. Absolute madness. The view I have right now. I mean, let's let some cars go past. Chiron. Then behind that is the LT. He's kind of stopped just behind my shoulder. Then one Koenigsegg, the Venom F5 I can see behind. This is silly. I don't know what exhaust that's got. I just noticed different pipes definitely on that 675. Sorry, it's hard to see with where the mirror is. Oh boy. Koenigsegg. Oh, that was a bang as we go around the corner. Inevitably, everyone gets back on the power and so do we. Oh, my days. Bangs from Valhalla, cool. All righty, away we go. The egg sounds so brutal. Those bangs. I'm actually going to take it easy, wave some people past. Oh, my gosh. We've got the Venom F5 behind now. It's really cool being able to see in the camera so clearly. I tell you what, I have to say, because I went in a prototype Batista before, this is really well made. This is very high quality. In an electric car, you hear every rattle and noise. This feels really sharp. This is nice. This is good. It's impressive. The two most powerful cars here then. I just skip away. Enjoy the cruise. Yes. Oh, goodness. Check this out then. We had kind of got slightly ahead, but everybody is now driving past. We have regrouped. I actually want to let a bunch of the cars go through here. Madness. We've got the MSOX coming past. That's where he is. I was wondering which car Devin's driving. He's gone in the X for now. I think he's going in the Venom F5 later. A roundabout in America or a traffic circle, as I believe they're called. Perfect for confusing everybody. Oh, that's a cool view. You guys didn't see, but over my shoulder, everybody arriving. We've got the Viper ACR right behind. I actually kind of want to go a touch lower to let everybody somehow go past us. I need to work that out. I'm also going to turn it up into inertia car, but another little roundabout here. Okay, good. It's a multi-lane road. That's going to work. We can have people going past us. Maybe for the time being, I just need to bomb past this guy. Oh, my days. That is stupid. That is absolutely stupid. On the flyby right now. Viper, supercar Ron with the Huayra, SVJ, get ready to get deafened. Venom F5, that's cool. We're pulling up to a stop sign and the guys in front are going to do this the noisy way. I'm going to turn this into Furiosa. They're waving us. I'm going to come to a stop though, because let's launch this. Oh, my gosh. I had to grab hold of my sunglasses. This is fast. It also makes interesting noises. I'm not sure if you heard, it makes this deep, much more visceral sound of Furiosa. That was one of the things when I rode in the car before, I remember them introducing and talking about. The thing I don't enjoy is that I have never driven anything where you hear so many stones on the road. And that's partly because Arizona just has roads completely covered in stones everywhere. And partly because we're in a carbon tub electric car. So no engine sounds drowning out and carbon tub, which everything just pings and echoes off and bounces around. I kind of like this in Furiosa, although I don't like following something ruining the fun. The scenery is starting to open up and look spectacular around us though. Obviously cacti in the random yards and the mountains all around. Do we have another stop sign? Although a stop sign behind a truck isn't quite the same as a stop sign. When you're free to do as you want. Yeah. Okay. Let's get ready to hold on tight because this is happening again. I'm going to put my sunglasses on this time so they don't get flying off the top of my head. Is that person waiting? I think they are. Yeah, yeah, indeed. Right. Come to a stop and go. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. That is absolutely ridiculous. This is absolutely silly. The venom is off. So are we. Oh, I like that. When I go full throttle, the window closes. Also, we had a little pop of flame out of the back of the Hennessy. It is ridiculous that these are the two most powerful cars on this drive. And I just turned up in my Mustang with about 500 horsepower and jumped into something with four times the power. Four times. This has as much power per corner as my Mustang, which is a pretty high powered sports car, has in total. This is ridiculous. This is absolutely ridiculous. I'm quite enjoying driving this more than I thought I would. I have to confess more than I expected. The Aventador is so loud. This is starting to be a spectacular view. I mean, look at this place. Gives us an opportunity to talk more about the dynamic side. Oh, gosh, this sits flat. Handling is actually quite nicely weighted. Steering is good. It does a nice job. I mean, when you're talking electric cars, obviously, the way the power is distributed, the torque vectoring of it and the way that it can sit so flat because of the weight being right down here. And yeah, I know it's heavy, but they've done a nice job of hiding that. I mean, I can throw it pretty hard into corners and it's confident. I don't want to go and drive it on a track now, but up here, we could absolutely fly up in this. We just occasionally catch up with cyclists and slow things. This is surreal today. It's absolutely ridiculous that we're doing this. This is absolutely ridiculous. What on earth? We've just pulled over because I wanted to let some of the others catch up. Kind of cool classic going past. What a baller. Nice way to do it. Everyone else has gone ahead. In theory, Lambo Jesus and Strad are definitely behind us. Definitely were behind us. I hope. Otherwise, I'm just sitting here at the side of the road for no reason with an electrical whir in the background. Now we're talking. We've got the boys. I might try and squeeze out. Can