The Zagato AGTZ Twin Tail, the famed design home’s fashionable reinterpretation of the Alpine A220 Le Mans racer, will make its debut at Lake Como, Italy, this weekend.
Based on the Alpine A110, it is a 248bhp ultra-lightweight racer for the highway, borne out of a three way partnership between Zagato and Polish supercar vendor La Squadra.
Zagato will construct a complete of 19 examples, with every taking greater than 1000 hours to assemble. The automobile is priced from €650,000 (£550,000), excluding taxes, making the Twin Tail probably the most costly four-cylinder automobiles ever to go on sale.
It has been coachbuilt by Zagato predominantly utilizing carbonfibre and options an elongated rear deck that may be eliminated to permit the driving force to modify it between long-tail and short-tail guises – therefore the identify Twin Tail. With the extension in place, it is 622mm longer than a regular A110.
According to its creators, it is considerably extra aerodynamic and steady at excessive pace.
To that finish, it makes use of the base-model A110’s turbocharged 1.8-litre four-pot engine. This provides the Twin Tail a 155mph high pace and 0-62mph dash time of lower than 5.0sec, Zagato claims. For reference, the usual A110 hits 62mph in 4.5sec and also will do 155mph.
Zagato has but to publish an official kerb weight, however – given the Twin Tail’s carbonfibre building – it is anticipated to be lighter than the A110, which ideas the scales at 1102kg.
