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The Bizzarrini Giotto is a V12-powered, carbon-fibre wrapped celebration of the best of Italian supercar engineering

Published on 1 February 2023

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With its revival of a name etched into the history of Italian sports and supercars, the Bizzarrini Giotto is a celebration of the speed, glamor and engineering prowess we usually associate with the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. In fact, Giotto Bizzarrini himself was associated with both these brands back in the day, as well as building cars under his own name. And this new model celebrates these traditions, and his formidable reputation as a designer, engineer and driver all reimagined into a dramatic and exclusive modern supercar with a red-blooded V12 engine at its heart.
To understand why this will resonate with the kind of people who spend seven-figure sums on cars like this a short history lesson is required. From working at Ferrari, Giotto Bizzarrini went on to create his own car called the 5300 GT, which was styled by legendary Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro and raced to a class win against his former employers at Le Mans in the mid-60s. From here Bizzarrini moved to Lamborghini, designing the legendary V12 engine at the heart of its cars for decades to follow.

Bizzarrini the brand was reborn more recently, and started out with new-build versions of that legendary 5300 GT for well-heeled fans to enjoy on the road or race track. The new Giotto, meanwhile, gathers all these threads together into an all-new, modern hypercar intended to celebrate this incredible history.
Facts and statistics are currently thin on the ground but Bizzarrini has so far revealed the looks, which revive the old relationship with Giugiaro and use swooping, aerodynamically honed bodywork made from lightweight carbon fibre, complete with knowing references to that old 5300 GT. Beneath it, we are promised, will be an ‘exclusive’ V12 engine intended to celebrate Bizzarrini’s role in designing the same for Lamborghini all those years ago. We’ll have to wait and see how much power it will have, and how fast the Giotto will go, but the British engineering team behind it bring formidable expertise, the chief technical officer having worked on the incredible One-77 hypercar in a previous role at Aston Martin before spells at Tesla and then electric hypercar specialists Rimac.

With the promise of that traditional V12 petrol engine in mind we’d speculate the Giotto will be competing against cars like Aston Martin’s F1-inspired Valkyrie and the ultra-minimalist T.50 created by legendary race and road car engineer Gordon Murray, given their positioning as a purist, petrolhead ripostes to the hybrid and electric models currently flooding the hypercar market.
We’ll have to wait and see on that. But the combination of Bizzarrini’s formidable legacy and the latest technology could prove to be a winning blend.