{"id":55460,"date":"2020-11-20T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T10:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=55460"},"modified":"2020-11-26T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:20:54","slug":"alfa-romeo-zeta-6-zagato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/alfa-romeo-zeta-6-zagato\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo Zeta 6 Zagato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sporty cars and the Alfa Romeo brand have a close relationship. However, there were times when both the brand itself and later the Fiat group pushed this combination into the background. Fans and coachbuilders didn’t want the brand’s sporting heritage and character to be forgotten. So it happened that two Alfa-based sports coup\u00e9s made their debut at the 1983 Geneva Motor Show. While the Bertone Delfino optically anticipated the Subaru SVX, but otherwise didn’t have any chance of going into production, this was different with the second car. Zagato took the then current Alfa Romeo GTV6 as a basis and created a 2+2-seater car called the Zeta 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An attempt to promote Zagato<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Historically, however, we have to go back several years to understand the origin of the Zeta 6. Due to the increasing spread of self-supporting bodies, small coachbuilders like Bertone, Vignale, Zagato and so on had less and less possibilities from the 1960s onwards. In addition, the large manufacturers increasingly took over the production of body variants such as coup\u00e9s and convertibles, which drew more orders away from the small companies. Zagato, for example, still designed the Bristol 412 presented in 1974 and then stood by without any follow-up work. Instead, the company concentrated at times on armoring limousines or the production of third-party orders. For example, they produced the Lancia Beta Spider for Pininfarina. Such a cooperation would have been unthinkable ten years earlier. To bring the Zagato name back to its former greatness, the then chief designer Giuseppe Mittino approached Alfa Romeo in 1979 with some sketches.<\/p>\n\n\n

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