Best Italian Cars in CSR2 Beyond Ferrari and Lamborghini

Ask a CSR2 player to name a fast Italian car and you'll hear Ferrari or Lamborghini, and we've ranked both already, in Ferrari vs Porsche and the best Lamborghini. But Italy has far more in the game than those two badges. Our CSR2 world records sheet has 59 records from nine other Italian makers, and one of them beats every Ferrari in the game.

The best Italian cars in Tier 5

Car	Record	Rank in Tier 5
De Tomaso P900 Concept	6.579	10
Pagani Huayra R Evo Roadster	6.765	79
Pagani Utopia ‘Carbon Edition’	6.779	87
Pininfarina Battista	6.790	97
Dallara Stradale	6.796	107
Pininfarina B95	6.845	136
De Tomaso Pantera GT5-S	6.950	231
Mazzanti Evantra Millecavalli	7.014	277
Maserati MC20 Cielo	7.235	394
Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evo 2	7.746	680

Best record per model at the time of writing, out of 890 timed Tier 5 cars. All purple-star records.

Faster than every Ferrari

The De Tomaso P900 Concept is the surprise of the table. Its 6.579 puts it 10th in the whole of Tier 5, and the fastest Ferrari on our sheet, the 849 Testarossa, is 17th. Among Italian cars, only one Lamborghini, the SC63 ‘IMSA Version’ at 5th, has a faster record.

It isn't a one-off either. Seven records from these smaller Italian makers sit in the Tier 5 top 100, against five Ferrari records. If you're building an Italian garage for the top tier, the badge on the bonnet matters less than you'd think.

Pagani: deep garage, wide spread

Pagani has the most records of the group, 28 in all, and they show how much the version matters. Four make the Tier 5 top 100, led by the Huayra R Evo Roadster and three Utopias (the Utopia Roadster and coupe are just a thousandth apart, as our convertible vs coupe study shows). But the typical Pagani record ranks around 359th, and the spread inside one model name is huge:

• Huayra: the Huayra R Evo Roadster is 79th and the Huayra R 125th. The Huayra BC sits around 531st, the Huayra Roadster around 740th, and the original Huayra, at four stars, is 870th of 890.
• Utopia: 87th to 89th as a purple star, 121st as a gold star.
• Zonda: the Zonda Cinque family shares a 7.147 record around 335th; the Revolución is 363rd.

The Imola is worth a note for tuners: its record uses a long, soft nitrous setting (63/12.0) that only 32 of the 890 Tier 5 records run. Our best tune study covers how unusual setups like that compare with the common Tier 5 tune.

Pagani's headline cars, the ones with the biggest real-world reputations, tend to be the slower ones in CSR2, which matches what we found across all the CSR2 hypercars.

Pininfarina and Dallara

The Pininfarina Battista is an electric hypercar, and its three versions sit together at 97th, 98th and 103rd. The purple-star Battista is worth the upgrade over gold: the gold-star record is 128th. The newer B95 is 136th. Our electric cars analysis explains why EVs like this sit well above the Tier 5 average without reaching the very top.

The Dallara Stradale is the quiet one. A lightweight road car from a company best known for racing chassis, it ranks 107th, close behind the Battista.

Maserati, and an unusual tune

Maserati's best is the MC20 Cielo at 394th, mid-table in Tier 5. What stands out is its tune: the MC20 records use a final drive of 5.00. Only ten Tier 5 records run that setting, and the rest are Corvette Z06s and one Jaguar. If you copy a typical Tier 5 tune onto an MC20, you won't get near its record.

The MC12 Stradale, Maserati's famous hypercar, is far lower, around 678th to 685th. In Tier 4, the GranTurismo MC sits near the bottom of the tier.

Below Tier 5: Alfa Romeo and Abarth

The smaller Italian names do their best work lower down:

• Alfa Romeo Giulia GTAm: 91st of 232 in Tier 4, with the 8C Spider at 111th.
• Alfa Romeo 4C Spider: 17th of 32 in Tier 2.
• Abarth 500: 10th of 16 in Tier 1.
• Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evo 2: the rally legend is in Tier 5, but at 680th it's a collector's car rather than a record car.

Which Italian car should you build?

• The fastest: the De Tomaso P900 Concept, 10th in Tier 5.
• A Pagani: the Huayra R Evo Roadster or a purple-star Utopia, all inside the top 90.
• An electric option: the purple-star Pininfarina Battista, 97th.
• For Tier 4: the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTAm.
• Avoid for racing: the original Pagani Huayra and the Maserati MC12, both deep in the bottom half of Tier 5.

Every car linked above is in our car collection, deliverable stock or fully maxed, and you can browse Pagani, De Tomaso, Maserati and Alfa Romeo on their own. For the rest of the field, see the fastest car from every brand.

The verdict

Beyond Ferrari and Lamborghini, Italy's best CSR2 car is the De Tomaso P900 Concept, 10th in Tier 5 and faster than any Ferrari (it also tops our concept cars ranking). Pagani has the deepest garage, with four cars in the top 100 but a typical record far lower, so pick the version carefully. Pininfarina and Dallara are strong Tier 5 choices, Maserati is mid-table at best, and Alfa Romeo earns its place in Tiers 2 and 4.