Bosch and Williams agree to participate in Isotta Fraschini brand revival

The right holders to the once-legendary car marque Isotta Fraschini have secured cooperation contracts with multiple widely known companies including Williams, Bosch and Brembo, Carscoops reports.

For example, Williams allowed the company to use the wind tunnel for testing its Le Mans hybrid, the first vehicle scheduled to be built by Isotta Fraschini in its new history. Later on, the company plans to produce a range of street-legal cars as well.

Those are the plans for the medium term, though, the automaker admits. Before they can begin to be implemented, a road-legal supercar is slated to arrive based on the same platform as the endurance racer it is currently designing. The premiere is scheduled for February 2023, and the 24 Hours of Spa in April will be the first endurance race where the Isotta Fraschini hybrid will participate. It will then enter the Le Mans race in June.

From the technical point of view, the car uses a 3.0-liter petrol V6 in tandem with a front-axle mounted electric motor. Supervising the project is Michelotto, the car expert that worked with Ferrari as it was getting prepared to the GT racing series.

Isotta Fraschini settled for the Le Mans race specifically because it was a highly ambitious and difficult goal. The company will be going up against racecars built by much better-known modern brands, like BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Peugeot and Toyota.

Founded in 1900, the Italian marque rose to fame in the first half of the 20th century. It originally boomed in popularity thanks to producing luxury vehicles, but the production stopped after the World War II. Attempts to revive the brand were made in the late 1990s, but it fell into obscurity again after revealing two prototypes.