Spyker Zagato (It's here, and it's...weird?)

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Victor Muller, CEO of Spyker Cars, and Andrea Zagato, CEO of Zagato, unveiled the Spyker C12 Zagato at the 77th Geneva International Motor Show in 2007. Norihiko Harada, Zagato’s Automotive Chief Designer, and Muller co-operated closely to design this limited edition of 24 sports cars to be delivered from March 2008 onwards. The world première of this ultra-exclusive version of the C12 range celebrates Spyker’s entry into the world of Formula One and marks the first integration of design elements and styling cues from the Spyker F8-VII Formula One car into the Spyker road car range. This point was underlined by the unveiling of the car being performed by Spyker’s Formula One race driver, Adrian Sutil.

The Spyker C12 Zagato is an all aluminium rear wheel drive sports car, based on the Spyker C12 Spyder. The C12 is powered by the 6.0 liter, 12 cylinder, 500 bph W12 engine from Volkswagen AG and accelerates from 0-100 km (0-60 mph) in 3.8 seconds. The Spyker C12 Zagato is equipped with a six-speed manual or automatic gear box with F1 style shifting, Chronoswiss instruments and a Zagato designed full leather interior with brushed aluminium instrument panel. The C12 Zagato has an aluminium body with stainless steel roof rails and has many F1 derived design details such as an F1 nose, air scoop, chimneys, mirrors, rain light, fuel flap and diffuser. It has a panoramic roof that features the Double Bubble, a typical Zagato style element. The Spyker C12 Zagato has a length of 4.5 m, a width of 2.02 m excluding mirrors, a height of 1.25 m and weighs 1480 kg. The fuel tank capacity is 70 litres (15.4 gallons). Top speed is 310 km/h (193 mph).

“The Spyker and Zagato Atelier brands perfectly align because of their common aeronautical origins and because of the shared passion of Victor Muller and myself for sports cars” states Andrea Zagato. “Nevertheless Victor, before starting this extraordinary adventure with Spyker, was a Zagato collector owning cars like the Flaminia SS and TZ. Together with our neo-classical approach, this Spyker C12 Zagato shows the capabilities of Zagato Atelier for innovative and non conventional solutions.”

Norihiko Harada, designer of the new Spyker C12 Zagato, adds: “All Spyker cars have their own very unique style: the aeronautical retrospective style co-exists with craftsmanship and elegance. The new Zagato body becomes even more unique, aggressive and sensual at the same time. It features a new double bubble panoramic roof, F1 influenced nose and air intakes, chimney and a “coda tronca”, the typical Zagato cut off tail end. Maintaining Spyker’s styling philosophy, Zagato design put all these elements together and created an extremely stimulating example of contemporary exotic high performance sports car by using typical modern Zagato lines which started from the Raptor Zagato in 1996.”
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Quite the ugly duckling, really.
 
That is definately one of the most ugliest cars I've ever seen. That thing is truely dreadful.
 
I love it. I think the normal Spyker is ugly as hell, and this is way better. It's so good I can hardly notice all the cliche F1 styling cues.
 
I don't think it is that bad overall, but certainly not one of the better-looking sports cars on the market. If anything, it reminds me of the old Bugatti EB110 (or whatever it was called)...

But if there is a lesson to pull out of this, it is that marijuana + car design = not so good of an idea.
 
And they call this a Spyker? I'm sorry, I'm not getting it. That is NOT a Spyker. Too ugly, too un-Spyker-like.

Quick re-hab:
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AAHHHH... :)
 
I don't think it looks as bad as you guys are making it out to be, but maybe that's just me. I was going to say that Spykers aren't really that beautiful as it is, but I can't say it after seeing the one above.

Edit: Is the one above even real or a photochop? Its odd to have those sort of windows on a roadster.
 
Compared to the previous road-going Spkyers, this is sort of what I expected: Lots of ducts.
 
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I don't think it looks as bad as you guys are making it out to be, but maybe that's just me. I was going to say that Spykers aren't really that beautiful as it is, but I can't say it after seeing the one above.

Edit: Is the one above even real or a photochop? Its odd to have those sort of windows on a roadster.
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I agree, it's not a pretty car but it's not close to the ugliest car ever. It's not actually that bad imo, just a bit weird in places.

Yes that picture is a Proper Spyker.
 
When I first saw the Spyker C8 I thought it was ugly. After a little while I started to like it and now I think its beautiful. Maybe this is one of those cars that you grow to like.
 
I'm torn. The details are infinitely better than on the normal car. The overall shape is as well. The rear? Not so much. Though I wouldn't call it bad, per se.
 
Holy...what is going on at the back? From the front I like it a lot, even if the nose resembles an MC12 that's had its cheeks pinched. The rear though...I mean seriously, what was the designer thinking? :yuck:
 
Oh wow! I love it!

It's refreshingly different.
 
The only thing I like is that they implemented Formula 1 lines.

However, that's probably also why the design looks ugly.
 
I don't know why people think strange designs like this are ugly. People like the Zonda's rear end don't they? I quite like this car.
 
side profile is ok, front and rear are fugly. Sorry but that is NOT a Spyker. Gimmie the ordinary car anyday.
 
I guess I would like it a bit better if it was toned down a bit and not called a Spyker. That is the most disgraceful fact about it.
 
Y'know, after spending some more time looking at it, I can't say it's an utter failure. From the front and front 3/4, the proportions are looking good and I can even look past some of the detailing (chimneys, ugh), and the super cheap rims. But the back is just monumentally hideous, and combined with the rims, I can't love it. I can't even like it.

Then again, I wasn't a huge fan of the recent Astons either from Zagato. They were good... but the base was so perfect to begin with.
 
Not a pretty car but I would call it a designer's car
I like all kinds of detail they are trying to imitate Formula 1 yet not very obvious
I have to agree the rear is quite ugly, specially the taillights being too thick
the rims are bad as well, I would much rather have the original Spyker rims
anyhow I quite like the car overall, at least more than the Ferrari and Aston Martin they have done

edit: Anyone remember MR2 VM180 Zagato? Yuck!
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I really like the look of this car. Looks agressive and sleek. Of course I was never a big fan of the other Spykers. Chop off the mohawk in the back and I believe we might have one sexy car on our hands!
 

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