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Revision as of 07:40, 19 August 2007
Zagato is a modern design consultancy and engineering services company situated just outside Milan, the hub of Italy's world-famous fashion industry. The company's premises occupy an area of 23,000 square metres, of which 11,000 square metres are covered.
The company was established at the end of the World War I by Ugo Zagato, putting aircraft industry construction techniques to use in the expanding market for passenger vehicles. Zagato's cars were advanced in design and became synonymous with light weight and excellent aerodynamics. Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia immediately realised the advantages of his rakish, streamlined designs. A collaboration followed which saw the creation of a series of legendary racing cars, such as the Alfa Romeo 1500, then the 1750 Gran Sport, and the 2300 8C.
After the World II, Zagato was very much active on this field of GT cars,a new racing category. Avant-garde styling, together with light weight and wind-cheating lines were main features of Zagato's models for the leading sports car manufacturers of that era - Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Lancia, Abarth, Ferrari, and Aston Martin. In addition to the cars that were produced officially in small series, the company also built exclusive one-offs and prototypes for other illustrious marques, such as Ford, Jaguar, MG, Rover, Volvo, Bristol, and Rolls-Royce.
This may be the origin of the letter Z being used in the names of so many high performance cars. (An American television body shop add. about "Z"s, including "an Italian Z" supports this.) Of course, a letter can no more be trademarked than can be a bird or animal name or a way of using numbers.
Currently, Zagato is headed by Andrea Zagato.
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Zagato cars
- 1929: Alfa Romeo 6C 1500
- 1932: Alfa Romeo 8C 2300
- 1937: Alfa Romeo 8C 2900
- 1932: Alfa Romeo 6C 1750
- 1949: Maserati A6 1500 Panoramica
- 1954: Maserati A6 G/54 2000
- 1957: Lancia Appia GT
- 1957: Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ
- 1958: Lancia Flaminia Sport
- 1952: Fiat 8V
- 1960: Aston Martin DB4 GT
- 1960: Bristol 405
- 1962: Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint Zagato
- 1962: Lancia Flavia Sport
- 1963: Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ
- 1965: Alfa Romeo Gran Sport Quattroruote
- 1966: Lancia Fulvia Sport
- 1969: Alfa Romeo GT Junior Zagato
- 1976: Lancia Beta Spider
- 1984: Maserati Biturbo Spider
- 1988: Aston Martin Vantage
- 1989: Alfa Romeo SZ
Ferrari 575 GTZ Zagato 50 year special edition of the 250 GT Zagato
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