Wednesday 6th April 2011

Spada Codatronca Monza: Track Special Revealed

DB4 Zagato designer's latest project leaked ahead of Monaco debut

---

Fancy a roofless track car with a 210mph top speed, a 7.0-litre Corvette V8 and design by the man who did the DB4 GT Zagato, the Lancia Flaminia Super Sport and Alfa Giulia TZ (among others, but we'll forget the Fiat Tipo)?

Course you do, and now you can have one, in the form of the Spada Codatronca Monza. Provided you've got around £250k spare to spend on this exclusive track toy, that is.

The car, which is essentially a roofless version of the Codatronca coupe that was unveiled in 2007, is to be officially unveiled at the Top Marques show in Monaco in a couple of weeks, but these images have been leaked onto the web ahead of time.

What the pictures reveal is that the Monza gets a chopped Perspex windscreen (goggles or a lid might be a help there) and twin roll-over humps. What the pictures don't reveal are the twin superchargers, which makes the Monza good for 700bhp and 0-62mph in around 3.0secs. Which might make that £250k asking price a little easier to swallow...

[chazwozza]

Looks like a happy frog at the front!

[Fetchez la vache]

Wow. Like the look of that. Doesn't suffer from the "challenging" looks of the coupe.

[Weatherman]

What I want to know is does it still have the external rear-mounted speedometer as the coupe?

[sootyrumble]

its been a while since i have seen something that has made me want it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think the last thing was Salma Hayek in from Dusk Till Dawn

[Fluffsri]

Now that is nice! Not 100% sure about the back end but I wouldnt be looking at it so not too bothered

[stew-S160]

Holy moly! WANT!

[harryowl]

[RJDM3]

Yummy

[louismchuge]

[MogulBoy]

Yum!

[Squabbler]

Coupe is much better looking

[P4ROT]

Weatherman said:

What I want to know is does it still have the external rear-mounted speedometer as the coupe?

+1 hope that idea hasn't caught on......

[DaveR]

In the unlikely event of a black one reversing towards you, you could be forgiven for thinking Batman's just pitched up.

[Snoggledog]

So the designer comes up with DB4 GT Zagato, the Lancia Flaminia Super Sport, Alfa Giulia TZ then follows up with that monstrosity? WTF has he been smoking?

[OwenK]

Not sure what everyone's on about - love the back end, but the front end is somewhat... challenging?

Is it a coincedence it bears a striking resemblance to a silver kit car I can't remember the name of (I want to say Fulcrum)?

[irvined]

When I first saw the pic, I thought it was the Fulcrum, looks great (so does the Fulcrum)

[ChipsAndCheese]

My first thought was that they have definitely taken more than a little inspiration from Lamborghini when designing the front.

The rear (and those performance figures) looks insane though!

[seagrey]

Stupid name,sounds like something a Roman prostitute would be called.

[bobberz]

Like this, but uglier:




I know which one I'd rather have, though with the GM V8, the Spada is probably more reliable...

[kiteless]

Snoggledog said:

So the designer comes up with DB4 GT Zagato, the Lancia Flaminia Super Sport, Alfa Giulia TZ then follows up with that monstrosity? WTF has he been smoking?

It is a little different to the original Zagato Giulietta Coda Tronca, I must admit