{"id":28643,"date":"2018-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/30-years-of-cizeta-v16t\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:00:23","slug":"30-years-of-cizeta-v16t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/30-years-of-cizeta-v16t\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Cizeta V16T"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claudio Zampolli learned his job during his time in the development department of Lamborghini. After he left the Italian car maker he took over a sports car dealership for Ferrari and Lamborghini in Los Angeles. A few years later he started working on his own sports car project for which he was able to get financial support from Giorgio Moroder, composer and many times Oscar winner. They founded the company Cizeta-Moroder. Cizeta is an artificial word for the Italian initials of Claudio Zampolli (ci = C and zeta = Z). The unique supercar should take the automotive world by storm and showed many technical improvements compared to its competitors of the time.

Therefore Zampolli developed a spaceframe and ordered a special engine at his old friend from his days at Lamborghini, Oliviero Pedrazzi: a sixteen-cylinder engine in V configuration, which was mounted transverse into the frame. That\u2019s how the car got its name V16T. In the middle of the block sits the power output into the rear mounted five-speed ZF gearbox. The powerplant has been developed with the technical outlines of the Lamborghini Urraco V8 engine, but also some major improvements. From its six liters of displacement the engineers got 399 kW\/540 PS. Topspeed is said to be more than 202 mph.

For the styling of his supercar Zampolli asked well-known designer Marcello Gandini, who had already sketched many Lamborghini models before. His first attempt didn\u2019t fit the expectations of neither Zampolli nor Moroder. But when showed a second set of sketches and a new model in scale of 1:5 Zampolli was happy: it was as radical and unusual as he liked his car to be. Little did he know that Gandini earlier showed this very design as P132 to Lamborghini, where it was disliked by that-time owner Chrysler. Without his knowing the Lamborghini design department refined that car to become the Diablo in 1990 \u2013 still very similar to the Cizeta V16T, even visible to non-car fans. But the Cizeta got some details Lamborghini wouldn\u2019t produce, like four folding headlights and the very big and flat bonnet with integrated rear spoiler. The prototype and two production cars for Brunei showed horizontal bars at the side air intakes and other front intakes then later production cars, which also got vertical bars at the sides.<\/p>\n\n\n

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