2017 Italdesign Zerouno

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"Lightweight". This was the starting concept that designers and engineers implemented for the Italdesign Zerouno project. Right from the first styling draft, the Styling Centre and the Engineering Development Department implemented what is defined as simultaneous engineering, a work method developed and perfected by Italdesign way back at the end of the 1960s and constantly improved over the company's almost fifty-year history.

Designers and engineers work simultaneously to carry forward styling solutions and functional-feasibility checks until an ideal compromise is achieved that meets design and performance requirements alike. Functional design has always distinguished projects set in motion and developed in Moncalieri: there are no styling proposals at Italdesign that do not also simultaneously embrace a technical solution.

"The development of the Zerouno was based on the know-how achieved in the designing of hundreds of cars in our 49-years history" Antonio Casu, Chief Technical Officer, said. "To reach the timing target we applied the latest CAx and Simulation Technologies. Styling has been integrated since the very beginning with early engineering and production processes. All this allowed us to produce a state-of-the-art car in terms of performance and safety."

Limiting the final weight of the car as far as possible in order to ensure exceptional performances by equally emphasising the carbon fibre and aluminium chassis and the powerful V10 5.2 naturally aspired engine was the objective defined right from the start of this project.

https://www.netcarshow.com/italdesign/2017-zerouno/

 

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Damn that's sexy.

 

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Jeez. It looks massive in this picture

 

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http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/m...design-zerouno-v10-supercar-gets-geneva-debut

 

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Nice face shame about the arse

 

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Lamborghini engine obviously, but did they build it this time like the Calà back in the day?

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Never mind I see Lamborghini actually owns them since 2010 so that answers that question.

 

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I've been begging Turn 10 to add Italdesign to FH3 for months :/

 

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http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/m...g-italdesign-lamborghinis-iconic-design-house

 

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First Italdesign Zerouno to be shown in production form at Salon Prive

Legendary Italian design house has produced its own-brand model for the first time to rival Audi R8

The first customer-owned Italdesign Zerouno will be on show at this year's Salon Privé event, which takes place at Blenheim Palace from 31 August.

The new V10 supercar has been launched by the famous Turin-based design house and is being built in just five examples.

Italdesign, founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in the late 1960s and now part of the Volkswagen Group, used the car earlier this year to launch a super-exclusive ‘own-brand’ at the Geneva motor show.

The car, which introduces a new marque called Italdesign Automobili Speciali, has a starting price of more than £1.3 million but is tipped to cost close to £2m after individual owners add their options. These include a wide variety of trim, equipment and performance personalisation options.

The five customer cars have been aimed at “collectors and visionary enthusiasts”.

“For the first time we can offer collectors the chance to order a true made-to-measure car,” said Filippo Perini, Italdesign’s supercar project chief and head of innovation design. Perini added that every year from now on, the company will develop a new car bearing its own badge, “always in a very exclusive number of examples”.

The new supercar uses a 5.2-litre V10 engine shared with the top-end versions of the Audi R8. It also adopts Audi’s quattro permanent four-wheel drive system. Top speed is estimated at 205mph and the 0-62mph acceleration time will be just 3.2sec.

The company’s engineers promise “racing car performance with type approval”, so the car can be used on normal roads.

Sophisticated aerodynamics and lightweight construction will be major themes in Italdesign’s new supercar. The body features a prominent front splitter, louvres over the wheel arches to relieve air pressure, side-mounted fins and a racing-style rear spoiler that works in conjunction with a large under-body diffuser to tune the car’s high-speed aerodynamics.

The body panels are made entirely of carbonfibre, and the car is expected to have a kerb weight which will undercut the Volkswagen Group’s other V10-engined supercar models — the R8 and the Lamborghini Aventador — which weigh 1595kg and 1575kg respectively.

The overall impression of the styling is of a modernised Lancia Stratos, although Italdesign’s supercar is more than a metre longer. It is similar in footprint to the Lamborghini Aventador, at 4.87 metres in overall length.

The relationship with Lamborghini is far from coincidental, given that it was Audi-owned Lamborghini that completed a purchase of Italdesign in 2015, having bought a 90% interest from the Giugiaro family five years earlier.

The new car’s engineers have revealed little about the provenance of their new car’s underpinnings, confirming only that it uses “a modular chassis in carbonfibre and aluminium”.

There’s no suggestion that anyone but Italdesign created this car, however. Company insiders say it is the work of a 60-strong band of designers, engineers, technicians and composite experts, brought together under Perini.

“This project is the result of almost 50 years’ expertise in design, engineering and construction of fully functional automobiles,” said Perini. “We are absolutely delighted to make our debut in this market.”

