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sultan of brunei

A Garage Fit For a King: The Best Of The Sultan Of Brunei's Amazing Car Collection

Ferrari wagon-izations and hypercars bathed in magnetizing yellow are just a couple hints the Sultan of Brunei is perhaps the most Jalopnik head of state in the whole world. Like us, he seems to have a maddening obsession with odd cars. However, what sets him apart is his seemingly unending pot of money with which to manifest his wildest automotive fantasies. Although word on the streets of Bandar Seri Begawan is his fiscal fortunes have depleted as of late, before he sold off some of his assets, he and his family created what may be the most impressive car collection the world has ever seen. Although we already knew this, it wasn't until we were surfing the pages of our fave super car photo site that we realized the sheer height of awesome the collection truly achieved. Not only did they gather production cars, they commissioned the creation of entirely new models from manufacturers like Ferrari, Aston Martin, and Bentley. Hit the jump as we walk you through the crème de' le' crème of the massive collection of automotive exotica found in the garage of the Sultan of Brunei. More »

Feature

12:30 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Mark Arnold
21,691 views, 92 comments

Latest by donkeyassman: The rolls has a backseat big enough to preform an abortion in more »

retro

1989 Autech Stelvio: Adventures In Ridiculous

When we first saw a picture of the 1989 Autech Stelvio, we assumed it was some sort of hideous one-off Japanese concept car. It turns out the car is actually part of a limited run Nissan supercar designed by Zagato. Produced by Autech, Nissan's special performance company, the cars are based on what we know as the Infiniti M30 platform, but featuring a 320 horsepower DOHC V6. After assembly, the chassis were sent to Zagato to be fitted with the... unique bodywork. In addition to the late 80's lines, the hood clearly features something a bit different from the average car. What is it? More »

10:20 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,978 views, 54 comments

Latest by n/a: Holy NACA duct wheels batman! more »

custom cars

Zagato Creates Perfect Lancia Aprilia Sport Replica Using Only Photos

Sometimes a classic car is just so unattainable that you have to resort to replicas. That's easy if you want a fiberglass Cobra-esq roadster, but what about when the car you want doesn't have a kit readily available for you to order? What about if that 1937 Lancia you want doesn't have any documented engineering plans, and there's not a single original car remaining, anywhere? Well, back in 2006, Zagato decided they would take on such a challenge; building a perfect replica of the 1937 Lancia Aprilia Sport using only a few photographs.

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3:45 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Mark Arnold
1,525 views, 45 comments

Latest by teargas: @muleshoe: They are certainly expensive, but they're around. more »

geneva motor show

Bentley GTZ Zagato In Geneva

Having had its way with Italian cars, Zagato's coachworks business returned its attentions to a British-German hooligan — the Bentley Continental GT. (Remember the Zagato Aston DB7? Sure you do.) What they came up with is the two-tone Bentley GTZ Zagato we first showed you last week. As is their wont, Zagato made the Bent more curvilinear, with wide arcs where its blocky haunches used to be. No doubt Zagato wants more of this kind of business, but are there enough billionaires for those kinds of shenanigans?

5:40 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Mike Spinelli
1,336 views, 16 comments

Latest by n/a: elegante si... però basta con il neo-classico e con questo stile....bastaaaaaa...ormai è tutto già visto, gia detto e ridetto, spazio ai giovani!....i'm sorry...when i'm angry i speak italian :) more »

geneva motor show

Bentley Zagato GTZ Gets A Premature Unveil Before Geneva

The always embargo-breaking boys at the AutoWeek found only in the Netherlands have come across a couple of shots of the new Bentley Zagato GTZ. That's right, you heard us — the Zagato GTZ. Apparently the Bentley Continental GT wasn't quite ostentatious enough for the Italian tuning shop of Zagato, and like last year they've decided to bring a bit of blingasm with them. What they've come up with is a front fascia screaming "My god, I just ate a chain-link fence!" Supposedly we'll have more info on the GTZ this upcoming weekend. Of course that could just be Babelfish mistranslating again. For the moment you'll just have to feast your eyes on the three shots of this monstrosity of metal below.