I squeeze out? I'm going to go for it. The colors. I mean, look at this thing. That's V12, the car that Strad really uses to honor his late father, which is such a cool thing that he built it. I like that they stopped and chilled as well. Just driving in that traffic jam was pointless. Now we're following a different group of cars. It feels like we're on some proper supercar rally. Very cool. This is really funny that everyone's kind of doing the same thing because driving in traffic is boring. A few of the cars there pulled over as well. Oh, the G-forces. It's such a strange sensation because you don't hear it. I mean, you hear them, but this is significantly faster than any other car that you can see right now, which is crazy. I mean, just to give you some of the numbers, we haven't really spoken about the numbers of the Batista. Zero to 100 kilometers an hour, which is 62 miles per hour, is 1.89 seconds. Even less to only 60. 1.89. Zero to 300 kilometers an hour, which is 186 miles an hour, is only just over 10 seconds. 10 seconds. My first car took about 13 seconds to get to 60 miles an hour. What on earth? 10 seconds is ridiculous. Top speed is 222 miles an hour, which is a nice number. 350 something kilometers an hour, which is ample and often something that electric cars are hampered by, top speeds. The thing is, an Aventador is fast, but an Aventador zero to 300, I don't know the number, but it's got to be like 25 seconds or something like that, and this does it in 10. It's a different league of performance. There are certainly things about the car. I am going to critique it for a moment here. I'm going to tell you a couple of things that I'm not the biggest fan of. Number one, the windshield wiper arms. They're not pretty the way they stick up. I mean, it's pretty prominent in your view. I guess we're going to pull off here. Number two, over on my side here, the door handle is super flimsy. Not quite sure why that is, but not impressed by that. It's something clearly wrong with it. Oh, this is madness. Madness. Right. How do I stop this? Park. Off. That's easy. Very nice. Let's hop out for a second. We've just stopped here with a bit of a lineup, but I'm coming through. Firstly, that view is unbelievable. Secondly, that is one of the Hertz rental Shelby GT500s, which is fun. Sixth gen S550 Mustangs from the rental company in the black with the gold stripe. GT500h. Cool. First one of those I think I've ever seen out and about in the open. Look at this. Look at what we've got going on. Egg, Pininfarina, Venom, all of the Lambos around as well. What on earth is this? I guess it's go time. I think I'm on. Yes, I am. We can put this up into Furiosa and back into drive. I don't know who's leading or how we're doing this. It's all sorts of noise. This is ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. Are we going to end up behind the SVJ? I think it's going that way. We all know what that noise means. The sound from the Venom, that super gruff. Oh, that was nice. The Corvette just went past. Everybody's out here to enjoy the drive, enjoy the roads. Yowzers. All right, fastest Shelby. That's so cool to see that. I love it. Absolutely love it. Basically, GT500 non-track pack that you can rent as they've done in the past. Those historic ones are actually very collectible. Look at this. Look at these roads. This is stunning. What a place. Cruising and enjoying the view. I got to say, this is pretty good. This is pretty good right now. Imagine if this road was completely open and de-restricted and you could do whatever you wanted down here. Although, even at slow speeds, the sound of that is simply stupid. I'm also okay with the electric range. All the stones that we have in here, we have used approximately 27% in the driving we've done so far, which I think has been about 75 miles. There's been some spirited driving and some launches in there. Look at this place. Do not enter when flooded. Luckily, it's not flooded. It's very dry and desert-like right now. This thing is so fast. It doesn't translate on camera though. That is the thing with electric hypercars. I can accelerate foot flat, but because you don't hear the sound of it, you don't get the sensation that I get. As this thing opens up, no combustion engine car that can do that. Nothing. Nothing in the world exists. Old sunglasses on. Yeah. Yeah. Not bad. We're back in the same stop place. It's pretty crazy around here. I mean, look at this. Look at this. How's the drive going? Oh, it was excellent. We wanted to give you a taste of real noise since you were in that electric car. Next time you're alongside, give it some. We'll go on that soon. That was like real driving for the first time. Once you get past the town, it's so much better. Dude, that little last half was like steam. Before, when we got to the end, you can keep going, but a wash came over in 2019 and they haven't cleaned it. You used to go all the way to Lake Roosevelt. It's a handful. