Copper belongs in your kitchen, your walls, or your plumbing. At the Pastejé Automotive Invitational in Mexico on October 24, 2026, GFG Style and designer Fabrizio Giugiaro offered a different proposal. The Peralta D — a bespoke gran tourer, meaning a high-performance four-seat road car built for long-distance comfort — wears an entire lower body formed from hand-hammered copper sheets. Above the beltline, mirrored glass treated to echo the metal’s warm tone completes the illusion of a single, glowing monolith. Coachbuilding, the centuries-old practice of commissioning custom bodywork over an existing chassis, rarely arrives this literally — much like the secret 918 Coupe Porsche built for a single patron.
When the Body Is the Art
Every copper panel was shaped by hand, while a carbon-fiber structure on an aluminum chassis carries the engineering load beneath.
That distinction matters. The copper bodywork is supported by a carbon-fiber structure mounted on an aluminum chassis — the handwork is visual armor, not the car’s skeleton. The mechanical foundation is the Maserati GranTurismo. GFG Style has not published weight, power output, or price, so those figures remain unknown. What is documented is everything else:
- The “D” stands for daughters — the Peralta D is Carlos Peralta’s second GFG commission, following the Peralta S, reportedly dedicated to his daughters
- Unveiled October 24, 2026, at the Pastejé Automotive Invitational in Mexico
- Front cabin access comes via a forward-lifting dome rather than conventional side doors; rear passengers enter through gull-wing panels
- The passenger-side dashboard features a makeup station, cosmetic storage, and an illuminated mirror; the driver receives instruments
- A retractable refrigerator in the rear console holds one champagne bottle and four custom copper glasses
One Owner, No Waiting List
The Peralta D is a private commission — a design object that functions as a car rather than a car that merely aspires to be art.
The forward-lifting canopy recalls Giugiaro’s 1963 Chevrolet Corvair Testudo concept. The rear gull-wing panels echo gull-wing solutions associated with Giorgetto Giugiaro’s work on the De Tomaso Mangusta. History layered over craft, layered over Maserati engineering. GFG Style describes copper as “noble, malleable, and delicate” — a phrase that also captures the ultra-low-volume coachbuilding culture that makes commissions like this possible.
The asymmetric interior deserves a moment: while the driver faces instruments, the passenger receives a dedicated makeup station complete with illuminated mirror and cosmetic storage, a level of patron-specific craft that recalls how Rolls-Royce hand-painted interior details for a single family’s SUV. The car is dedicated to Peralta’s daughters, and that detail reads less as a curiosity than as a design decision made with specific people in mind.
This is the coachbuilding revival at its most concentrated — one patron, one car, no production run. Scarcity is not a side effect here. It is the entire product. Carlos Peralta commissioned the Peralta D, and it belongs to his collection. No waiting list exists, because no second example ever will.
The champagne fridge is already stocked. The copper glasses are custom-made. And no amount of money gets you one.