(Hat tip to Sacha!) [via AutoWeek.nl]

Spy Photos

8:40 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Ray Wert
3,789 views, 30 comments

Latest by RS faux: Harada is at it again. Zagato is now the Anime car design house. No longer the elegant and innovative outfit of the Spada days. Very sad. more »

commenter of the day

Commenter of the Day: Sexual Innuendo Edition

If you're like me, you spend a lot of time wondering why women aren't as obsessed with cars as men. Logic would indicate that just as many women drive as men (at least in the US and Europe). Of course that same brand of logic would argue that men wear just as much clothing as women and I shouldn't start yawning when my girl puts on Project Runway. But, I do. That said, reading through today's Fantasy Garage provides some pretty convincing clues as to why Jezebel women want nothing to do with our 4-wheeled fetish. More »

5:45 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Jonny Lieberman
3,649 views, 39 comments

Latest by dominetta_vitali: i guess i'm the exception to the rule on this one. in elementary school, while the other girls were playing with barbies and planning their dream weddings, i was playing with matchbox cars and fantasizing about my dream garage. more »

jalopnik fantasy garage

Bonus Fantasy: DB4 GT Zagato Gallery

Frankly, I'm delighted by the enthusiasm on display in today's Fantasy Garage. Certain cars are simply that good. About a decade back I was given a book about Aston Martin DB4/5s by a pistonhead boss. It wasn't a raise, but I was dumb young enough to still be thrilled. As you can imagine, the pages on the DB4 GT Zagato are especially dog eared. Spada's bodywork is immortal — simply one of the greatest ever. To celebrate his masterpiece, here's some extra pics. Please enjoy.

3:15 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Jonny Lieberman
1,383 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Though this car was dinamically crap - or so I've heard - it's breathtaking, to say the least. Looks a lot like the Ferrari 250 SWB. more »

jalopnik fantasy garage

Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato

I believe there are certain things you can never have too many of. Good pairs of jeans and shoes. Pocket knives. Friends with pickup trucks. Real Mexican joints. Books. And of course, sports cars from the early 60s that competed at LeMans in your Fantasy Garage. We've already got the two best (the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe and the Ferrari 250 GTO, respectively) so let us now induct the most beautiful; the British/Italian hybrid Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato. More »

Feature

12:00 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Jonny Lieberman
7,443 views, 120 comments

Latest by n/a: Almost in. Italian design does not automatically mean 'instant get'. more »

la auto show

LA Auto Show: Spykers

You know what's hard? Having just one favorite supercar maker. Go ahead, say Ferrari and I'll park my Murcielago next to your 599 GTB, making the latter look like nothing but a shiny red Corvette with yellow horse stickers pasted all over it. Luckily we write about cars for a living, guaranteeing that not only will we soon be able to afford all the hot Italian metal we want, but our yacht will totally be able to handle a helicopter. Wow. We just went insane for a full minute. Well, a little mental slippage is to be expected. Seriously, you try hanging around this many Spykers and not getting your mind blown just a teensy bit. Surprisingly, we liked the relatively sorta sane C8 Spyder more than the howlin' at the moon C12 Zagato. But again, making rational decisions in this lofty realm is the stuff rich people have to worry about. We will say that the Aston Martins parked next door to Spykerland were absolutely invisible by comparison. A curiosity follows should you choose to jump.

