Do not feel bad if you do not hear, car world lovers, about Cizeeta-Moroder v16t. Little is said about this car today, and one of the main reasons for this is that the project, which seemed promising, End in the rubble.
The work that may tell the story of this weird sports car is the book.16: Photo date for CIZETA AUTOMOBILI“, Written Brian speaks It was published by Editora Everbest in 2012.
Claudio Zamboli, “Aug”, was born in Modena, Italy. Be an employee Lamborghini Until he moves to the United States to work to maintain strange sport.
NCalifornia, Zamboli built a good relationship with celebrities from the cinema and the world of music, which transported their cars to the Italian workshop. Through this network of contacts, I met Claudio producer and music composer Giorgio Moroderand This will later become his partner in the Sports Building V16T Sports.
This is how Cisita-Hamuder was born. “CIZETA”, by the way, corresponds to the first letters of Claudio Zamboli written in Italian.
In the 1980s, Zampolli sold his sports cars to start the contract to create his own car. This, by the way, was not any group. She had the famous Ferrari and Lamborghini cars. According to Hagerty presses, these cars deserve about $ 55 million today (or 311.5 million dollars), as they gained value over the decades.
Try to present more than time, CIZETA is equipped with V16 engineWith four cylinders more than V12 competitors. V16 was 6.0, 64 valves, eight driving axes, fuel injection systems, four heads and leadership chains. It produced the declared power 547 CV 8,000 courses per minute e 55 kg From torque in 6000 rpm.
The model should have been reliable, and to a level, practical. Zamboli, since the time he was working in his workshop in California, has known that one of the main complaints of American consumers to Italian sport was directed to the extent of fragility and broke it a lot. So in her car, Zamboli had to do better.
If the V16T design is familiar to you, know not only your impression: the form is designed by Marcelo GandiniThe Italian designer who fell famous cars like Lamborghini Conte and Dablo.
Most of the Lamborghini V16T engineers came fromhow Oliviero PedraziWhich designed the Cyzeta engine. Some of the component suppliers were also the same Italian brand.
The classic pop -up headlights were common in sports. However, since the V16t was “more” than everything, there were heads of heads up on each side of the cap. Inside, the model had a greater comfort than its competitors, with functional air and electric windows.
Moroder has made money in the project, while Zampolli led the artistic part. A launch event was held in California in 1988, when the car was introduced to the public by American comedian Jay Lino.
From there, problems began to clarify. There was a slow process of completing the carApproval and production of customer cars who have already deposited. Brian’s book and talks and reports reports of Moroder’s dissatisfaction with this delay.
Muroder tried to even get ingredients with Porsche suppliers to finish the project, which ended up generating friction with Zamboli. Then the partnership dream. It has ended with the Moroder with the initial V16T model, which is still in its pasta to this day.
The production of the customer’s customer will follow slowly. Another model of the success of the model is that V16T was unforgettable in the United States. There is still hope, with requests from Asia. However, the The recession of the United States in 1990 and the Japanese economic crisis closed the fate (Which, at that moment, was just Cesa).
Nine V16T units were produced when Zampolli faced bankruptcy. In 2003, a convertible unit of the model, called CIZETA FENICE TTJ Spyder, was completed for an Italian customer.
However, the story of this brand did not end there. It should be noted that Zamboli filed a lawsuit against Jay Lino at $ 150 million, claiming defamation of the comments that the comedian could have filed. The process was presented. After that, a lawsuit was against Zambouli by his lawyer.
The list of discontent in Zamboli does not end there. In his official Facebook file, the businessman attacked people like Valentino Balboni, a former Lamborghini test driver, and even Wiklem, author of the Zampolli book previously cooperated to the story of the V16T story.
Even after all this, Zampolli still has a workshop that worked as the last base of CIZETA, located in California.
Street units
Cizeeta did not become the successful company whose ideal partners initially made, but it may not be appropriate to classify it as a complete failure, as the car reached production and some street units gained.
In the status of “super sports” made, the V16T is evacuated to this day. Claudio Zamboli, even with all the legal and personal differences that involve his name, He was bold to create his own sporting sport that exceeded what any other car provided at that time.