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Byline: Matt Davis
Ventury? Venturi? No one's ready to call the whole thing off.
The dawn of Venturi happened at the 1984 Paris motor show with the presentation of the fiberglass-bodied Godfroy Ventury coupe. Eighteen years later and after being owned by several French guys, a Scotsman and a Thai group, not to mention declaring bankruptcy twice, Venturi is owned by a Monaco-based investment group run by real estate kingpin and gentleman racer Gildo Pallanca Pastor. The smartest thing Pastor did after buying the company in 2000 was scrap everything Venturi was doing-the 400 GT and Atlantique 300 went fast, but had styling and interiors right out of the early '80s-and embark on a whole new adventure.
Accordingly, Pastor wants to retain the original company's goal of creating a wholly French sports car but one that establishes a new category: grand tourisme light. Between the welded aluminum chassis, composite body and aluminum and neoprene interior, Fetish hits the scales at a poky 1874 pounds and offers 50/50 weight distribution. This creates a rear-wheel-drive experience, according to its testers, that defines controlled tossability. The top speed thus possible from the ...