Cizeta-Moroder V16T
The Cizeta V16T ( in the development phase Cizeta Moroder V16T - nor ) is an Italian super sports car whose special features are technically demanding sixteen -cylinder engine with 6.0 liter displacement and be the Lamborghini Diablo resembling body design.
History
Initiator of the project was the Italian engineer Claudio Zampolli. This worked formerly in the development department of Lamborghini and took over in the 1980s in Los Angeles representations for Lamborghini and Ferrari. In 1985 he started to work on a super sports car project. One and a half years later, when the development of the car was already quite advanced, the composer and Grammy - winner Giorgio Moroder involved in the project - and thus secured its realization. The aim of both was to provide an unequaled super sports car on the legs, which should make everything up to that competitors in the shade. As a designer Marcello Gandini was committed, who had already designed the Lamborghini Countach and about the same time in the design of the successor model, the Lamborghini Diablo, worked. In this regard, there were some conspicuous similarities between the Diablo and the Cizeta Moroder. It keep rumors that Gandini's Cizeta design really should be for the Diablo and the then Lamborghini owner Chrysler found the design to be too brutal.
The roadworthy prototype was presented after a development period of three years at the Geneva Motor Show 1988. Even before the Cizeta Moroder - launched into serial production, Giorgio Moroder got out of the company, leaving Claudio Camp Olli sole leadership. The only model which has been produced under the name Cizeta Moroder V16T -, was a prototype and remained in the possession of Moroder, as this left the company in 1990. This pre-production model bribed with various tests and driving reports, particularly by its sheer power of 399 kW ( 540 hp ), which inspired the trade press to consider the V16T as the super sports car, which was superior throughout the competition this time.
But the real start of series proved to be extremely difficult, the targeted date proved to be untenable. Due to the delay, due to a further revision of optics, jumped from the sponsors and had to be replaced with new donors. The desired number of pieces in the run of 40 units per year was last corrected on 10 models, which should leave the factory in Modena annually. Even this figure turned out to be a utopian.
Origin of the name
Cizeta derives from the Italian pronounced initials of Claudio Zampolli from: C = ci, Z = zeta; So Cizeta. V16T points to the 16 -cylinder V-type. T stands for " trasversale " meaning that the engine is mounted transversely.
Production
The demand for the approximately 300,000 U.S. dollars - in Germany has been specified, the purchase price of DM 527 250 - expensive vehicle fell far short of expectations. Between 1991 and the bankruptcy of the company in 1995, only eight cars were built including the prototype, two of which Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei included. One of these two V16T is now at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, California. It was intended maximum finish one vehicle per week, if required ie 52 pieces a year.
After the bankruptcy of the company Zampolli moved in the 1990s in the U.S., where it waits for exotic cars and builds on the Cizeta V16T request. So far, three more Cizeta V16T were completed: two coupes (the first in 1999 ), and the first and still the only Cizeta V16T Spyder (yellow, 2003). The three new vehicles have over the earlier models and the Moroder prototype on a slightly modified design in the front and the side air intakes. Two incomplete vehicles to have been incorporated in the late 1990s in containers, according to unconfirmed sources. Where these have remained exactly is currently not known.
The list price is ( excluding tax and shipping ) at 649,000 U.S. $ 849,000 or U.S. $ for the V16T Spyder TTJ, a deposit of U.S. $ 100,000 in the contract is due.
Motor and Technology
The Cizeta V16T has some technical features. The super sports car offered nominally the best conditions in order to outperform the fastest models of Ferrari and Co.. The body was extremely wide, made of light metal and styled exciting. The core of this giant, however, was the engine. Its 16- cylinder engine with 6.0 liter displacement was up to the appearance of the Bugatti Veyron for a long time the only one of its kind and is also installed transversely in the car, with the power tap in the middle of the motor. This construction also explains the enormous width of the Cizeta Moroder. Such a drive was last seen at the American luxury automobiles from Cadillac, the times of the world economic crisis by selling them more harm with the introduction of their 16- cylinder, but could increase the prestige over the years tremendously. Long years had V12 engines, the absolute engine for sports car, Cizeta broke this rule with a V16, which carried six liters capacity up to 399 kW ( 540 hp ) and its performance was sufficient to accelerate the cars to 325 km / h.
The designer of the engine, Oliviero Pedrazzi, had been employed in previous years just like Zampolli at Lamborghini. So he constructed the engine based on the 90 ° V - eight-cylinder engine from the Lamborghini Urraco P300. However, two Lamborghini V8 were not simply welded together, because in order to ensure the performance decline in the middle of the two eight-cylinder, some technical effort was needed. In addition, the machine is inclined by 15 degrees to the front to allow a lower center of gravity. Two large coolers dissipate the heat a 120 liter tank supplies the engine with fuel.
The motor is a synchronized ZF five- speed transmission connects to. It is also interesting that early vehicles have a Bosch K -Jetronic injection system, while later, a system was installed, the zulieferte an external company from Bologna with former employees of Weber- Marelli.
Apart from the roof is made of steel, the entire outer skin of the V16T aluminum. The tires on the Cizeta front with 245 mm and 335 mm wide rear with Pirelli P -Zero on two-piece 17-inch OZ rims. The brake discs, just like the rest of the braking system from Brembo, have a diameter of 12 inches. An anti -lock braking system is just as available as ESP or ASR. The simple cockpit is equipped with audio and air conditioning, leather upholstery is also standard. A more extensive comfort features but there is no.
Others
The Cizeta Cizeta - Moroder or brand and the V16T came many years in relative obscurity. The design of the car, however, was used as the basis for different vehicles in computer games.
1990 appeared in the Cizeta published for the Amiga 500 computer game Supercars on - but under the name " Retron Parsec Turbo". Self had the car in the 2005 computer game Gran Turismo 4 and Gran Turismo 5, 2010, as well as in Gran Turismo 6, where the player can drive this car.
Currently, a book and a DVD about the car in preparation.
Specifications
- Installed 90 ° V16 mid-engine, transversely: Motor
- Valves: 64 (4 per cylinder ), double overhead camshafts
- Electronic Fuel Injection Weber- Marelli or Bosch K -Jetronic
- Displacement: 5995 cc ( Bore × Stroke: 86.0 × 64.5 mm)
- Power: 399 kW ( 540 hp) at 8000 rpm
- Torque: 542 Nm at 6000 rpm
- Transmission: 5- speed manual ZF
- 0-100 km / h: 4,5 s in
- Vmax: 328 km / h