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoying it though? I just keep seeing all the images of Koenigsegg's crash throughout the years. I'm like, I do not want to be a part of that. You don't want to be a statistic. I do not want to be a statistic. Exactly. Especially after like, you know, day five with driving a car. Yeah. I don't want that. Look after it. Maybe in a couple of years. No, no. Wrong attitude. We want it looking lovely forever. I think it's time to take an extraordinary photo of the two eggs together. How cool is that? Very special. The view isn't bad. I think that's the symbol or alert. Yeah. We'll make just as much noise. Nobody could hear you were here. I'm pretty quiet. Yeah. Right. I guess it's time to hop on board. The Lambos are around. Time to hop in here and continue. Have I even unlocked the car? No. I've got to get better at this. I've got the key here. Don't have keyless. No. Wait, that one. Have I got it right? Yes. Thanks for the drive. Appreciate it. Let's go. Oh, look. Show me the cows with us. I think it's go time. Back into drive. Back into obviously Furiosa. Is it go time? I just hear Lambos revving. But if we manage to follow out the Chiron and the two eggs and the venom, that would be pretty cool. Off goes James. Off goes the venom. That is definitely what I call pretty cool. That is a hypercar. Epic little lineup. Wow. Wow. Chiron, Agera RS, Agera HH, Venom F5, Batista. Oh, my days. This is just stupid to be driving with these cars. It's really crazy. You just don't get the full sense in an electric car. It will never translate as you feel it. I just don't know how to put it into words. I think we've caught up with a group of cars and this is the way to just take a break for a second. We're back on the highway, window down because that's just unbelievably cool. This is a crazy takeover. We've got the eggs next. Eggs in a pair. Oh, my gosh. That's loud. Oh, window back up. That was really loud. Really loud. I can't do that though. That is the big thing, isn't it? As good as this car is to drive, as well as it handles twisty roads and obviously accelerating like a rocket ship, it doesn't do what those do. It doesn't do that. That's something you want in your hypercar. The flames that come out of Alex's mercy. Watch as he lifts off, just burning up. I don't think we've heard enough. That was the venom of this. Wow. I got to end up in an egg sandwich. Oh, yes. Koenigsegg in front, Koenigsegg behind. Could definitely be worse. We're arriving at the vault of Scottsdale. Lift system up in here. I guess we're going to fill up the car park in just a second. In we go. They're kindly hosting us. Nice 812 superfast lurking just there. Let me put the lift back down. Let us take one of these parking spaces. We'll figure it out. It's going to get very busy around here in a second. It's strange. When you change between different driving modes and the different brake regen settings, it takes a little bit of getting used to. But we're doing all right. We'll get this parked up right here. The venom took the easy approach and just parked in front. Don't want to curb a wheel on the Pininfarina. I think we're good. Done. All right. Off. Is that what you do? Then just open the door. Yeah, there we go. We've made it. What an experience. What a drive. Really cool. Really cool. And now with slightly dimmer light, you can actually see some of the screens and stuff around here. Back up camera with this kind of wavy graphic on the branches, which are swaying in the wind behind us quite amusingly. Just all the settings. Crazy. What a day. Right. Let's hop out and figure out what's next. Come in here at the vault of Scottsdale. Check this out. SF90 Assetto Fiorano. Pagani Huayra. Blue with dual tone blue, actually. McLaren Elva. Ferrari 488 Pista. That is a really nice spec on the Pista Spyder. But you've got to take a look at some of the artworks and memorabilia on the walls. The neon signs, the gas pumps right at home. Exploring here. Storage and service facility. Look at this. Absolutely stunning. GTR Pro. F8 Spyder. DBS 770 Ultimate. The Ferraris 550s, 575s. I can never quite tell. F40, GT. These signs are genuinely amazing. This is really cool. Really cool. The triple stack of lifts at the back for the storage. Oh, I spot a GT500 down over there. Wow. What a nice place to come and swing by here at the vault of Scottsdale with the whole crew after that drive. What a way to end the day. Like in the green GT2 RS just there as well. Oh, Turbo S exclusive series convertible in spot just there. Very cool. Back out here, though, of course, lights starting to go down. What a day that has been. The hypers driving the Pininfarina Batista. And the thing I guess I want to say about this from my drive today is that for an outing like this, where charge hasn't been particularly relevant, it started with enough charge and we haven't driven too far for it to run too low, and lack of noise hasn't been an issue because we've been surrounded by a lot of noise, to be completely honest. It's been mega to drive on those roads. So car for the occasion, for the experience, for the environment. This has done a very, very nice job. As the other Akira RS pulls in. It's been a great day for it. Organized by HyperNFT, Logan, Dean and the team. I mean, just as this thing comes past. The Venom F5. Yeah, yeah, really cool. So big thanks to Devin for letting me drive this. Honestly, I've enjoyed that a lot. Would I want to spend a seven figure price tag on an electric hyper car? And that's truthfully where as a petrol head with fuel literally running through my veins, where I would struggle. Now, I think everyone pretty much knows that the Pininfarina and the Rimac platform sharing potentially also with Mission X in the future. Of course, the Lotus Evia is a very similar proposition, and I've yet to drive Navira, Evia or obviously Mission X to see how they actually stack up. But this is a very nicely specced example. There is the Battista Anniversario as well. And for more background technical information on the car, you can check out my previous time with it. But yeah, as first drives go, that's been very special. So big thanks again, Devin. I've enjoyed that a lot. Big thanks to everyone who arranged today. It has been a really, really cool day out. We've ended here at the vault of Scottsdale. That's it for now, though. Thank you very much for watching and I'll see you again very soon. Cheers.