After 30 years of building race cars, Italy-based JAS Motorsport is turning its attention to street-legal cars. The first JAS Motorsport road car is on its way, and the brand enlisted the help of Pininfarina to design it.
JAS Motorsport isn’t a household name, but it stands out as a force to reckon with on the track. Founded in 1995, it supported the Alfa Romeo team during the 1996 International Touring Car Championship (ITC). It formed a partnership with Honda in 1998 and the two brands have raced together since. JAS notably helped Honda develop the Civic that raced in the World Touring Car Championship from 2012 to 2017. It also built and sold the NSX GT3 Evo and provides support to the privateers that race it around the world.
We’ll need to be patient to find out how JAS will channel this experience into a road car. All we know so far is that the company is planning to “re-imagine one of the most iconic sports cars of the past,” and that Pininfarina will handle the styling. The preview image (shown above) leaves a lot to the imagination, but it reveals a potentially telling detail. Check out the dash-to-axle ratio. Does it look like it belongs to a car with a front-mounted engine and rear-wheel-drive? I doubt it; it’s too short. This is pure speculation, but my money is on either a front-mounted engine and front- (or all-) wheel-drive or a mid-mounted engine.
Regardless, the car is being designed with a focus on performance and engagement, which shouldn’t come as a surprise. It will ride on a platform “embracing the very latest automotive technology,” so it won’t land as an old-school resto-mod, yet it will remain true to its origins, meaning JAS won’t hide the car’s roots.
More information about the first JAS Motorsport road car will emerge in the coming months, and the model will be revealed during the first half of 2026. Production will be “extremely limited,” so we suspect pricing to be correspondingly high. JAS will manufacture the model on the outskirts of Milan, Italy.
This is the equivalent of the teaser for the movie teaser trailer. Nice to know something is coming but they might as well have said it will have 4 tires and a steering wheel.
I wonder if this JAS supercar is going to have a Honda motor that would be pretty cool to see
