In Italy, a country that’s home to numerous small, specialized companies making exotic sports and racing cars, few can compete with SVA in their combination of obscurity with exotic engineering. Turin’s SVA flourished briefly at the end of the 1940s and produced at maximum two cars and a few more chassis. Yet the dazzling design of one of them, a single-seater, well-deserved its presentation by leading publications around the world. SVA can best be viewed as a spiritual offshoot of…

Savonuzzi and his Spectacular SVA
Turin-based producer SVA made waves in 1949-’50 with a miniature racing car that many consider the most beautiful ever conceived. Astonishingly, its designer Giovanni Savonuzzi was motivated by an order from America for a midget racer.