Photo: RM Sotheby's
Once in a while, the Zagato design house joins hands with Aston Martin to produce achingly beautiful machines. The V12 Zagato, which was introduced in 2011, is a nod to the historic relationship that binds the Italian and British companies together.
Only 61 road-legal units of the V12 Zagato were ever made. The car featured in the adjacent photos bears a plaque that reads “No. Zero,” which is a guarantee that no other V12 Zagato is as special as this bad boy here.
According to RM Sotheby’s, this is a one-of-a-kind car that was blessed with the Aston Martin’s chief creative officer personal input. Slated to go under the hammer next year at RM Sotheby’s Paris sale in February, No. Zero” is gifted with chassis number 31235 and a helluva lot of one-off details.
Take the badge reigning on the hood as a case in point. Believe it or not, Aston Martin’s designers crafted it from scarab beetle wings. As the auction house points out, “this design is completely unique and has often been requested by other owners, but it will never again be repeated.”
It’s rather clear, then, that this V12 Zagato took more than the 2,000 man hours to complete, which is five times as long as for a V12 Vantage. The pictured V12 Zagato also happens to be a low-mileage example with only one owner from new, the odo showing just 7,136 kilometers (4,434 miles).
The 5.9-liter blunderbuss hiding under the sexy hood churns out 510 horsepower (517 PS) and 420 pound-feet (570 Nm), all that harrumph being sent to the rear wheels via a manual transmission. Roadholding, meanwhile, is superlative thanks to all-round independent double wishbone suspension.
Whereas the One-77 spawned 77 copies, the V12 Zagato is rarer still. Of the 65 units ever produced, two are race prototypes, two pre-production mules, and the remaining examples were sold to whoever had £396,000 to spare. “No. Zero” here, however, will fetch a lot more than that at auction.
According to RM Sotheby’s, this is a one-of-a-kind car that was blessed with the Aston Martin’s chief creative officer personal input. Slated to go under the hammer next year at RM Sotheby’s Paris sale in February, No. Zero” is gifted with chassis number 31235 and a helluva lot of one-off details.
Take the badge reigning on the hood as a case in point. Believe it or not, Aston Martin’s designers crafted it from scarab beetle wings. As the auction house points out, “this design is completely unique and has often been requested by other owners, but it will never again be repeated.”
It’s rather clear, then, that this V12 Zagato took more than the 2,000 man hours to complete, which is five times as long as for a V12 Vantage. The pictured V12 Zagato also happens to be a low-mileage example with only one owner from new, the odo showing just 7,136 kilometers (4,434 miles).
The 5.9-liter blunderbuss hiding under the sexy hood churns out 510 horsepower (517 PS) and 420 pound-feet (570 Nm), all that harrumph being sent to the rear wheels via a manual transmission. Roadholding, meanwhile, is superlative thanks to all-round independent double wishbone suspension.
Whereas the One-77 spawned 77 copies, the V12 Zagato is rarer still. Of the 65 units ever produced, two are race prototypes, two pre-production mules, and the remaining examples were sold to whoever had £396,000 to spare. “No. Zero” here, however, will fetch a lot more than that at auction.
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