The recent unearthing of a delivery-mileage Porsche 959 Sport seemed at the time like a pretty neat find - and it was - but it might have been aced within the same month.
A prominent collector of cars (we can't say who, but the car is currently in Singapore and the owner is minted. Super, super minted...) is selling some of the cars which he never gets to drive,
and this Cizeta is one of them
As is almost commonplace with this kind of car nobody knows exactly how many were actually built, although the figure of just three right hand drive examples doesn't appear to be disputed.
The Cizeta has been discussed on the PH forum before and the full history lesson can be read in the advert', but in brief designer Marcello Gandini came up with the car you see here for Lamborghini to build as the Diablo, but Chrysler stuck their oar in and altered his design causing Mr Gandini to form the Cizeta company with an Italian Ferrari dealer. It didn't work out and only a handful were ever built (10 seems to be the most popular estimate).
Sadly, like the 959 this car will probably be driven little, if at all, but at least you could take the 959 to a Porsche dealer for parts and servicing. Some parts on the Cizeta will be shared with the Lamborghini Diablo, and the magnificent V16 engine (
which can be heard here
) is fundamentally two Ferrari V8s on a common crankcase so servicing might not actually be a total nightmare, but the likelihood is that it will be stored away somewhere.
That's a pity, because it sounds wonderful doesn't it?
The asking price works out at £316,700 for this never-before-registered Cizeta. Depending upon how you look at it that's either a realistic price for such a rare and exotic machine, or a hell of a lot of money for an ornament.