Ferrari and Zagato’s relationship formed one of the most desirable ‘marriages’ in car design, the 250GT Zagato. Together, it was their most fruitful supercar and it’s almost ashame these were only ever made by customer requests for a few clients. As the ultimate combination, the GTZ allied the already proven Ferrari 250 Tour de France chassis with Zagato’s curvaceous low drag body. It practically guaranteed success.

For the Ferrari 250, Zagato used his lightweight, aeronautic techniques which he first adopted when founding his coach building company in 1919. This meant the lightweight and purposeful bodywork on the 250 GTZ not only looked incredible, it helped Camillo Luglio became the Italian sports car champion.

Zagato will now celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GTZ of 1956 with a new model, based on the 575 Maranello. The 250 GTZ was the inspiration for the new model, known as the “Zero”, and this is the reason why the historical 250 GTZ was on display at the Geneva Motor Show.

Zagato is a design house and coachbuilder from Italy. Like its ancestor, the 575 Zero will be made entirely in aluminium and, as a tribute to Ferrari and to two-seater Italian sports cars, it will become one of the most exclusive models of Zagato tradition. Like the 250 GTZ on show, it too will have two-tone paintwork, and stylistic features and lines that hark explicitly back to the 1950s, and will epitomise the personality of the many cars produced by Zagato to “dress” original engineering in the purest style of sporting tradition, with the collaboration of these two prestigious brands.

Tags: Ferrari, 250, 250 GT, GTZ, Zagato