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12:30 PM on Fri Nov 16 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
2,246 views, 31 comments

Latest by Trick: Just confirms that those with lots of money don't have lots of taste. more »

fakes

Eight-Legged Fraud: Zagato 575 GTZ "Spyder" a Fake

Zagato would like to inform you the supposed Zagato 575 GTZ Spyder is a fake. A rep from the venerable Italian design firm says the shot we ran earlier this week — the one that triggered some puzzled stares around the Jalopnik virtual campus — is an "illegally photoshopped" spec of the Zagato 575 GTZ coupe, a one-off coachbuilding project Zagato undertook for Japanese Ferrari collector Yushiyuki Hayashi. The prevailing cover story had Qvale Automotive Group — a US distributorship of exotic cars and entity behind the erstwhile, Ford-powered Qvale Mangusta — as the supposed distributor of the roofless rebody. Although we've always believed where there's smoke, there's fire, we still wouldn't bet on any of this panning out.

6:44 AM on Sat Sep 1 2007
By Mike Spinelli
836 views, 7 comments

Latest by Mike Spinelli: @Shapeshifter: I don't think anyone is, but thanks for asking. more »

pebble beach concours

Jalopnik Choice Award: 1959 Fiat Abarth Zagato 750

With the old fashioneds well emptied and the hoopla surrounding the Pebble Beach Concours moving into forgotten, it is now time to present the never prestigious Jalopnik Choice Award. This 1959 Fiat 600-based Abarth Zagato 750 is part of the San Diego Collection, and on the block for a 125K. The Karl "Carlo" Abarth worked 750cc engine kicks out 57 horsepower, which propels the double bubble top coupe to a top speed of 112 mph! Fun to drive invariably comes as part of car's 1200-pound curb weight. Style is courtesy of Zagato. The final bid on this as-yet-unsold car was 88K. We're hoping to find the 500-dollar restorable version hidden underneath seventy three boxes of old Sunset magazines at a Burbank garage sale. [Fiat Zagato via the San Diego Collection]

12:00 PM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
1,765 views, 13 comments

Latest by kurtdaniel1: @Clutch Disc Canada: Bulky one there. Design inspired from the body of chow yun Fat. But it was a good choice. The simplicity and uniqueness made it great. more »

not ugo dirkschneider

Zagato!

It's not as if we haven't enjoyed the designs that have flowed from the pens that led to bucks that led to wonderfully-formed sheetmetal that all began with the illustrious hand of Ugo Zagato some 88 years ago. But one of those moments where it all just really comes together — the tenth listen when the record one thought was really, really good the first time one hears it becomes an indelible part of one's soul, for example — happened while we were up in Monterey. Like most of our readers, we don't live with Zagato-designed vehicles as a part of our daily landscape as we do with say, Giugiaro machines. But the Zagatos were underfoot like a cat with a lackluster sense of danger wherever we turned on the Peninsula. And just like we get with weird cats, we're in love, love, love. [Zagato flickr pool]

2:15 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
561 views, 6 comments

Latest by al_beaton: Best of all - while most of the Carrozzeria are now either a) dead, b) owned by manufacturers, or c) only interested in volume work, Zagato is still happy to take your Centurion card and build you a bespoke car. I'm more »

choose your eternity

Project Car Hell: Zagato or Javelin?

Jalopnik readers- or at least the readers who bother to vote in our polls- have decreed that they'd be crazy enough to take on the awesome Purple Datsun 510 Limo over the slightly less awesome Bugamino in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity matchup. But let's say we're willing to jack up the cost of admission to a Hell Project- not a whole bunch, but closer to two grand than one. What then? Of course, since we all know the cost of the car itself is one of the least expensive parts of Project Car Hell, a few hundred bucks for the car itself isn't really all that significant.

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5:30 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By Murilee Martin
3,174 views, 50 comments

