Sanrivatti is a New Hypercar Maker Designing Cars Around the Human Body

It seems like a new hopeful hoping to break into the exclusive world of selling hypercars pops up on a monthly basis right now, and right on cue, here’s another one: it’s called Sanrivatti, and it’s from that hotbed of supercar manufacturing… the Netherlands.

Okay, in fairness, the canal-and-bicycle-obsessed nation does have a bit of a niche industry for building completely unhinged cars. There’s Donkervoort, whose cars are like Caterhams that exclusively listen to gabber, and Spyker, the maker of beautifully crafted aviation-inspired supercars which has just announced yet another comeback after going bankrupt for a second time.

They’re now going to be joined by Sanrivatti, which is debuting with a currently unnamed, unrevealed hypercar which, based on the few design sketches we’ve got, looks like it’ll draw heavy visual inspiration from the world of Le Mans prototype racers.

Pretty much every one of these upstart hypercar brands claims its products will be ‘driver-focused’, but what Sanrivatti says will set it apart in this area is that it’s taking this quite literally: the starting point of the design is said to be the human body – the driver’s posture, their lines of sight, even their instincts.

Sanrivatti’s founder and CEO, Santiago Sanchez, says the car is being built around a world-first “driver-centred vehicle architecture,” and goes on to say: “Our ethos draws from cutting-edge automotive engineering, with inspiration from the world of superbikes, where the connection between rider and road is immediate and physical, but also from something more fundamental: the belief that the most powerful four-wheeled experiences are still deeply analogue.”

Ah yes, analogue, that other word that boutique hypercar manufacturers like to throw around with glee as normal cars get more and more ‘digital’. We’ll admit that its meaning in a car context is starting to get a bit blurry, but what it generally means is a combustion engine, no electrical assistance and a manual gearbox, so we won’t be at all surprised if that’s the recipe Sanrivatti’s first car goes for.

As easy as it would be to brush this off as yet another hypercar upstart that’ll make a lot of noise before sliding into development hell, Sanrivatti’s already put some proper work in to back up its claims: some form of proof-of-concept prototype is already up and running and putting in the work for this new take on a driver-focused hypercar, and we can apparently expect to find out more on the project in the coming months. We’ll be watching with interest.