Most importantly, they would not be referred to as the Cizeta-Moroders, as the partnership between Zampolli and Moroder is said to have stalled due to delays prior to production. Cizetas were extremely complex cars, after all (remember, eight-fold overhead cams), and at $ 657,000 in modern times, they weren’t cheap either. But Zampolli and Moroder had still achieved what they set out to do – to build a supercar – one that, due to its extremity, deserves to be part of the supercar pantheon with the Ferrari F40, McLaren F1 and Lamborghini Countach.
In contrast to the Countach, whose concept had to be laboriously recreated for over 25,000 hours due to the destruction of the concept, Cizeta 001 survived and was kept by Moroder after he left the show circus. In 2018 it was shipped to California for restoration, where it also received decisive functional improvements, in particular an additional heat shield on the fuel tank. It will be up for sale soon as RM Sotheby’s plans to auction the car in Phoenix, Arizona on January 27, 2022. The auction house doesn’t offer an estimated knockdown price, but don’t be surprised to find it in the top six to the low seven digits. That just seems like the price to play with sixteen cylinders.
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