Milan design house Zagato's never done a hypercar (granted, a fairly new term), but it's on its way to penning its first production hypercar—if you can call a 19-car run "production". The Capricorn 01 Zagato Tutto Rosso doesn't count toward that 19-car total because it's still deemed a prototype, but it looks pretty well finished to us. And if you can afford it, you can probably also afford to get it street-legal, somehow.
This hypercar prototype already has an unnamed owner who commissioned it, with the car set to make its debut this weekend at the prestigious Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este car show on Italy's Lake Como. The 01 Zagato is in the spirit of purist hypercars like the Gordon Murray T.50 and Koenigsegg Jesko, with a 9000-rpm supercharged 5.2-liter Ford V-8 good for "more than" 900 horsepower and a manual transmission. That transmission is a dogleg five-speed, but when you've only got a claimed 2647 pounds of dry weight against 900 hp, maybe you can spare a ratio or two. As you might expect, there's a lot of carbon fiber—the tub, body, and much of the interior are carbon.
And in the case of the Tutto Rosso–"all red" in Italian—that carbon fiber was tinted red. The company says that 95 percent of the car's visible surfaces are red. If you think you have a favorite color, safe to say you don't like it as much as this 01 Zagato owner likes red.
The Capricorn 01 Zagato's base price is $3,344,000 at the current exchange rate, and if that's too rich for your blood, don't worry about it—the 01 Zagato is homologated for the EU, but not the U.S. market. There are ways around that (like the Show and Display route), but maybe you can just keep it at your pied-à-terre in Monaco.
Ezra Dyer is a Car and Driver senior editor and columnist. He's now based in North Carolina but still remembers how to turn right. He owns a 2009 GEM e4 and once drove 206 mph. Those facts are mutually exclusive.
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