Latest by yenvalmar: I actually owned a 73 amx project car and did perform a 401 swap, though nevr got around to the transmission. AMC parts are not nearly as copious as you would think. not all dumb american V-8s are made equal, more »

put me in, coach

Zagato Diatto GT Ottovù to Enter Series Production

The Diatto GT Ottovù may not have topped our list of hottest concept cars at the Geneva auto show this past year, but those who can see past a few dated swoops of the pen will soon be able to snag one of 99 units to be produced. The revival of the Diatto brand is a milestone for Italian motoring — that brand being one of the country's oldest — and Zagato's design plays it to the hilt. The metallic-green Diatto GT Ottovù prototype was unveiled in Geneva and subsequently at the Villa d'Este Concorso d'Eleganza (gesundheit). Power comes from a Ford-sourced 4.6-liter V8 jointly tuned by Roush and Cosworth. It produces 530 hp in base form, but a few undisclosed tweaks will bring it to 650 hp. The new Diatto is building a dealer network in the US and Europe. No word on price, but there's no doubt the usual suspects will step up, checkbook in hand. [Italiaspeed via AutoBlog]

11:31 AM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Mike Spinelli
374 views, 9 comments

Latest by offyatindy: Oops...I don't know how I missed it, what with the Porsche ad in the next column....It's got Porsche Cayenne schnoz grille air inlets, which would make it a Jaguaracayennabmwlamborghinmiurabuickrivierati....If you look at it closely, I am sure there are more more »

not spiked, just held

Spyker C12 Zagato Delayed

Things aren't sounding so rosy in the house that Victor Muller built. Spyker's putting the hyper-spendy C12 Zagato on hold for the moment to focus on building the slightly-less-hyper-spendy models already in production. Customers who have already pre-ordered examples of the 24-unit run will shortly be notified by mail. [Motor Authority via Autoblog]

10:15 PM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
514 views, 1 comment

custom cars

More Photos: Maserati GS Zagato at Villa d'Este

Zagato's retromodern reskin of the Maserati GranSport Spyder, the Maserati GS Zagato, is getting a once-over by crowds at Italy's Villa d'Este Concorso d'Eleganza this weekend. The car was tailor made for Italian custom-kitchen king Paolo Boffi, a fan of the mad-hot 1954 Maserati A6 G Zagato. Zagato's released new fashion shots of the couture coupe at the Villa, along with early design renderings of the GS. Opinion may be split, but whatever you think of it, we really do need more cars that look like this — not fewer. – Mike Spinelli More »

2:27 PM on Sun Apr 22 2007
By Mike Spinelli
800 views, 14 comments

Latest by Turboner: @jonnylieberman: Harbor Freight has a parking lot? I thought their stuff just gets magically piped from www.harborfreight.co to your house through a series of oddly-shaped tubes? more »

custom cars

First Look: The Maserati GS Zagato IRL

The first shots of Zagato's coachbuilt GranSport coupe surfaced on Ultimate Car Page yesterday, providing the first look at the kind of exclusivity one custom-kitchen magnate's fortune can buy. Designers did work in the all-important helmet bubbles, though appear to have gotten a little curvilinear happy, like they'd just gotten a new pair of compasses and couldn't wait to get to work. Still, the commissioned piece does have some compelling side surfacing and a decent interpretation of the historic trident nose. Does it compare to the new Pininfarina-penned Maserati Grand Turismo? Hmm. – Mike Spinelli More »

7:49 AM on Fri Apr 20 2007
By Mike Spinelli
524 views, 5 comments

Latest by Gromit: Everything behind the A-pillar's great. Everything in front of it's awful. more »

custom cars

Flying Coach: The Maserati GS Zagato

Another year, another italian motorcar reskinned by Zagato. This time, it's been commissioned by Paolo Boffi, Italian custom-kitchen magnate. He's employed the Zagato team to work up his Maserati GS Spyder. The de rigeur historical antecedent is the Maserati A6 G Zagato of 1954, a car whose period sexiness is likely irreproducible. Still, Zagato is giving its best attempt in the GS, which will debut at the Concours d'Elegance Villa d'Este next week. Will it capture the original magic, or wind up looking like a slick appliance in a Milanese loft building? Stay tuned. – Mike Spinelli More »

6:51 PM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By Mike Spinelli
1,201 views, 5 comments

Latest by lascauxcaveman: No pictures of the front end? Is this the automotive equivalent of the hot chick who only remains a hot chick if if viewed from behind? more »

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