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Bizzarrini Giotto

For heaven’s sake!

It had been assumed that the revival of the 5300 GT Corsa was just a prelude, the new edition of the icon in 24 copies serving as a warm-up. Now the new Bizzarrini company, backed by the Pegasus Group, which in turn is now backed by Rezam Mohammad Alroumi, a Kuwaiti who was heavily involved in Aston Martin Lagonda between 2007 and 2018, has announced that it will put a hypercar on the road. Also involved in the project are Ulrich Bez, now chief executive of Bizzarrini, once head of Aston, before that with a long career at Porsche, BMW and Daewoo; Christopher Sheppard, also an ex-Aston man, now CEO of the new company; Chris Porritt, another Aston man, with experience at Rimac and Tesla, now chief engineer. The young company has pitched its tents in a brand new factory in Nottinghamshire, about ten minutes’ walk from Bizzarrini’s former headquarters; perhaps we’ve got something mixed up there, too, willy-nilly.

As if there weren’t enough (unsuccessful) hypercar projects already, the English are now adding one more. Not much is known yet, so we have to make do with a sketch. But it was done by Giorgetto Giugiaro (probably with a little help from his son Fabrizio). It sounds great in principle, but Giotto Bizzarrini has always vehemently denied that Giugiaro had anything to do with his cars. On the contrary, Giotto really got Giorgetto’s career going when he gave him the chassis for the Manta, Italdesign’s first creation. The enthusiasm of the great master, now 97, was probably very limited.

The “new Bizzarrini” cryptically states that the hypercar called Giotto will be powered by an “exclusive” V12 with an 8-speed dual-clutch gearbox. By exclusive we would now understand: a proprietary development. But this is not the case, the engine is bought in. The first thought is of course: Lamborghini, after all, Giotto Bizzarrini once developed the legendary V12, which drove the cars from Sant’Agata for a small eternity, most recently in the Murcielago. But it’s probably different, Lamborghini doesn’t have a DKG for its V12, so I guess only Ferrari is an option. For heaven’s sake, Ferrari, that’s where Giotto Bizzarrini’s great career began, but after the palace revolution at the end of October 1961, that was also the big bogeyman.

Well, we don’t really know what’s up with the revival of big names by a few car hobbyists anyway. But when they trample on the history of their role models with both feet, there is a complete lack of understanding. The new construct from Nottinghamshire could well have been called “étron” or “Bezli” or “Mohammad” – the thing has nothing even remotely to do with Bizzarrini.

We have more (unsuccessful) hyper/supercars: here. You can find the real Bizzarrini: here.

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