Salon Privé co-founder David Bagley said of the car's UK reveal: “It’s an honour to be chosen as the location to host Italdesign’s UK debut. Following the Zerouno’s official launch at Geneva this year, where we also saw the new painted Pirelli P-Zero tyres, I’m delighted to welcome Italdesign and its sublime supercar to Salon Privé this year".

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...-zerouno-be-shown-production-form-salon-prive

 

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Shmee checks one out

[video=youtube_share;J9mkQsua8L4]https://youtu.be/J9mkQsua8L4[/video]

 

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£1.3m Italdesign Zerouno sold out ahead of Pebble Beach public debut

Legendary Italian design house has produced its own-brand model for the first time to rival the Audi R8; a follow-up roadster looks likely

All five slots for the Italdesign Zerouno have been sold to customers - but the brand is investigating producing a roadster version to cater to remaining demand.

Following the public debut of its first car at the Geneva motor show, the brand will bring chassis number 002 (finished in red) to the upcoming Pebble Beach show in California. Italdesign is also due to show a Zerouno at the Salon Privé event, which takes place at Blenheim Palace from 31 August.

The new V10 supercar is capable of over 200mph and has been launched by the famous Turin-based design house, which was founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in the late 1960s and now part of the Volkswagen Group. It marks the first of several planned low-volume models produced by the new Italdesign Automobili Speciali.

Although not officially revealed, the entry-level price for a Zerouno is said to be more than £1.3 million - but it is tipped to cost close to £2m after owners add their chosen extras. These include a wide variety of trim, equipment and performance personalisation options.

The five customer cars have been aimed at “collectors and visionary enthusiasts”. The brand said it still has several buyers after a car, so it will gauge the "possibility to build a roadster version", having already opened "dialogue with customers worldwide to truly materialise their wishes into it".

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...ouno-sold-out-ahead-pebble-beach-public-debut

 

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Italdesign Zerouno Convertible

Italdesign will unveil a convertible version of the Zerouno at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show.

https://www.netcarshow.com/italdesign/2018-zerouno_convertible/

 

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Too many high priced sports cars in the market..the rich Charlie Uniform November Tango's seem to not know what to do with their money around the world..this is just another none!!

 

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The rebirth of Italdesign: £1.5m Zerouno hypercar driven

Italdesign has revived ambition a half-century on from its birth. We drive its extravagantly-priced hypercar to discover what it means for the company's future

This is a scene that has played out many times over the past 70 years. An other-worldly wheeled machine, as low as a dining table and much the same size, ricochets yelping bullets of sound through the scenery as it darts along a thread of road.

Often bright-coloured and gashed with odd-shaped apertures, it frequently leaves a wake of the open-mouthed and curious behind it. They may not know who its creators are, but they’ll know that it’s outrageously fast, outrageously expensive and outrageous to behold.

That scene has just repeated among the vine-ribbed hills around Alba, Asti and Cuneo in Italy, the Italdesign Zerouno gathering clusters of cyclists, smartphone-wielding truckers and gawping hikers as it bounds between villages.

The Zerouno is the latest supercar born out of the Italdesign studios in Moncalieri on the edge of Turin, one of literally dozens of extreme sports cars to have emerged from this temple of creation over the past 50 years. What’s different about the Zerouno, apart from it being extreme enough of construction, speed and price to be classified as a hypercar, is the nature of its industrial-sized mission. All five of these €1.5 million machines (yes, you read that right, and that’s without taxes) are already sold, as are two of the final five of the targa-roofed Zerouno Duertas.

That mission is to be a high-speed calling card for Italdesign, whose remit has changed. You may recall that this achievement-rich Italian vehicle design and engineering business, founded in 1968 by designer Giorgetto Giugiaro and engineer Aldo Mantovani, was in 2010 bought by the Volkswagen Group, thus ending its independence while also ensuring that it benefited from a regular supply of work.

True, it was Italdesign that created, in the original Golf, the car that saved VW, but this prolific company has also produced any number of landmark Fiats including the Panda, Uno and Punto, as well as beautiful Alfa Romeos, Maseratis, the BMW M1, the Lotus Esprit and countless concept cars, many of them highly influential. So the harnessing of Italdesign to one car-making group was in some ways a sad outcome, even if the future of vehicle carrozzeria has turned precarious over the past two decades, the climate threatening Pininfarina and snuffing out Bertone.

Happily, Italdesign’s fresh remit is to chase for business not only with the VW Group but also every other car maker, just as it used to. The reason for that change of direction is rather unexpectedly linked to a scandal, namely the 2015 revelation of VW’s diesel emission misdemeanour(s), the aftermath of which saw a decline in Italdesign’s orders. At the end of the same year, it started looking for work beyond the VW Group. “In 2015, only 1% of our business was for external clients,” says CEO Jörg Astalosch. “Now it’s 25%, and the aim is to get to 50%.”

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/rebirth-italdesign-£15m-zerouno-hypercar-driven

 

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