Everything about the Cizeta-Moroder is over the top, glue-sniffing, nuclear-suitcase crazy. The design is by Macello Gandini, who designed the Lamborghini Countach and Miura, as well as dozens of other famous cars. The story goes that when Lamborghini botched Gandini’s design for the Countach replacement, he offered the design to former Lamborghini engineer Claudio Zampolli and Giorgio Moroder. The engine is a 6.0 liter V16, which makes 540 horsepower (not bad for 1991), is mounted transversely in the middle of the car. Supposedly 0-60 acceleration was about 4 seconds and the top speed was 204 miles per hour. Prices were about what you’d expect, something around $300,000 when they were made twenty years ago, and the unofficial reports is that approximately ten were produced.
Posted By: Justin Berkowitz | 7 Comments »
Tags: Cizeta Cizeta-Moroder Cizeta-Moroder V16T Countach Lamborghini Countach Lamborghini Miura Lamborghinia Marcello Ganini Miura Supercars V16
Oh, man, you gotta hear this in person. I’ve been fortunate to be in the right place at the right time when Claudio Zampolli (CZ, in Italian, it’s pronounced Cizeta) has shown up with one of the red cars shown above. Oh. My. Gwad. Two three-liter V8s sammiched together with short pipes makes my man-bits tingle.
FYI, it’s Marcello Gandini. Eight cars were built in period, two more were “continuation” models.
I have to say those headlights make it look like the family truckster of supercars. As badass as it may be, those headlights are not doing it any favors.
@FasterFarmsShawn: I saw one at the original Cars and Coffee when it was held in the starbucks parking lot in Newport Coast… I believe it was driven by CZ as well.
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Harumph is right
Thank god I saw it at Cars & Coffee with the headlights down. Harumph is spot on, they totally ruin it.
Oh snap, the wacky Giorgio Moroder supercar!
FWIW, GM was the exceedingly mustachioed Italian man behind pretty much every disco hit Donna Summer ever had. The man can program an analog synth like there’s no tomorrow.
I LOVE those headlights. They would make every nightfall a HAPPENING, man.