Show Us The Best Failed Italian Supercars

The supercar business is tough. Designing a new model from the ground up takes a lot of time, and even if the company gets the mechanics and the technology from one of the big guys, development and testing will cost a lot of money. Building unique bodies is very labor intensive, low volume keeps component prices high,…

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For €320,000, bizz in your pants

The incestuous relationships between the Italian super car makers in the 1960s is legend. Today's also legendary Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1967 Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada is the offspring of that industrial interbreeding, but will its price require a vecchio amante danaroso?

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Jalopneronomy 8:3: Man Can Live By Breadvan Alone

What happens when Enzo Ferrari won't give you a GTO? You upgrade a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, turn it into a Kammbacked masterpiece and call it Drogo, a.k.a., the "breadvan," a.k.a., a Ferrari both sexy and totally bizzarre-ini. [formfreu.de]

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African Supercar: The New Strada Project

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A new Italian sports car inspired by African masks? Sure, I'm game. According to Car Body Design, the the African Automotive Design Association teamed up with an Italian engineering collective to create a new supercar model inspired by the 1969 Bizzarrini Strada GT 5300. Designer Jonathan Kasumba's sketches (see above …

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