This is the 2018 ItalDesign Zerouno Duerta (9000) by Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A. from within their specialized department known as ItalDesign Automobili Speciali. While attending the Turin Art School in the 1950s, having been born into a family of artists, Italian car stylist and automotive design pioneer Giorgetto Giugiaro's imaginative and impressive design sketches were noticed by Dante Giacosa, Fiat's technical director at the time. Giorgetto was ultimately offered a job working in the company's design office in 1955. Seeking the ability to express his own ideas with more freedom, Giorgetto left Fiat in 1959 at the young age of just 21 years old to join forces with Italian industrial design company, @bertone_official, as head of their styling department. After around 6 years with Bertone, Giorgetto moved to Italian automobile design firm Carrozzeria Ghia SpA, but after only 2 years he'd go on to create his very own design studio alongside engineer Aldo Mantovani known initially as Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi S.p.A. (later known as ItalDesign by February 1968). While Giugiaro is no longer with the company since July of 2015, a new company founded in the same year known as GFG Style, serves as the current design house of Giorgetto and his son Fabrizio Giugiaro. ItalDesign on the other hand continued to develop new projects beyond 2015, with the very first one to launch under the companies Automobili Speciali department being the Zerouno. The Zerouno was first announced as a coupe model at the 2017 Geneva Snow with the unique styling being handled by Head of Design at Italdesign in Italy Filippo Perini’s in-house design team. During the 2018 Geneva Show, the company revealed an open-top variant known as the Deurta, which means “open” in Piedmontese dialect. The Deurta is the second chapter to Automobili Speciali’s history, and the design team kept a strict focus on retaining all of the performance and functionality of the coupe.
How many made? 5 planned, 1 built
Engine: 5.2 L FSI Lamborghini V10
Debut: 2018 Geneva Motor show
Top Speed: around 205mph
0-60mph: around 3.2 seconds
Photo Credit: @_swisscarspotting_
Research: @rarecarsonly