Zagato plans Ferrari 575 "Zero"
Italian design house and coachbuilder Zagato displayed many of its classic cars at the Geneva Motor Show this year, but one of them had special significance - the 1956 Ferrari 250 GTZ. The classic custom Ferrari, shown above in a period photograph, has won both races and concours competitions in its 50 year lifetime as one of the most beautiful Ferraris ever built.
The 250 GTZ is the inspiration for Zagato's forthcoming Ferrari, the 575 "Zero." To commemorate the 250 GTZ, the new car will share the two-tone paintwork as well as various styling cues evocative of the '50s, undoubtedly including Zagato's trademark "double-bubble" roofline.
Zagato is keeping the 575 Z under wraps, so for now we have to be content with admiring the 250 GTZ - and that's OK by us.
[Source: Zagato] Thanks for the tip, Noah!
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Gunnar Heinrich 12:58PM (3/08/2006)
Aston Martin tried that a few years ago. Apparently, the rear bubble rear windshield was so tricky to craft that it took an average of two tries to get it right.
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Alex Cook 1:01PM (3/08/2006)
That Ferrari 250 looks astonishingly similar to the BMW 507 of the same era. I wonder which was designed first.
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DJ 4:12PM (3/08/2006)
It's one thing to go retro with a ponycar/musclecar, but not a Ferrari. These are the icons of an incredible era for sports cars, like the BMW 507 mentioned previously, the Aston Martin DB5 (which I believe was a Zagato design) and others. Just not natural to mess with them.
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Tom Design 5:55AM (3/09/2006)
It sure is okay! We can look at this car for a long time, thank you! I hope the new car has chrome/metal bumpers took, not this moldy plastic covering that's so accepted since the mid-80's. We are starting to see some real fender shapes, the RX-8, the Mercedes SL and I predict the return of the rear fender shape soon. But, where has the beautiful, structural bumper gone? who wants to see a gouged, scraped piece of plastic after two years of city driving? Real bumpers don't need to be cosmetically repainted every year with expensive flexor paints. It is made out of metal and involves either absurd protection like this car, the early Camaro Rally Sport, the Alfa Spider's chrome afterthought bumper, or a big bar of metal like a guard rail. All this molded plastic where you should see structure just isn't right. Cars are designed best when their underpinnings are part of the design, and organic flow. Not draping plastic shrouds and obtuse shapes onto some "thing" underneath. This car is a perfect example of elegant auto shape, structure and style.
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