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COMING JUNE 2026
Claudio Zampolli did not set out to build a sensible car. With a gift for engineering and a catastrophic disregard for practical business realities, he believed Ferrari and Lamborghini had grown too restrained. In the late 1980s, alongside Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder, Zampolli launched the first new Italian exotic car company in decades and created one of the most outrageous supercars ever conceived: the Cizeta V16T. With its Marcello Gandini-designed wedge body and transversely mounted 16-cylinder engine, the V16T looked less like a production automobile than an escaped artifact from a parallel future. Excessive, wildly ambitious, and mechanically astonishing, it immediately secured its place as one of the most unforgettable cars of its era.
This book tells the complete story of the Cizeta project, from the development of its extraordinary V16 engine to the handful of production cars ultimately completed. Featuring rare archival photography, chassis histories, technical analysis, and detailed examinations of every known production example, it chronicles both the triumph and collapse of a company attempting the impossible in the brutal supercar market of the early 1990s. The Cizeta V16T may have failed commercially, but decades later it remains one of the purest expressions of unchecked automotive ambition ever placed on the road.
