Tuesday 24th February 2009

Zagato Perana Z-One

Sketches and renderings of pretty new GT concept

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Zagato has penned the svelte lines of another potential Geneva showstopper, the rakish Perana Z-One coupe.

Apparently a collaboration between Zagato and South Africa’s Perana Performance Group, the coachbuilt Z-One is destined for limited production with a run of 999 cars planned.

Details are likely to remain sketchy until show time, but it seems the two seat coupe bodies will be hand built in Italy by Zagato before being crated and shipped to South Africa. There, they will be mated to GM Corvette underpinnings by Perana, a company with long history of performance tuning in the region.

With 6.2 litre Corvette LS3 V8 power, and at least 440bhp, we expect strong performance and a 0-62mph time of around 4secs from the Z-One.

PH hasn’t spoken to Perana in South Africa, but sources have reportedly told Car and Driver magazine that the company aspires to become ‘the new TVR’. Which C&D generously took to mean Perana hopes ‘to emulate TVR’s performance-focused, lightweight products, rather than its endless corporate tumult’!

We expect to bring you details of the Z-One next week from Geneva. Meanwhile check out the rendered artwork from Zagato.

 

[bikemonster]

I will abuse the first post. Instead of just posting "First!" I will add...

The Perana name has been bought out by Jimmy Price in Port Elizabeth, on the east coast of Brightest Africa. Jimmy Price's Superformance builds (among other things) Nobles.

As you were....

[Al 450]

[Lucozade]

Definate design cues from TVRs. Very much like the Tuscan. Good choice of engine too.

Good luck to them in the current climate.

[Toma500]

MMM nice

[c0ldpl4ya]

thats hot as. Reminds me of a ferrari 599 for some reason

[MarkoTVR]

Very nice, like that a lot. Let's hope the engineering underneath is as good as the styling on top of it.

[louismchuge]

That looks amazing. Sounds like a well planned project too

[Insight]

I'd aspire to own one!

[sprinter885]

c0ldpl4ya said:

thats hot as. Reminds me of a ferrari 599 for some reason

VERY similar .

[V6Alfisti]

The roofline and tear drop windows remind me a lot of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione.

Very nice

Edit: and the intake on the wing, positioning of the line going across the door/wing

Edited by V6Alfisti on Tuesday 24th February 13:17

[motormania]

That is just pure filth - autopornograpghy at it's worst...

I LOVE IT

[Wadeski]

The pricing will be the life or death of them. Mid 30s, and its all golden. Mid forties or even fifties and they stand no chance.

[louismchuge]

Spot on with the 8C remark - perhaps with a grand turismo front end?

[oagent]

I love look. reminds me of the Ferrari 575 Zagato..
Great choice to build it on the Vette platform too. Count me in for one if I can steal a few hundred grand from a pension fund or two

[john_r]

Will not happen, or if it does it will look very different to that.

All of the main markets that this will be aimed at have strict regulations for new road cars. A run of 999 production cars means it will not be accepted as a kit car in any Western market (or South Africa) and will have to go through full safety testing. The pedestrian-shredding front end alone at that height and with that design will fail before it even comes off the drawing board...

Does look fecking stunning though! Even it won't look anything like that IF it ever gets produced.

[Snoggledog]

Normally I loath most of Zagatos creations but that one ticks all the right boxes for me.

[Aowhs102]

oagent said:

I love look. reminds me of the Ferrari 575 Zagato..

I was thinking the DB7 Zagato... from the rear anyway.

[Ed.]

Is there still a way around all the european crash testing for low volume manufacturers?

[Mole]

[quote=john_r].. "Will not happen, or if it does it will look very different to that."

Think you will find that it "will happen", and it will not look "very different". At the Geneva Show it might even look better !

Mole

Edited by Mole on Tuesday 24th February 15:21

[fuoriserie]

Ed. said:

Is there still a way around all the european crash testing for low volume manufacturers?

yep........just do a rebody on an exhisting chassis, like in this case, a Corvette chassis, it's now the third Corvette, used by independente designers, to base their bespoke one-off cars.

Look at the Spada Codatronca and the Aznom by Castagna......I know two more independent designers working on simiar concepts, so you will see a few more based on the Corvette platform in the coming months.....

Edited by fuoriserie on Tuesday 24th February 15:20