A few months ago, Sports Car Market contacted me to write a story on a vehicle I had never heard of—the Cizeta 16T. After spending hours researching this rare early supercar, I became enthralled with its development, history, and very existence. In the May issue of Sports Car Market we take a deep dive into this 1990s Italian icon.
The article below can be enlarged by clicking on the images.
Just a side note, Claudio Zampolli passed away a couple weeks ago, today being July 25, so another classic innovator will be surely missed. This is all per my Santa Ana grapevine!
Great article on the Cizeta! I am in awe that this car was built with a passion to be a one-of-a-kind. Just looking at the comps let’s you see that the Cizeta was head and shoulders above the rest.
Peter, thank you! This is really an incredible car and I have the editor at Sports Car Market to thank for giving me the opportunity to get to know this car! It is spectacular and frankly a great value here….hope you are well!
The discarded yet superior original submitted design for the Lamborghini Diablo, turns out very well for Cizeta as it’s stupendous and what a car. Very high on my fav’s list but I sure wouldn’t want to have to maintain the beast. Still, it’s fantastic, I’ve loved this car since it’s inception….
Surprised the Vector W2 was not the “first” ? Although you do have an out with your title ending with a ?. 🙂
Plus it is US made. I saw an original Vector in the Mid- 80’s while on vacation in LA CA. could not stop hanging out my window to take pictures of it as it was driving around Beverly Hills … it took me a while back then to find it’s early history . No internet search available!
Thanks as always for your contributions to the motoring world.