Challenger Powerboats Teams With World Renown Designer, Pininfarina, to Offer Luxury High Performance Boats
WASHINGTON, Mo., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Challenger Powerboats, Inc. ('Challenger') (OTC Bulletin Board: CPWB) today announced that it has engaged the services of Italian design group Pininfarina to create two boats in its high performance series. The Company unveiled illustrations of the newly designed boats during its annual dealer meeting last week and expects to have boats ready for delivery in early 2008. The redesigned boats will be 36 foot models.
Pininfarina, founded in 1930, is known for its cutting-edge, unique designs, primarily of sports cars, most notably Ferrari and Maserati. They are also recognized for their designs of yachts and private aircraft in the transportation industry, as well as designs in the electronics, consumer, home and office, sport, and architecture and interior industries. Headquartered in Turin, Italy, the Pininfarina Group employs more than 3,000 employees throughout the world and has operations in Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, United States, Morocco and China.
Challenger's high performance boats are made with the patented Duo Delta-Conic (DDC) hull, a revolutionary design by world-renowned marine designer Harry Schoell that combines two hulls in one to enhance the boat's stability and deliver faster speeds, better control and a softer ride. Challenger's high performance DDC series of boats are used by professional offshore racers in competition.
'We are delighted to operate in a state-of-the-art market,' said Paolo Pininfarina, President and CEO of Pininfarina Extra, the division of the Pininfarina Group specializing in product and interior design. 'This is the first engagement in the boat sector developed by our American branch, Pininfarina Extra USA, located in Fort Lauderdale (Florida), an office with an extraordinary growing strength in sectors such as boat, aviation, residential and hospitality. Offshore performance boats present a perfect channel through which we can apply our talent in creating exciting, breath-taking designs. Challenger's high quality building standards and state of the art design together with our design creativity will produce a distinctive recreational cruiser for the luxury market.'
Commenting on the soon to be unveiled Pininfarina designed boats, Laurie Phillips, Challenger's president and CEO, stated, 'We are very excited about the concept Pininfarina's design engineers developed for our boats. The boat features are engineered for elegant performance. The combination of Challenger's revolutionary hull design with Pininfarina's style and sophistication makes for an unparalleled experience for its prospective owners.' Ms. Phillips added, 'We intend to limit production of the two boats in 2008 to approximately 30. We plan to further develop our relationship with Pininfarina over the next few years to deliver other distinctly engineered, high performance boats for the discriminate market.'
